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Links for 2006-05-31
( Cool Sites )
CERN Conversion Service
Convert various formats to PDF online for free.
(tags: web)
I Passed!!!
My PhD committee passed me after my defense today. Thanks to everyone who wrote emails of encouragement…I got over 30 of them. Now, I just need to make their suggested revisions and I’ll be able to deposit. Here’s a picture of Julie and Jim Davison’s kids, Thomas and Claire, wishing me good [...]
Links for 2006-05-29
( Cool Sites )
welcome | irrepressible.info
Site that tries to circumvent censorship by encouraging many sites to place code for dynamic snippets of text that oppresive governments try to censor.
(tags: web)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Crime (Cell Phone Security)
(tags: security)
Clemson Baseball Rocks!
Our alma mater, Clemson University, has the number one seed overall in the College Baseball World Series this year. Go Tigers! Hopefully this year the post-season will be kinder to them than it has been in years past.
Smug Alert
I saw the South Park episode this week entitled Smug Alert! (Wikipedia episode summary). Hilarious. Basically, one of the characters gets a hybrid car and immediately becomes “smug”. He thinks he’s better than everyone else and starts always talking with his eyes closed. When he decides South Park is too backwards [...]
Dover, Pennsylvania Better Look Out
If Pat Robertson has a vendetta against Dover, Pennsylvania, they should be extra scared now. Not only did God leave their city in response to school board election, but thanks to his “Age-Defying Shake”, it looks like Pat now has the physical superpowers to single-handedly wipe the city out of existence:
Did you know that [...]
Summing Up Four Years of Work in Two Hours
You know your thesis defense is official when it goes in the weekly CS Calendar email:
Wednesday, May 31
469A CSL, 10:00a.m.
FINAL EXAMINATION OF MATTHEW MILLER FOR THE DOCTOR’S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
His thesis is entitled “Energy Efficiency and Security for Multihop Wireless Network”
Members of his committee are:
Prof. Nitin Vaidya(Chair/Director),
Prof. Klara Nahrstedt,
Prof. Jennifer Hou,
Prof. Indranil Gupta
Links for 2006-05-25
( Cool Sites )
htaccess Generator
Site the generates a .htaccess file based on chosen options.
(tags: security web)
Links for 2006-05-22
( Cool Sites )
Seen On Slash | The best comments ever seen on Slashdot
(tags: lists)
New York Liberals are the Model of “Tolerance”
John McCain give a commencement speech at the New School in New York. Audience members whose views are to the left of him give a new definition of “tolerance”:
No sooner had Mr. Kerrey welcomed the audience to the university’s 70th commencement than the hoots began to rise through the Theater at Madison Square Garden. [...]
Comments Working Now
( Matt's Posts )
I was just alerted that comments haven’t been working since the website upgrade last weekend. It was an over-aggressive spam plug-in that I hadn’t checked. I disabled it (there’s still a couple more spam filters in effect), so everything should be working fine now (I tested in IE 6 and Firefox 1.5). [...]
Part 1: Why You Should Have Started Saving for Retirement Yesterday
( Matt's Posts )
Say I want to drive to Chicago, which is a couple of hours away, and I need to be there by noon. There are a couple of considerations I must take into account if I want to reach this deadline. First, what time will I leave Champaign and, second, how fast can I [...]
Those Pesky Approval Ratings
Here’s a well-written essay that is probably indicative of why Bush’s approval ratings are so low: An Apology from a Bush Voter.
I’m saying today, I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than [...]
Links for 2006-05-18
( Cool Sites )
Pod CityGuides
City guides for over 300 cities formatting for iPods.
(tags: ipod)
popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz
Has feeds from some of the major news, tech, and multimedia web sources all on one page.
(tags: directory rss)
ChipIn
Automates money collection for the giving of group gifts.
(tags: finance)
Personal Finance Intro and Disclaimer
( Matt's Posts )
From time to time, friends will ask us about how we do our budget. So, I thought this might be a good forum to put up some posts about personal finance in general and how we do things. We’re by no means experts, but I’ve read a fair amount of books on the [...]
Coding 2.0
Replacement office chair suppliers in the Redmond area must be smiling today. Today, Google announced the release of the Google Web Toolkit which allows you to write code in Java and convert it into AJAX that can run in any browser as a web application. To me, this is a potentially huge development [...]
The NCAA Continues Its Quest to Remove All Traces of Native American Culture
It’s political correctness that would make Orwell proud as the NCAA is evidently intent on making sure the next generation has no knowledge of the existence of Native Americans. Now, the phrase “Tribe” is forbidden from college campuses.
The NCAA has added William & Mary to its list of schools subject to restrictions on the [...]
Links for 2006-05-17
( Cool Sites )
The Free Information Society – Historical Sounds in MP3 Format
(tags: sounds)
New Tagging Feature
( Matt's Posts )
I changed the tagging feature of the blog so that now the tags that appear at the end of every post will link to a page with all other posts with that tag. For example, clicking on the technology tag will now take you to a page with all the technology tagged posts.
The one [...]
Google and Small Business
Here’s some interesting insights about the business models of Google and Microsoft by Robert X. Cringley.
Here’s the most important key to Google’s success: Most Google advertisers don’t advertise ANYWHERE else. Its mainly small and medium sized companies whose advertisements the average person would NEVER have seen before the Internet. Google is making a ton of [...]