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Archive for May, 2007

A Cool Way to Share Stuff You Find on the Web

Do you ever come across a paragraph/image/video on a Web page and want to share it with others but don’t want to spend much time and effort to do so? I came across ClipMarks that makes this really easy. This tool is installed as an extension to either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
You simply click [...]

My Take on the Phoenix Suns Controversy

If the NBA is going to follow the letter of the law (as they did by suspending Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for leaving the bench after Robert Horry’s cheap shot), they should also suspend Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen for leaving the bench in an earlier dispute.
Stu Jackson (the NBA’s lead official) said it [...]

Comprehensive Exams

This week was important for me because I passed my comprehensive exams for the first year of school! This means I am officially a PhD student.
The first was a written test that took 12 hours to complete. (It wasn’t supposed to take so long, but they were experimenting with a new test format, and it [...]

Being an Adult

“[One] way to tell an adult is by how they react to a challenge. Someone who’s not yet an adult will tend to respond to a challenge from an adult in a way that acknowledges their dominance. If an adult says ‘that’s a stupid idea,’ a kid will either crawl away with his tail between [...]

How to Go Far

Today in a lecture I heard about an old African proverb about collaborating with other people: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”