Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Fans still remember the dreadful news of Alliance being cancelled. We all cried and wanted to zat everybody around..we still do
Now, we want to beat up even more people for we are excited! Kree! Hallowed are cute and short sci-fi chicks!
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and Firesky are in force at this week’s San Diego [...]
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon university, died yesterday of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 47.
A few weeks ago, Gavin and I watched his last lecture, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, and it was a nice experience. This guy knew he was going to die, yet he was happy to give a last lecture in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Rest in peace, Randy Pausch”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/26/rest-in-peace-randy-pausch/” });
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
jeyoung posted a photo:

FIRST attempt at manual exposure with Makinon 135mm f/2.8.
ISO 800 1/30s f/2.8

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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I will be succinct: Watch “Into The Wild” as it’s one of the most beautiful and breathtaking movies ever…
For those who have some time, let me tell you that Kyan, Anya, Christina and I watched Into The Wild yesterday and we were mesmerized. Here’s the plot (courtesy of IMDB):
After graduating from Emory University, top student [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Into The Wild”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/25/into-the-wild/” });
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
[rant]
Why doesn’t Quicktime has a f.cking language option? When I download Quicktime through its website, everything looks normal. Everything in English, even when I click on the installation process.
However, once the bloody thing is completely installed and you click it open, IT’S IN FRIGGING CHINESE!!!!!
QUICKTIME/APPLE BLOODY HELL, I KNOW IN CHINA MOST PEOPLE WILL [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
2 more weeks and it will be the Olympics in Beijing. But I don’t feel anything about it. I can’t care any less.
I’m getting more and more sluggish at work. Need to pull myself to complete the June accounts asap.
A distant auntie wants to introduce me to a girl in Shanghai because an uncle apparently [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I am a fanatic user of Last.fm. Whenever I listen to a song either on my MacBook or my iPod, this information is sent to the Last.fm service which dynamically creates the chart shown above. It shows the artists I’ve been listening to during the past week. Here is what I feel about some of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What I am currently listening to…”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/24/what-i-am-currently-listening-to/” });
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
A promotional trailer for SCI FI Channel’s upcoming prequel movie of Battlestar Galactica; Caprica, has gone live on SCIFI.COM.
It is very different from BSG. There are no space ships battles. It’s a drama, and the set is in the past of BSG but still appears to be futuristic. I look forward to know more about [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Silverlight is the big thing right now, esp. in usable animated display (I stress on the word “usable,” - think in the line of DeepZoom) in replacing AJAX and working alongside AJAX (there was a time when one would have said “payback is a bitch.” Now, it’s “postback is a bitch.”) and of course to [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
When I started implementing mod_rewrite in websites I had a problem in PHP as how to make a SEO friendly URL. All tutorials were geared towards how to implement mod_rewrite, about modifying .htaccess files, but none treated how to make the urls friendly with dynamic content. For example I have a news section which are [...]
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