Just a moment ago I was reading about the black art that is new molecule discovery, and I realized that the story in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban about the Boggart in the wardrobe is an interesting allegory for science.
What comes out of the box depends an awful lot on what you are [...]
Archive for April, 2005
The Mischievious Black Box
24Apr05At my most futuristic
23Apr05So, I spent my Friday night rewriting Moda from scratch in Windows. Actually, I don’t think I used any Windows-specific code, so it should run out of the box on Mono, but I haven’t tested it.
Why did I rewrite it? I have been thinking about this architecture in terms of sinks and sources, [...]
IU Informatics and Open Source
21Apr05Open Source Software is, generally speaking, code written by volunteers to “scratch an itch”. Someone wants a weblog, but none of the commercial ones work with their picture album, so they write WordPress, for example. There are a lot of well known examples of open source software: Mozilla Firefox, Linux, Apache, and OpenOffice [...]
Quick Update
20Apr05My Mom and Dad came to visit this weekend, and we had a really spectacular time. We went to the little 500 on Saturday, which was a really unique experience, a little Bloomington culture and a great opportunity to chat and spend some time outside. I made a Chicken Saag curry, and we [...]
I find April 15th is a good day to reflect on all aspects of my life, good and bad. Here’s the top of that list:
Good: My federal taxes are in
Bad: The IRS audits these things sometimes
Good: I got a great job for the summer
Bad: I’m not going to be able to do everything I [...]
Oops
13Apr05Bad news today: my PDA crashed. It still boots, but many applications seemed to have been wiped away entirely. I am able to access the hard disk, but most of the data has been wiped, and what is left is somewhat corrupted.
Dead PDA
Still, I should be thankful. Most other PDAs wouldn’t even [...]
Summer days, summer nights
13Apr05I have some great news to report: assuming enought students sign up, I am going to be teaching I300 (Intro to HCI Design) this summer! It took a decent amount of persistence on my part, but it was worth every bit of it. This is my #1 job choice for this summer: it [...]
Thought
12Apr05There are things that are good about being a kid, and there are things that suck about being a kid. One of the blessings of having a bad memory is that the bad things tend to evaporate, leaving only the good ones behind. One of the good things about being perpetually dissatisfied with [...]
