Aside from reading a pretty good article of Paul Graham today about startups, I was checking out Dojo Toolkit since I have had multiple urge to put more Javascript toolkit under my belt. Either that or I was trying to write some neat banner rotation ^_^.
As I dutifully read through Dojo spotlight and example page, I came across this demonstration of their tookit. I found myself laughing so hard. Putting sharp similarity as a way to say: "hey we rock that too" is just genius. Thanks Dojo. I thinking I am ready to try you guys out.
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Hardy Heron and Fedora 8
It is about 10 more days until Ubuntu officially launches its newest version: Hardy Heron. As always, I try to get my foot into the repository before the launch date so that I won't get bogged down when everyone is downloading the new update in frenzy. I had my x86_64 Ubuntu upgraded to Hardy without any hiccup. I barely notice anything new aside from a newly available theme that looks nicer to the eye. The bootsplash image got a little change but aside from that, my Ubuntu box is still humming away.
I thought "Meh". So today, I downloaded Fedora Core 8 and install it as one of my virtual machines. One thing that I notice about Fedora is that its installation wizard looks really sleek and polished. I have no problem understanding that it says. The choice of font and color blends very well too. After the smooth installation, I have a fully working Fedora Core desktop. The default selection of software is the same as Ubuntu and the menus are the same. I played around with it for a while and came to the conclusion that Fedora Core is an rpm-Ubuntu with blue theme ^_^.
For fans of each project, I see little need to switch over or to declare superiority over the other. I am glad that they are constantly improving the user experience. Now, if only I would get some decent software, it would be great. Here is my wishlist
- new Office product that gets a face lift
- a decent photo organizer (at least on par with Picasa). Either that or Picasa should just port their version.
Linux, rocks on.
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Intype is dead
Have the right tools makes all the difference. OS X users have been enjoying Textmate for a while. For Windows users, you can use e-text editor. I used to use a different text editor called InType. It has quite a few nice features that does make typing code a much more pleasurable activity. However, I have not seen them releasing any new code for a while. The last activity was back in August of 2007. That was more than 6 months ago. Too bad E already got the finish line and reached that usable point of software. Sorry Intype. You should have tried harder.
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The cost of going to school
When people talk about the cost of going to school, they talk about tuition, fees, books, ... I keep it simple and represent you below the cost of going to school (literally).
I happen to keep a Google Spreadsheet of the miles that I travelled plus the gas and money I spend at each pump. I compile everything into this little chart which tells me exactly how much it cost for me to travel to school from home each day. I used to average out abuot $5 per day (that's gas only). However, since I started travelling with my girlfriend, we cut down the cost tremendously. This is probably because she pays for the gas most of the time. I do pay for the rest of the stuff but I will have to keep myself from disclosing the graph for that one ^_^. The blue line is my MPG by the way. It is not the best but I guess it is decent for the cheap car that I am driving.
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NSM 2008-2009 Scholarship recipients have been announced. Congratulations to these great students, I am sure they have worked very hard for it and they deserve this financial assistance. Although I did not make it this year, I believe that I have not worked as hard as last year. Hopefully I will work harder this year and receive this honor. This leads me to another thought: what would count as good volunteer work?
- Google Summer of Code?
- Opensource project of some kind
- Persuade Dr. K to release BibSync
- Write an awesome app for GPhone or iPhone
There are actually many things that I can do in life. I would never have enough time to do them all. I guess I should focus on what matters the most to me right now: get smart and get my PhD.
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TinyMCE has a nice plugin called Insert Youtube that automatically insert the youtube video into your post. This plugin works well, however, you will need to add the following snippets into the list of valid_elements:
param[name|value|_value],
The next step will be to make this blog use syntaxhighlighter. That would be super sweet.
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