On Saturday night, my fingers were crushed in my bedroom door.[1] When I was little, my siblings and I regularly got our fingers caught in doors, so the pain is somewhat familiar to me. This is by far the worst case. Finger-by-finger:
My thumb is unhurt.
My index finger has two cuts on its side, right next [...]
An essay on how I resolved potential privacy issues with Google Analytics by talking to Google tech support, and my initial impressions of the web-based application.
Although Adlai Stevenson has been dead for more than 40 years, he came alive for me again earlier this week when I heard his song, named after the Democratic presidental candidate in 1952 and 1956. Although Pitchfork did not like it, I found it uniquely compelling. A relatively short track at just under two minutes, [...]
Yes, another boring technical entry involving some problem I had with Linux that you probably do not care about. This one involves the utility tar and large (2 GB+) files.
A confession: I read my news out of order. Yesterday, I read the letter that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent to President George W. Bush. What with all its talk of monotheism, I did not like it:
Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts [...]
The Harvard Crimson continues its relationship with Cambridge's Inspectional Services. After exploring the sanitation of local Harvard Square restaurants, our intrepid reporters turn their eyes toward rodent problems in the Houses. The article contains a ridiculous quote:
A mouse's body is all muscle except for one tiny bone in its head, says Packer, who has been [...]
Update: Matt Gline noted that UC stands for "Undergraduate Council," not "University Council." I feel suitably chastened.
The Undergraduate Council's website is not only ugly and outdated, it is horribly broken. In the latest in a long history of technical glitches, the online application for nominations for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize (awarded for [...]
In tomorrow's New York Times magazine, Kevin Kelly writes the best explanation I have recently read of why book digitization is a good idea and its potential pitfalls. The beginning of the article is a bit silly and utopian, with its claims that the "universal library" (which will include the sum of all human [...]
CNet has a list of the SAR ratings from various cellphones. Interestingly enough, Motorola phones dominate the list of ten phones with the highest ratings. Since I have a Sony Ericsson Z520a (at right), I was interested in the levels of Sony Ericsson phones. Interestingly, the Z520a clocks in at 1.47, the highest level on [...]
Ben White writes:
What I would like to see is one centralized index of all Harvard blogs. There are now enough places where Harvard students are getting their views out, but we're all scattered to the winds. We don't need more hosting services after this, but we do need a place to keep track of everyone [...]
This entry has been sitting in my drafts for the better part of the year. I feel that it is about time to publish it.
Last fall, the Harvard Crimson, the most popular daily on campus, redesigned their website. From a web designer's perspective, the new website was not that much better than the old one [...]
Previously, I wrote about the Calvin & Hobbes RSS feed I was scraping from UComics. Unfortunately, UComics replaced the image that was placed in the RSS feed with a Flash file. While I have updated the RSS feed, I am still a bit angry, since the Flash utilized on UComics is Flash 8. Since Flash [...]