November 2004
Monthly Archive
happy deepavali
Posted by phil on 10 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Today is Deepavali, the Indian festival of lights.
I didn’t see many lights (more than usual), but that is ok. It commemorates the new year in a certain Indian calendar and also celebrates the triumph of their hero Rama.
waiting more….
Posted by phil on 10 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
spreading new knowledge
Posted by phil on 10 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I put up an article on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. These are articles I’m writing for my Operating Systems class, but perhaps someone may find them useful outside of that. And then Google will love me.
….waiting.
Posted by phil on 09 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So, it’s finally November 9th. Where is Firefox 1.0???
Sorry, I’m just impatient. I suppose I should just go to sleep, and then in the morning it will be there. Fine.
some people just dont get it….t get it….
Posted by phil on 08 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
This is just wrong:
http://www.ilovegod.info/
as if anyone needed more reasons
Posted by phil on 05 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
You know if Microsoft claims that their motivation to do a certain thing is “so we can support standards better,” you should probably take a second look.
Here’s a story of how they botched MSN and why their cover-up story was so outlandish. An excerpt which I challenge you to read out loud without laughing:
?All of our development work for the new MSN.com is … W3C standard,? said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for web technologies. ?For browsers that we know don?t support those standards or that we can?t insure will get a great experience for the customer, we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser that does support the? standards.
the election is officially over
Posted by phil on 05 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
kill tally
Posted by phil on 03 Nov 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
It doesn’t really matter if you think Iraq was handled in the worst possible way. Count the numbers. In Iraq, about 15000 people died in almost two years. Let’s take a look at what Kerry believes in. 857475 people died in one year for his cause. For those of you who are bad with numbers, here’s a visual aid.
Kill count
People killed in the Iraqi war zone in a year and a half:
15000
People killed in American hospitals and clinics in one year:
857475
That’s not even making a distinction between innocents and combatants. Then again, perhaps that’s good. From what I can tell, voters aren’t very good with distinctions of subtlety such as this.