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152 his entry <span class="caps">WAS</span> going to be about; well… how do you know when you’re falling in love… what tells you that that person is special and not just run of the mill… When is it too soon to feel those and how do you seperate sheer happiness with love… and sex. and all that.</p>
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154 <p>But it won’t be. It will be instead my insane ranting about the <a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring04/cs131/hw/hw2.html" title="nasty scheme language">nasty scheme language</a> and the headaches its giving me. </p>
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156 <p>Actually it wont be that either. Just coding in brand new langauges that dont have <span class="caps">ANY</span> of the data structs that you understand can give you a headache. I’m insanely mad at this point, the project is already 3 days late (most people havent finished it yet), I havent even <span class="caps">GOTTEN</span> to the second half, the TA’s, while helpful, also speak in tounges… its about ‘hints’ but if you don’t get the underlying reasons, all the hints in the world make no sense unless you randomly combine commands to see what ends up working… which is what I’ve been doing.</p>
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158 <p>My Networking project is pretty <span class="caps">QED</span> and I’ve gotten more than half of it done; I shipped it to my partner with a comprehensive psuedocode on what needs to be done next and how to do it… and of course; I haven’t heard from him. I could just finish it on my own (which was my plan for today), but I’m not really flooded with time. I’m just feeling things take over me, and while I’m far from behind, I want to get some of this crap <span class="caps">DONE</span>! (My langauges prof, the one with the insane projects (incl the Scheme one) has assigned another <a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring04/cs131/hw/pr1.html" title="doozy ">doozy </a>… He teaches well but you can’t expect people trained in C++ their entire lives to take to alternative languages like a fish in water!</p>
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160 <p>I’d feel bad complaining publically, except that I usually don’t complain about my coding assignments; and I normally get them done before others. <span class="caps">EVERYONE</span> is having a massively difficult time with it, and the time commitment is … phenominal. When it finally clicks, it’ll be eas(ier) but, this one has clicked partially and im still stuck at stupid syntaxical errors … and since its a language that people don’t use that much, the regular resources aren’t available… plus we’ve got stupid corner cases that we ran into, with a function adding in an extra pair of () that have to be parsed (thats where I’m currently stuck), with no obvious reasons <span class="caps">WHY</span> it should work that way… (just like corner cases in C++ where you learn, with experience, “it just works that way”).</p>
161
162 <p>::forces himself to breathe::</p>
163
164 <p>Anyhow, things are good with Sarah. I guess I’ve been saying that a lot. We just like sitting and holding each other and staring into each other eyes and tickling and listening to each other… When we disagree, we do it politely and when one person is bothering the other, we can explain it without going batshit weird… Shes smart … dating her is making me a better student (because I want to set a good example) … I get to be a figure of maturity and offer advice instead of always asking for it… </p>
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166 <p>I don’t recall if I felt this way early on with Serena, (ex-gf2) or (ex-gf1) . I know I worry a <em>lot</em> less about whether I’m in it just for the sex, or just because someone likes me, or just because I’m lonely. This is a strange place to be. Each of those was special in their own way…</p>
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168 <p>I just finished a “JUMBO” Snickers bar… yeah I’m gonna have nightmares. </p>
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172 <p>So I’m going frantic; and I know that I’m not going to tackle part 2 of this project; its a homework only and I simply can’t afford the delay (Grading Policy, # of days late -1 = <span class="caps">N, 2</span>^N pct off) and the vast amount of time I’d need to figure out part B (even harder than A) would quickly turn into a losing proposition. </p>
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174 <p>One random annoying thing, this class has four homeworks and two projects.<br />
175 Effectively, each homework is 5% of total grade, each project is 10%.</p>
176
177 <p>The two projects were supposed to be in python. I was happy for that. Its not totally similar to C++ but they are, at least, in the same Genus of languages, versus the vast strangeness that is Prolog, Scheme (lisp) and <span class="caps">ML … </span>Plus, we had to buy about $60 worth of books on Python, and Python is probably the most used of the above, after C++, so it’s useful in the long term too.</p>
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179 <p>Prof : So I realized that homework 3 was too hard, so its now Project 1.<br />
180 (Why not just make it easier?)<br />
181 Me : I thought both the projects were to be in python…<br />
182 Prof : Yeah, they were. I changed it. </p>
183
184 <p>Yes its his right and all. Its just a bummer.</p>
185
186 <p>If I get too down I think of Dixie and her work load and I feel a bit better. Each to their own ability and stage in life though, High School <i>was</i> difficult then. Now, of course, it’d be pie. </p>
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188 <p>===</p>
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190 rizwank 1.1 <p>Edit, minor continued rant:</p>
191
192 <p>Well first I went to wash my face and lost my glasses. Ten minutes burned finding them.</p>
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194 <p>TA emailed back my macro question… (with the project there have been many minor issues linked to one major one; half the time was spent finding out that they were linked, and the other half was trying either to fix the major issue or fix the sub-issues independently) … (I.e. over thinking it).</p>
195
196 <blockquote>This is <em>very</em> close.
197 —- A code snippet of mine
198
199 <p>Looks at this example again:</p>
200
201 <p>> (apply somefunction 1 2 ‘(3 4 5))<br />
202 is equivalent to<br />
203 > (somefuntcion 1 2 3 4 5)</p>
204
205 I can’t say any more or I’ll give it away.</blockquote>
206
207 <p>At this point, when you’ve seen evidence of <span class="caps">MANY</span> hours worth of work, would it be so wrong to just say, ‘heres what you have to do’… Especially with having gotten so close. I do have to say though, these TA’s rock, they answer emails at 1am in the morning (well sometimes) and hold plenty of extra office hours.</p>
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339 <p>1. Woke up on time, amazingly, for the recently announced 10am Office Hours with the <span class="caps">TA.</span><br />
340 2. Made it <span class="caps">AT 10</span>:00am sharp as defined in his email<br />
341 3. Got a lot of insight into the confusing and already due project.<br />
342 4. Did some work on it.<br />
343 4a. Found a 200gig hard drive online for only $99.<br />
344 5. Visited Sarah on campus and shared lemonade.<br />
345 6. Walked to Best Buy, while chatting idly with my mom and helping her with her new remote office setup.</p>
346
347 <p>And then it started.</p>
348
349 <p>7. Evil Best Buy tech’s refused to price match Comp <span class="caps">USA</span> because I didnt have a printed ad, and they didn’t have replacement headphones for my poor damaged pair in stock.<br />
350 8. Got home, the room was beyond hot and just lousy feeling<br />
351 9. Stripped into my underwear and plugged in my iPod to find out that it had crashed and was stuck in an infinite boot cycle.<br />
352 10. Spent an hour trying to fix pod without formatting it.<br />
353 11. Mom called with issues on her computer, tack on another hour.<br />
354 12. Sarah calls during, her shoes self-destructed on campus; and with the super hot day, she asked where on campus she could get shoes. I volunteered to get her (in two hours, post her classes).<br />
355 13. Finished work with Mom, went back to the self-testing iPod which feels like its going to over-heat.<br />
356 14. Start to take a nap to calm down when my roommate shows up, breaking my near rest cycle (and forcing me to put on some more clothing)<br />
357 15. Pick up Sarah after ten minutes of hunting for her on campus and almost running down plenty of people.<br />
358 rizwank 1.1 16. Bring Sarah to her dorm and try to plan a fun day for Wednesday (since I’m going to have to cancel our plans today, homework!) and find out that she’s busy all day.<br />
359 17. Park illegally to drop her off and come in so I can get some free dorm food.<br />
360 18. Show up in her room with her roommate, who’s never really seemed to like me. Offer to help her unjam her printer in an act of good will and instead make things worse (she neglected to show me the <i>other</i> part that was jammed.<br />
361 19. While Sarah washes her feet, I attempt to apologize to roommate with a total lack of success; I’m permanently in her shit list now.<br />
362 20. Feel bad about making printer jamming worse.<br />
363 21. After posting first draft, realizing that blog posting is now broken. Damn.</p>
364
365 <p>Yeah, things could be a <span class="caps">LOT</span> worse; I know. I’ve just got a massive headache, work to do; movies that I planned to watch cancelled and an apartment thats hot as hell. </p>
366
367 <p>On the upside, I’ve been finding myself a lot more focused towards school, and instead of rationalizing why I should have still watched “Fish called Wanda” and the Polish movie in Melnitz today; I reasoned that I <b>have</b> work to do and work > movies. </p>
368
369 <p>Have I updated recently? I guess not… things are good. Sarah and me are splendid and this feels great. School is doing well and parents seem alright. They met girl, they liked.</p>
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492 <p><a title="wiki.theory.org - BASH script to run bittorrent as a daemon" href="http://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BASH%20script%20to%20run%20bittorrent%20as%20a%20daemon?PHPSESSID=a09334c7086086fc67eed37469d5bca3"> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
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497 iki.theory.org - <span class="caps">BASH</span> script to run bittorrent as a daemon</a></p>
498
499 <p>What I’m using on <span class="caps">UCLA</span> and Lifegonewrong’s servers to download some fun :)</p>
500
501 <p><a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5194341.html" title="<b>Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers</b>"><b>Hollywood’s new lesson for campus file swappers</b></a></p>
502
503 <p>Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with new technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus networks, <span class="caps">CNET </span>News.com has learned. </p>
504
505 rizwank 1.1 <p>Anti piracy about to be installed on <span class="caps">UCLA</span> resnet.</p>
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507 <p><a href="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html" title="Cygwin ">Cygwin </a>—- setup a unix enviroment on your pc!</p>
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634 <p>Its a way to interact with the TAs, which, often enough, is an utter waste of time. They don’t speak English, they’ve got better things to do, they haven’t prepared, etc. (Now knowing a grad student well, I sympathize a lot more) —- Sometimes they’d be quizzes or attendance, but rarely in upper-div engineering courses; only math and english classes waste time with that. </p>
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636 <p>Today was a good day. I went to discussion. Yeah, I played games on my Treo for most of it. But the TA’s for these classes spoke (decent) English, and handed out hints and tricks for the projects as if they were candy! Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to learn socket programming on my own, but being given a headstart saved me at least 10 hrs (versus the 2hrs invested in attending the discussion.) Normally I’d expect that they’d post the handouts on the websites, but experience has shown that that usually doesn’t happen…</p>
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638 <p>Anyhow, I have the socket programming guide in front of me :)</p>
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765 <p>I was feeling sick on Thursday until Sarah dragged me out to the outdoor-ness that is Farmers market… sat outside for hours with an LA times and felt significantly better … home (alone, Sung is out) and finished my <span class="caps">CS 143</span> project; then finally realized that I wasn’t going to get anymore work done (I had spent two hours customizing my <span class="caps">BASH</span> shell on the ugrad.seas.ucla.edu server and funnelling Bittorrent files through it)… lots of fun btw… I’m going to run bash at home more with cygwin … point being I had west wings and scrubs to catch up with, so I did.</p>
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767 <p>Today I slept past my first discussion (no surprise, I haven’t attended one yet this quarter), but managed to make it to the second one… TA helped me massively with the project and that, plus some really well made to do lists, taking my stimulant meds again after a two day drug holiday and a sense of accomplishment led to me having a very good day today. So thats where I’m at.</p>
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769 <p>I’d like to head over to <a href="http://www.kingscomicsandcards.com/tournaments" title="king's comics ">king’s comics </a>and play some magic.. my cars making weird sounds though, I’m not hip to the latest changes in the metagame… I’m not sure if I’m going to play at regionals or not.. It’d b e fun, but I could use the cash from working it, plus, everyones going to be playing Ravager! </p>
770
771 <p>I understand Dixie taking a block off of magic now, with limited time, the time that used to be spent reading brainburst, buying cards, sorting cards, planning decks for FNMs, etc seems kinda wasted. If I wasn’t dating someone, it might be different… the lack of good stores within close reach has a <span class="caps">LOT</span> to do with it actually.</p>
772
773 <p>Maybe tomorrow I’ll head out for a game… we’ll see. I’ve got lots of work to do… If I stopped watching repeat scrubs and crap like that I’d have SO much more time for fun things + school :)</p>
774
775 <p>so yeah, for once, school isn’t totally decomposing on me… I have had some shoddy homeworks turned in, but nothing like past problems.<br />
776 I love my apartment building , I’ll do just about anyhting to stay here until I’m done with school.<br />
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1047
1048 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1049 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1050 $title = $row['title'];
1051 rizwank 1.1 $count = $row['count'];
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1053
1054 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1055 $n++;
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1070 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1071 echo "<div class='side'>";
1072 rizwank 1.1
1073 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1074 $n = 0;
1075
1076 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1077 $query = '';
1078
1079 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1080 $title = $row['title'];
1081 $count = $row['count'];
1082 $search = $row['search'];
1083
1084 if ($search == 1) {
1085 $n++;
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1090
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1095
1096
1097
1098
1099
1100
1101
1102 <div class="blogbody">
1103 <a name="000341"></a>
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1105
1106 // record the referer
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1116 ?>
1117 <h3 class="title">Poker baby</h3>
1118
1119 <p><img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/../archives/TreoCam007_20Apr04.jpg"><br> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1120 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1121 I</b>
1122 </p>
1123 </td></tr></table>
1124 'm incredibly happy today- I went to Hedrick to visit gal and while walking through her study hall I came across a poker game... Amazing karma - probably since I visited to help her with her homework- I got some insane draws. Pair kings- flush draws ... I was very happy. With a buy in of $10 I left with $36 ... I was insanely lucky against much better players. I told then that they get their money back next time- I was hoping that I could get in with Dixies friends at Caltech but he's not responding to emails. anyhow- im happy. </p>
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1126
1127
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1129
1130
1131 <div class="posted">
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1133 if ($hits) {
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1142
1143 </div>
1144
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1148 // display the list of referers
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1151
1152 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=341 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1153
1154 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1155 $n = 0;
1156 rizwank 1.1
1157 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1158 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1159 $title = $row['title'];
1160 $count = $row['count'];
1161 $search = $row['search'];
1162
1163 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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1165 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1166 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1167 }
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1170 if (!($n)) {
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1178
1179 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1180 echo "<div class='side'>";
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1182 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1183 $n = 0;
1184
1185 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1186 $query = '';
1187
1188 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1189 $title = $row['title'];
1190 $count = $row['count'];
1191 $search = $row['search'];
1192
1193 if ($search == 1) {
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1195 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
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1224 <h2 class="date">April 15, 2004</h2>
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1226
1227 <div class="blogbody">
1228 <a name="000340"></a>
1229 <?php
1230
1231 // record the referer
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1236 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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1242 <h3 class="title">God of Scheduling</h3>
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1245 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1246 G</b>
1247 </p>
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1249 reat, I just realized Pro Tour San Diego starts Thursday May 13. <br />
1250 If I go to San Diego, I won’t be able to be here to go to it with Lora. (No word yet if they accepted my credentials). I’ve already committed to work Friday onwards (day or night depending upon midterm schedules), but… yeah its weird.</p>
1251
1252 <p>sigh, damn the gods of scheduling.</p>
1253
1254
1255
1256
1257
1258
1259 <div class="posted">
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1272 </div>
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1281 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=340 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1282 rizwank 1.1
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1285
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1288 $title = $row['title'];
1289 $count = $row['count'];
1290 $search = $row['search'];
1291
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1308 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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1313
1314 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1315 $query = '';
1316
1317 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
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1320 $search = $row['search'];
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1346 dc:description="So, things are going well with gal. I&#8217;ll dish details later, but I&#8217;m exhausted right now from classes. For some reason I hit the student lab and felt like googling Kelly , my first gf. Shes gradded by now, did..."
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1353 <h2 class="date">April 14, 2004</h2>
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1355
1356 <div class="blogbody">
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1360 // record the referer
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1370 ?>
1371 <h3 class="title">Googling for Egomaniacs</h3>
1372
1373 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1374 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1375 S</b>
1376 </p>
1377 </td></tr></table>
1378 o, things are going well with gal. I’ll dish details later, but I’m exhausted right now from classes.</p>
1379
1380 <p>For some reason I hit the student lab and felt like googling (ex-gf1) , my first gf. </p>
1381
1382 <p>Shes gradded by now, did well, really got into the photography aspect (worked at Bruinlike and Bruinwalk) and did some stuff with the <span class="caps">UCLA </span>Linux group. I thought about emailing her, but I realized that, to her, Im a transatory guy, who shes dated for just 5 weeks, dumped, and didn’t even sleep with. That part is kind of annoying. I don’t know why it occured to me to google her though. Oh, part of is was a mention of <span class="caps">JPL…</span> she used to kinda work there. Cool, no?</p>
1383
1384 <p>Then I <a href=""rizwan kassim"" title="googled ">googled</a> myself. For the first time in a while, I beat out the Mike and Ben show stuff that isn’t at all positive, so thats nice. Lots of newsgroup postings etc, links to and from my blog. Apparently if you search on blogsearch.com for pretty girls, you get my site.</p>
1385
1386 <p><a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/" title="BlogPulse">BlogPulse</a> is an interesting site showing the most referenced topics on blogs all around!</p>
1387 rizwank 1.1
1388 <p>Ran into Helen at the Enigma events… She totally ignored me and I learned to ignore her. Shes decided to go the more feminine route, so longer hair and frilly tops instead of her previous engineer-girl state. She also got hammered as hell. I don’t there beign somone that doesn’t like me and can’t stand me, but I’ll have to grow up and deal, and <span class="caps">NOT</span> to try to talk to her and confront/resolve it.. its not going to do any good!</p>
1389
1390 <p>I’d like to find a Friday night magic nearby… I’m going to see They Might Be Giants with a bunch of folks as well… Saturday is also a Mensa test… finally I’m getting around to take it; and I know its not going to be anywhere near the score I got as a young’n and thats going to depress me.</p>
1391
1392 <p>My room situ is working out, I have no idea what to do for summer, nor do I have energy to start looking ;p I need to decide what, if anything, I’m taking…</p>
1393
1394 <p><hr></p>
1395
1396 <p>So my gals doing well and we are totally freaking out, its so good. I’m waiting for the other foot to drop, but its good so far. I worry, at times, that the first few weeks I feel close and whatnot, without <i>ever</i> suspecting underlying problems, I’m thinking of (ex-gf1) and Serena now… I think(?) I felt just as happy with them and just as unolbivous as to possible issues or incompatabilities… Other thing that worries me is that my meds interfere with certain processes and its just embarssing at times.. and thats a subsection of a section of my life that totally scares me… :sigh:</p>
1397
1398 <p>Oh, I have to post how we met later. I wrote it to sis in a letter.. Shes doing fine, by the way.</p>
1399
1400 <p>I’m looking forward to seeing Lora for <span class="caps">E3,</span> and I have no idea how thats going to evolve. We have potential to be good friends, and she seems like it ?might? be getting serious with Steve. </p>
1401
1402 <p>Ok, so much for a mini blog entry. I’m going to go eat Panda and groove to Electric Light Orchestra.</p>
1403
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1408 rizwank 1.1
1409 <div class="posted">
1410 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000339" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">06:34 PM</a><?php
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1427 // display the list of referers
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1430
1431 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=339 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
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1433 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1434 $n = 0;
1435
1436 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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1438 $title = $row['title'];
1439 $count = $row['count'];
1440 $search = $row['search'];
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1464 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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1466
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1468 $title = $row['title'];
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1493 dc:title="What a difference a day makes!"
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1495 dc:subject=""
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1503 <h2 class="date">April 11, 2004</h2>
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1507 <a name="000338"></a>
1508 <?php
1509
1510 // record the referer
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1521 <h3 class="title">What a difference a day makes!</h3>
1522
1523 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1524 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1525 S</b>
1526 </p>
1527 </td></tr></table>
1528 o I think I’ve met my analog. Seriously, someone <i>exactly</i> like me, from the paranoia, to the lame ass witty remarks to the totally playful nature. So yeah, I’m dating someone. Who was dating someone else last night. And yes, I am mildly concerned about that. </p>
1529
1530 <p>On a weird note, I’ve started talking with some really cool people on Friendster.. two in particular. </p>
1531
1532 <p>I think too much.</p>
1533
1534 rizwank 1.1 <p>Lora doesn’t sound like things are going to well for her :( Shes been on my mind recently, but I can’t get a hold of her. I’m worried that the above might make her unhappy… I know I was jealous of Steve. I think it’ll have to be one of those wait and see things. </p>
1535
1536 <p>I’m worried about timing with having someone to see down here and school and my own distractions. I just hid the <span class="caps">UT2004</span> cd. Again. </p>
1537
1538 <p>Girls got opposite schedule of me, so the only co-incidental non-weekend free time is pretty restricted, so that good, I guess. Its important to me to not suddenly give up all social obligations, so I’m forcing myself to go to the Enigma party (which she was invited to by another method) even though I’m a bit worried about studying, but I’m arriving late and leaving early… but I’m here for another year, I need to rebuild a social network, and its too easy to get comfortable with the, like, three people I’ve added and forget to go further.</p>
1539
1540 <p><span class="caps">OH MY GOD,</span> the Ira Glass/Chris Ware thing rocked. Meeting Ira rocked even more. I have a very poor picture of the two of us I’ll upload later. (uploads it)</p>
1541
1542 <p>Please ignore the posterizing, in order for it to even be decipherable, I had to pshop it.</p>
1543
1544 <p><img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/ira.jpg" alt="Rizwan Kassim and Ira Glass"></p>
1545
1546 <p><hr>
1547 <span class="caps">EDIT</span>:</p>
1548
1549 <p>Theres something for me to sit and think about. I’m feeling more and more physically ill when I’m worried recently, and I’m sure its psycho-somatic. I’m not saying, Oh, I’ve got another problem, I’m just saying its a weird trend. I haven’t been out on a date for the last seven weeks without getting v. bad stomach pains, for instance.</p>
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1555 rizwank 1.1
1556 <div class="posted">
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1558 if ($hits) {
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1560 echo "$hits";
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1566
1567 | <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=338" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
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1569 </div>
1570
1571 </div>
1572 <?php
1573
1574 // display the list of referers
1575 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1576 rizwank 1.1 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1577
1578 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=338 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1579
1580 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1581 $n = 0;
1582
1583 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1584 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1585 $title = $row['title'];
1586 $count = $row['count'];
1587 $search = $row['search'];
1588
1589 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1590 $n++;
1591 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1592 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1593 }
1594 }
1595
1596 if (!($n)) {
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1605 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1606 echo "<div class='side'>";
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1608 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1609 $n = 0;
1610
1611 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1612 $query = '';
1613
1614 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1615 $title = $row['title'];
1616 $count = $row['count'];
1617 $search = $row['search'];
1618 rizwank 1.1
1619 if ($search == 1) {
1620 $n++;
1621 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1622 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1623 }
1624 }
1625
1626 if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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1631
1632
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1639 rizwank 1.1 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/332"
1640 dc:title="Online Music"
1641 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000337"
1642 dc:subject=""
1643 dc:description="Downloading music gets more expensive &#8220;All five of the major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of single-song downloads on hot releases - to anywhere from $1.25 to as much as $2.49. It isn&#8217;t clear how or..."
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1648
1649
1650 <h2 class="date">April 10, 2004</h2>
1651
1652
1653 <div class="blogbody">
1654 <a name="000337"></a>
1655 <?php
1656
1657 // record the referer
1658 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1659 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (337, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1660 rizwank 1.1 }
1661
1662 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1663 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=337' );
1664 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1665 $hits = $row[0];
1666
1667 ?>
1668 <h3 class="title">Online Music</h3>
1669
1670 <p><a title="Downloading music gets more expensive" href="http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0407downloading07-ON.html"> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1671 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1672 D</b>
1673 </p>
1674 </td></tr></table>
1675 ownloading music gets more expensive</a></p>
1676
1677 <p>“All five of the major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of single-song downloads on hot releases - to anywhere from $1.25 to as much as $2.49. It isn’t clear how or when such a price hike would take place, and it could still be months away. Sales of such singles - prices have remained at 99 cents - still account for the majority of online music sales. </p>
1678
1679 <p>The industry is also mulling other ways to charge more for online singles. One option under consideration is bundling hit songs with less-desirable tracks. Another possibility is charging more for a single track if it is available online before the broader release of the entire album from which it is taken. There is also talk of lowering the price on some individual tracks from older albums.”</p>
1680
1681 rizwank 1.1 <p>:: sigh :: </p>
1682
1683 <p>Can <span class="caps">ANYONE</span> come up with any rational reason why an online album should cost <b><span class="caps">MORE</span></b> than the actual CD in a store? I understand not selling an entire album for $9.99, instead charging $13.99… but $17? </p>
1684
1685 <p>In other news, Walmart is rolling out an online music service… Well thats great… the market leader in music tools.. no wait.. Maybe the market leader in distribtuing music… no, thats not them either?</p>
1686
1687 <p>Oh yeah, the market leader in CDs stolen via shoplifting has opened an online store. Its good that they entire the market and improve the quality of the competetion by market forces, God knows that Apple and Napster need to hire more technical talent to compete with … Walmart. </p>
1688
1689 <p>Yeah, they charge $.88. The extra dime and penny wont do it for me.</p>
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696 <div class="posted">
1697 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000337" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">07:35 PM</a><?php
1698 if ($hits) {
1699 print " | Read ";
1700 echo "$hits";
1701 print " time";
1702 rizwank 1.1 if($hits != 1) echo 's';
1703 }
1704 ?>
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1710
1711 </div>
1712 <?php
1713
1714 // display the list of referers
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1716 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1717
1718 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=337 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1719
1720 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1721 $n = 0;
1722
1723 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1724 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1725 $title = $row['title'];
1726 $count = $row['count'];
1727 $search = $row['search'];
1728
1729 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1730 $n++;
1731 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1732 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1733 }
1734 }
1735
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1738 }
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1740 echo "<br />\n";
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1745 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1746 echo "<div class='side'>";
1747
1748 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1749 $n = 0;
1750
1751 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1752 $query = '';
1753
1754 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1755 $title = $row['title'];
1756 $count = $row['count'];
1757 $search = $row['search'];
1758
1759 if ($search == 1) {
1760 $n++;
1761 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
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1765 rizwank 1.1
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1780 dc:title="When it rains, It pours"
1781 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000336"
1782 dc:subject="Home"
1783 dc:description="I really need to be less worried about being single. Its not that bad and theres a certain liberating aspect about it. Heres whats interesting &#8230; Yesterday, while driving to a play, I was thinking how, for the first time..."
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1788
1789
1790
1791
1792 <div class="blogbody">
1793 <a name="000336"></a>
1794 <?php
1795
1796 // record the referer
1797 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1798 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (336, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1799 }
1800
1801 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1802 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=336' );
1803 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1804 $hits = $row[0];
1805
1806 ?>
1807 rizwank 1.1 <h3 class="title">When it rains, It pours</h3>
1808
1809 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1810 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1811 I</b>
1812 </p>
1813 </td></tr></table>
1814 really need to be less worried about being single. Its not <em>that</em> bad and theres a certain liberating aspect about it.</p>
1815
1816 <p>Heres whats interesting … Yesterday, while driving to a play, I was thinking how, for the first time in a while, I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh I hope theres a cute girl there…’ … mostly because I’ve had a few good emails with someone on Friendster and that satisfied my ‘I’m doing something about it’ part of me. Just like Robin, as long as theres <i>something</i> other than destitute alone-ness, I can rationalize the rest away. And I’m not being demeaning to anyone, or instituting false hope; I’m just saying that if theres any minor potential with someone nice, I’m happy.</p>
1817
1818 <p>And of course, I met someone super cool at the play. I do mean supercool, by the way.</p>
1819
1820 <p>Now, of course, neither interpersonal exchange is of any age, or in any particular direction, and etc. Excessively premature to say anything, and I have no particular hopes etc.</p>
1821
1822 <p>But, wouldn’t you know. When it rains, it pours.</p>
1823
1824 <p>Another thing I need to work on : I should finally learn to stop automatically putting girls that I like in the ‘potential for dating’ bin instead of the ‘friends’ bin, or at least ‘wait and see, stop rushing it!’ bin.</p>
1825
1826 <p>Dixie would be so proud of me.</p>
1827
1828 rizwank 1.1
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833 <div class="posted">
1834 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000336" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">01:01 PM</a><?php
1835 if ($hits) {
1836 print " | Read ";
1837 echo "$hits";
1838 print " time";
1839 if($hits != 1) echo 's';
1840 }
1841 ?>
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1843
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1845
1846 </div>
1847
1848 </div>
1849 rizwank 1.1 <?php
1850
1851 // display the list of referers
1852 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1853 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1854
1855 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=336 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1856
1857 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1858 $n = 0;
1859
1860 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1861 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1862 $title = $row['title'];
1863 $count = $row['count'];
1864 $search = $row['search'];
1865
1866 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1867 $n++;
1868 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1869 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1870 rizwank 1.1 }
1871 }
1872
1873 if (!($n)) {
1874 echo "No referrals yet<br />";
1875 }
1876 else {
1877 echo "<br />\n";
1878 echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1879 }
1880 echo '</div>';
1881
1882 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1883 echo "<div class='side'>";
1884
1885 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1886 $n = 0;
1887
1888 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1889 $query = '';
1890
1891 rizwank 1.1 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1892 $title = $row['title'];
1893 $count = $row['count'];
1894 $search = $row['search'];
1895
1896 if ($search == 1) {
1897 $n++;
1898 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1899 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1900 }
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1902
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1907
1908
1909
1910 <!--
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1917 dc:title="Great, even more palmpilot games."
1918 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000335"
1919 dc:subject=""
1920 dc:description="codejedi.com - Home of Shadow Plan for Palm OS CaSTaway/Palm for Palm OS CaSTaway/Palm is a port of my CaSTaway/GP32 work, which is in turn a port of CastCE for Pocket PC, which is in turn a port of CaSTaway..."
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1925
1926
1927 <h2 class="date">April 08, 2004</h2>
1928
1929
1930 <div class="blogbody">
1931 <a name="000335"></a>
1932 <?php
1933 rizwank 1.1
1934 // record the referer
1935 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1936 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (335, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1937 }
1938
1939 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1940 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=335' );
1941 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1942 $hits = $row[0];
1943
1944 ?>
1945 <h3 class="title">Great, even more palmpilot games.</h3>
1946
1947 <p><a title="codejedi.com - Home of Shadow Plan for Palm OS" href="http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/castaway.html"> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1948 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1949 c</b>
1950 </p>
1951 </td></tr></table>
1952 odejedi.com - Home of Shadow Plan for Palm OS</a></p>
1953
1954 rizwank 1.1 <p>CaSTaway/Palm for Palm OS<br />
1955 CaSTaway/Palm is a port of my CaSTaway/GP32 work, which is in turn a port of CastCE for Pocket <span class="caps">PC,</span> which is in turn a port of CaSTaway for <span class="caps">SDL</span>/Windows. Quite a lineage :) </p>
1956
1957 <p><span class="caps">EDIT </span>: This is an Atari ST emulator :)</p>
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964 <div class="posted">
1965 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000335" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:23 PM</a><?php
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1971 }
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1976
1977 </div>
1978
1979 </div>
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1981
1982 // display the list of referers
1983 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1984 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1985
1986 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=335 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1987
1988 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1989 $n = 0;
1990
1991 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1992 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1993 $title = $row['title'];
1994 $count = $row['count'];
1995 $search = $row['search'];
1996 rizwank 1.1
1997 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1998 $n++;
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2000 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2001 }
2002 }
2003
2004 if (!($n)) {
2005 echo "No referrals yet<br />";
2006 }
2007 else {
2008 echo "<br />\n";
2009 echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2010 }
2011 echo '</div>';
2012
2013 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2014 echo "<div class='side'>";
2015
2016 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2017 rizwank 1.1 $n = 0;
2018
2019 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2020 $query = '';
2021
2022 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2023 $title = $row['title'];
2024 $count = $row['count'];
2025 $search = $row['search'];
2026
2027 if ($search == 1) {
2028 $n++;
2029 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2030 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2031 }
2032 }
2033
2034 if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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2038 rizwank 1.1
2039
2040
2041 <!--
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2048 dc:title="Just damn good phrase."
2049 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000334"
2050 dc:subject=""
2051 dc:description="je ne sais quoi. A quality or attribute that is difficult to describe or express...."
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2053 dc:date="2004-04-08T22:09:31-08:00" />
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2056
2057
2058
2059 rizwank 1.1
2060 <div class="blogbody">
2061 <a name="000334"></a>
2062 <?php
2063
2064 // record the referer
2065 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2066 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (334, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2067 }
2068
2069 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2071 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2072 $hits = $row[0];
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2074 ?>
2075 <h3 class="title">Just damn good phrase.</h3>
2076
2077 <p><a title="je ne sais quoi." href="http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/J0029900.html"> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2078 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2079 j</b>
2080 rizwank 1.1 </p>
2081 </td></tr></table>
2082 e ne sais quoi.</a></p>
2083
2084 <p>A quality or attribute that is difficult to describe or express.</p>
2085
2086
2087
2088
2089
2090
2091 <div class="posted">
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2093 if ($hits) {
2094 print " | Read ";
2095 echo "$hits";
2096 print " time";
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2099 ?>
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2118 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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2120 $title = $row['title'];
2121 $count = $row['count'];
2122 rizwank 1.1 $search = $row['search'];
2123
2124 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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2131 if (!($n)) {
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2140 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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2145
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2148
2149 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2150 $title = $row['title'];
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2152 $search = $row['search'];
2153
2154 if ($search == 1) {
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2184
2185 rizwank 1.1 <h2 class="date">April 07, 2004</h2>
2186
2187
2188 <div class="blogbody">
2189 <a name="000333"></a>
2190 <?php
2191
2192 // record the referer
2193 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2194 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (333, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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2197 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2202 ?>
2203 <h3 class="title">Late Delivery</h3>
2204
2205 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2206 rizwank 1.1 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2207 T</b>
2208 </p>
2209 </td></tr></table>
2210 wo blog entries made in a new app on the Treo that didn’t submit right.</p>
2211
2212 <p><b>The life of a male</b><br />
2213 So, I’m going to go grab some coffee… would you like some?</p>
2214
2215 <p>Nah, I’m just going to head home.</p>
2216
2217 <p>I’ve gotten used to asking, gotten used to being told no, gotten used to beating myself up for asking too soon, gotten used to justifying that I can ask some other time.</p>
2218
2219 <p>And it no longer bashes my self esteem, or my flirting skills…</p>
2220
2221 <p>But it still hurts a bit.</p>
2222
2223 <p>Now its: Dummy its 6pm and this is only the second class… you should have offered to study with her week 3 or so, she’s exhausted, as are you; but unlike you, most other people don’t drop every obligation when a social invitation comes up.</p>
2224
2225 <p>It isn’t the rejection that bothers, its minor, not final, and easy to deal with. Its the self doubt.</p>
2226
2227 rizwank 1.1 <p>::soon to be more here about ‘caring less’ ::</p>
2228
2229 <p>I already know I’m going to spend the majority of the night on HotOrNot and Makeoutclub.<br />
2230 <hr>
2231 <b>Alfred Nobel</b><br />
2232 A quick thought, as the database professor tells us about the Turing award… the ‘Nobel prize’ of Computer Science.</p>
2233
2234 <p>The man discovered <span class="caps">TNT,</span> helped usher in a new age of warfare… and the only knowledge that non-history buffs (or chemists) have of him is that he was a humanitarian, and that there is a world class award series with his name.</p>
2235
2236 <p>Not that I disagree with his change of politics or his good deeds but… man, <i>thats some good PR work.</i></p>
2237
2238 <p><span class="caps">EDIT</span>: Dixie points out, correctly, that Nobel meant to blast railroad tunnels, not people. </p>
2239
2240
2241
2242
2243
2244
2245 <div class="posted">
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2260 </div>
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2267 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=333 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2268
2269 rizwank 1.1 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2270 $n = 0;
2271
2272 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2273 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2274 $title = $row['title'];
2275 $count = $row['count'];
2276 $search = $row['search'];
2277
2278 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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2293
2294 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2295 echo "<div class='side'>";
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2302
2303 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2304 $title = $row['title'];
2305 $count = $row['count'];
2306 $search = $row['search'];
2307
2308 if ($search == 1) {
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2332 rizwank 1.1 dc:description="Mozilla has a browser similar to MyIE2, my favorite browser&#8230; its called Firefox. One problem&#8230; my site looks like shit in it :( The TAL header is too large and the dropcap is double sized&#8230; and whats sad is that,..."
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2340
2341 <div class="blogbody">
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2343 <?php
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2345 // record the referer
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2348 }
2349
2350 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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2355 ?>
2356 <h3 class="title">Firefox</h3>
2357
2358 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2359 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2360 M</b>
2361 </p>
2362 </td></tr></table>
2363 ozilla has a browser similar to <a href="http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm" title="MyIE2">MyIE2</a>, my favorite browser… its called <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/" title="Firefox">Firefox</a>.</p>
2364
2365 <p>One problem… my site looks like shit in it :( The <span class="caps">TAL</span> header is too large and the dropcap is double sized… and whats sad is that, knowing the companies invovled, its probably because the IE engine misinterprets the <span class="caps">HTML</span>/CSS involved.</p>
2366
2367 <p>Oh, if you aren’t using one of the two, you should be. Seriously. Tabbed browsing rocks, even for an old fan of Alt-Tab like myself, plus keeping open pages persistant across sessions is a godsend, esp when your system crashes a lot.</p>
2368
2369 <p>Some alternates and <a href="http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-11102.html" title="discussion">discussion</a> about some other browsers as well. <a href="http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9190" title="More">More</a>. <a href="http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/" title="Plugins">Plugins</a>. Even <a href="http://mimeryme.jablog.com/blog.php" title="more">more</a>!</p>
2370
2371 <p>Did you know that Opera allows you to use mouse <a href="http://www.opera.com/features/mouse/" title="GESTURES"><span class="caps">GESTURES</span></a>?</p>
2372
2373
2374 rizwank 1.1
2375
2376
2377
2378 <div class="posted">
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2380 if ($hits) {
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2402 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2405 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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2407 $title = $row['title'];
2408 $count = $row['count'];
2409 $search = $row['search'];
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2427 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2428 echo "<div class='side'>";
2429
2430 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2432
2433 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2434 $query = '';
2435
2436 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2437 rizwank 1.1 $title = $row['title'];
2438 $count = $row['count'];
2439 $search = $row['search'];
2440
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2452
2453
2454
2455
2456
2457
2458 rizwank 1.1
2459 <div class="blogbody">
2460 <a name="000329"></a>
2461 <?php
2462
2463 // record the referer
2464 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2465 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (329, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2466 }
2467
2468 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2469 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=329' );
2470 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2471 $hits = $row[0];
2472
2473 ?>
2474 <h3 class="title">The way education should be...</h3>
2475
2476 <p><img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/../archives/Picture008_07Apr04.jpg"><br> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2477 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2478 I</b>
2479 rizwank 1.1 </p>
2480 </td></tr></table>
2481 wrote an entry during my network class complaining about accented professors, expansive classes and boring material, but Mobster ate it. Now, This is what I love... We are talking about language theory... Bending our minds coding in prolog... Just enough math to prove the point, but not so much as to belabor it...</p>
2482
2483 <p>Prolog is pure logic with a splash of control instead of the standard reverse that we learn.</p>
2484
2485 <p>Sadly, being fascinated by a class DOESNT gaurantee that ill attend it properly... Sociology of Mass Communication and Formal Languages being excellent examples.</p>
2486
2487 <p>But its nice to have :)</p>
2488
2489 <p>Its a reasonable point to consider, this professor was rated highly on uclaprofessors.com, the rest werent... Could it be the teaching has as much of a role as the material? or the more likely case that good teachers thrive with good material, but its hard to salvage boring stuff.</p>
2490
2491 <p>Also worth noting, unfamiliar yet relevant material is most likely to fall in this category (for me)�</p>
2492
2493
2494
2495
2496
2497
2498 <div class="posted">
2499 <div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script> at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#000329" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">03:15 PM</a><?php
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2510 </div>
2511
2512 </div>
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2515 // display the list of referers
2516 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2517 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2518
2519 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=329 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
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2521 rizwank 1.1 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
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2523
2524 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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2526 $title = $row['title'];
2527 $count = $row['count'];
2528 $search = $row['search'];
2529
2530 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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2532 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
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2545
2546 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2547 echo "<div class='side'>";
2548
2549 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2550 $n = 0;
2551
2552 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2553 $query = '';
2554
2555 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2556 $title = $row['title'];
2557 $count = $row['count'];
2558 $search = $row['search'];
2559
2560 if ($search == 1) {
2561 $n++;
2562 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2563 rizwank 1.1 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
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2566
2567 if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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2571
2572
2573
2574
2575
2576
2577
2578 <div class="blogbody">
2579 <a name="000326"></a>
2580 <?php
2581
2582 // record the referer
2583 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2584 rizwank 1.1 mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (326, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2585 }
2586
2587 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2588 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=326' );
2589 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2590 $hits = $row[0];
2591
2592 ?>
2593 <h3 class="title">Staying Awake</h3>
2594
2595 <p><img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/../archives/Picture006_07Apr04.jpg"><br> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2596 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2597 I</b>
2598 </p>
2599 </td></tr></table>
2600 ts a shame that an upper division class still has to be THIS big - Its also a shame that the profs accent requires a double take... Constantly. No wonder I feel sleepy...�</p>
2601
2602
2603
2604
2605 rizwank 1.1
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2611 echo "$hits";
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2620
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2623
2624 // display the list of referers
2625 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2626 rizwank 1.1 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2627
2628 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=326 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2629
2630 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2631 $n = 0;
2632
2633 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2634 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2635 $title = $row['title'];
2636 $count = $row['count'];
2637 $search = $row['search'];
2638
2639 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2640 $n++;
2641 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2642 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2643 }
2644 }
2645
2646 if (!($n)) {
2647 rizwank 1.1 echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2649 else {
2650 echo "<br />\n";
2651 echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2652 }
2653 echo '</div>';
2654
2655 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2656 echo "<div class='side'>";
2657
2658 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2659 $n = 0;
2660
2661 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2662 $query = '';
2663
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2700 <h2 class="date">April 05, 2004</h2>
2701
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2725 chool today.</p>
2726
2727 <p>Meeting with Counselors went well, signed another Academic Agreement, and talked to Lila about transferring my classes back into <span class="caps">UCLA.</span></p>
2728
2729 <p>Class one stats… I’m not ‘in’ yet, so I have to get a <span class="caps">PTE </span># … Reasonably boring, had to leave early to get They Might Be Giants tickets for some friends (last day and I have solid classes till 6)…</p>
2730
2731 rizwank 1.1 <p>Class two, Network programming. Whats scary is that I couldn’t find the building or the classroom… I actually <span class="caps">FORGOT</span> where Knudsen was, this class in which I had slept through SO many physics classes. It went ok, boring as hell, I really don’t think the professor should have to explain that the ‘Internet is growing’. I get it. Rest was expl. of different communication systems, packet relaying, etc… until he got into some strange probability statistics that didn’t make much sense to any of us, it seems. I doubt hes going to test it. Professors should avoid following long complicated steps to prove something that doesn’t need to be proved, and that you don’t expect your students to prove, (or even fully understand the proof) … a lot of Math and Physics professors do that.</p>
2732
2733 <p>Class three, Programming Languages. Def. the shining star of the quarter. As we walk in Prof asks us to code the following…</p>
2734
2735 <blockquote><span class="caps">INPUT </span>: A text file with sentances.
2736 <span class="caps">OUTPUT </span>: A sorted list (decreasing numerically) of word frequencies.<br />
2737 <span class="caps">DEFINITIONS </span>: Word = [A-Za-z]+ and case is significant.</blockquote>
2738
2739 <p>I knew as soon as he handed it that he would provide us with a one line answer after we spent ten minutes scrambling to write code.</p>
2740
2741 <p>I designed mine as such (psuedo code, and I didnt finish in time (no one did) anyhow, but I feel like sharing)</p>
2742
2743 <blockquote>struct key { string word; int index; };
2744 class container {<br />
2745 public :<br />
2746 void init();<br />
2747 void add(string);<br />
2748 void print();<br />
2749 private:<br />
2750 key db<sup class="footnote"><a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2004/04/index.html#fn1024">1024</a></sup>;<br />
2751 int next = 0;<br />
2752 rizwank 1.1 }</blockquote>
2753
2754 <p>Init set all the key values to 0.<br />
2755 Add did a for loop through the db until a matching string was found, if not, add it in key ‘next’ and incr next.</p>
2756
2757 <p>I got that far in 8 minutes before my hand started to cramp… what was missed was the print algo (not too hard, find the highest value for index, do a for from index_high to 1 and then for inside the entire loop. The loaders pretty easy, get_line with delimiter of space (doesn’t deal with ‘.’ sadly) and put it in with add(string).</p>
2758
2759 <p>Now let me mention that we were told Quick and Dirty. If I cared at all about … well given more time, I’d have used a hash table…</p>
2760
2761 <p>Anyhow, of course, he had the miracle solution.<br />
2762 Turns out its an old story of two leading CS folks in the 60’s (one of which went on to write some amazing book… the details are in my notes, but I don’t feel like transcribing)… the student wrote a very elegant solution using hash tries … no, not trees. Yeah, no one in class had heard of a ‘trie’ either. The person who asked the question (worked at Bell Labs) gave this (theres some syntax missing but whatever)</p>
2763
2764 <blockquote>tr -c-s ‘A-Za-z’ ‘\012’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr</blockquote>
2765
2766 <p>Now, a very good argument can be made for the students case, because this solution uses <span class="caps">UNIX</span> libraries and commands and can’t really be considered coding… that being said, his way of approaching it is what was amazing…. Actually, I feel like writing more in detail about what I learned about notations/langauges… more on this later.</p>
2767
2768 <p>Oh wow, I still haven’t blogged my Columbus trip, crap.</p>
2769
2770 <p>Last class… yeah I was late for it. I came into a computer lab and vegged for a while, I had a migrane coming on. Bad habit I know… I arrived to a boring class on Databasing systems that might have potential, but at the moment was a snorefest… took him half an hour to get through half of the syllabus ;p Sat next to a cute girl named Yasmin which was nice… we chatted slightly. </p>
2771
2772 <p>People get really uncomfortable when I talk to them… :sigh:</p>
2773 rizwank 1.1
2774 <p>So yeah, thats my day…</p>
2775
2776 <p>Some interesting stuff…</p>
2777
2778 <p><a href="http://www.macnn.com/news/24091" title="New utility strips DRM from iTunes Music Store tracks ">New utility strips <span class="caps">DRM</span> from iTunes Music Store tracks </a><br />
2779 So what will playfair do for you? The playfair program is quite simple. It takes one of the iTMS Protected <span class="caps">AAC </span>Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular <span class="caps">AAC </span>Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file.</p>
2780
2781 <p>Thats really bad for the iTunes store… by the way <span class="caps">I FINALLY</span> won a free song! ;p<br />
2782 Turns out you could <a href="http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/faq.shtml" title="do it">do it</a> in Windows for months ;p</p>
2783
2784 <p>I’m almost against such a project… I love free media and all, don’t get me wrong, and I’m quoted in Newsweek for saying that no consumer encryption schema will ever pass muster, but … this is a paradigm shift folks… this is the change in the music industry, give them some time to stabilize!</p>
2785
2786 <p>According to C|Net News, Ingvar Kamprad, founder of <span class="caps">IKEA,</span> is now the richest man with an estimated worth of about $53 billion. Poor Billy, he’s only worth $47 billion</p>
2787
2788 <p>The latest version of <span class="caps">PC </span>Gamer indicates that EverQuest II will have actual speech from <span class="caps">NPC</span> characters. So far no <span class="caps">MMORPG</span> has done this; it has all been text you have to read in on your screen. It is expecting there will be over 130 hours of talking dialogue from <span class="caps">NPC</span>’s.</p>
2789
2790 <p>According to this <a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/31/0216258" title="Slashdot ">Slashdot </a>article, Homestarr Runner the <span class="caps">RPG</span> for the Atari console is near completion. Check out the demo here and the official website here. (Wow, thats … cool… or scary).. no wait, its for the Atari console alright… the 2600! Yes, thats <b>def.</b> cool.</p>
2791
2792 <p>It drives me nuts how long I can surf the web and still find interesting stuff to read.</p>
2793
2794 rizwank 1.1 <p>A <a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/html/news/story.jsp?newsId=1926940" title="MCV "><span class="caps">MCV </span></a>study shows that 60% of hardcore Xbox gamers have chipped (or modded) consoles. They also say most go a step further and download games and emulators off the internet. </p>
2795
2796 <p>Electric Light Orchestra rocks, I’ve been listening to them constantly…</p>
2797
2798 <p><a href="http://google.weblogsinc.com/" title="the unoffical google weblog.">the unoffical google weblog.</a></p>
2799
2800 <p>From <a href="http://www.dandelionwine.org/archives/000393.php" title="Dandelion Wine">Dandelion Wine</a> :<br />
2801 I’m a sucker for a story with a happy ending, and both of these stories have happy endings.</p>
2802
2803 <p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/4968643653231631/" title="To catch a cell phone thief">To catch a cell phone thief</a><br />
2804 <i>So some high school student in Ohio had her phone stolen, but rather than just give up, she decided to call the phone and see who answered, and in the process managed to help bust up a ring of thieves who had been breaking into cars all over that part of the state.</i></p>
2805
2806 <p><a href="http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-April/013049.html" title="I fought the scammer ... and I won">I fought the scammer … and I won</a><i>He asks them what the problem is and is told to step away from the computer. He doesn’t seem too happy about this, but does so. He’s asked his name and is told that he might like to come down for a chat in the local station. He says his wallet and ID are in the booth, so he walks in, rips a <span class="caps">USB</span> memory stick from the side of his laptop, tries to swallow it and makes a run for it.</i></p>
2807
2808 <p>Probably one of my favorite posts from <a href="http://www.upsaid.com/timiat/index.php?action=viewcom&id=204" title="Dixie">Dixie</a>:<br />
2809 <a href="http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a> has started blogging. Now, whenever I read something offensive from someone on the other side of the political spectrum, I can just link over to Noam and remember why it is some people become so militantly conservative.</p>
2810
2811 <p>She says I do something that a lot of others do, I don’t blog a lot for a while then I super blog for a while. I need to become more consistent :)</p>
2812
2813 <p><hr></p>
2814
2815 rizwank 1.1 <p>I need a fellow coder:</p>
2816
2817 <p><span class="caps">UCLA IEEE</span> is going to have the <a href="http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~ieee/activities/eweek/program.htm" title="IEEE Programming Contest "><span class="caps">IEEE </span>Programming Contest </a>on Tuesday, April 13th. We welcome you all to participate in the competition and walk away with our great prizes, which include Gamecubes, <span class="caps">MP3</span> players and etc. All you need is to use some basic programming skills that you learn in your freshman year and solve a given program within a limited time. A two-person team is strongly recommended. </p>
2818
2819 <p>That’d be <span class="caps">AWESOME</span>!</p>
2820
2821 <p>One random <span class="caps">UCLA</span> class I just stumbled on ‘P2P Computing Fundamentals’…</p>
2822
2823 <p>They’ve changed their summer offerings… it looks like they’ll have plenty of courses I can take for the summer, so I can’t really justify to myself any desire to go to New York or Nor cal and work at a radio station when I could be getting closer to graduating….</p>
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2949 itu with Lora is weird. She’s aware of the difficulty of LDRs (Long Distance Relationships) and effectively said no. We are still whatever, but shes going to continue dating others and (grr) get close with this Steve guy. (Dixie says Hurrah, LDRs suck.)</p>
2950
2951 <p>I had soem issues, but I’m past those now, and I’ll deal. That being said, there is a time in <span class="caps">EVERY</span> relationship of mine (sans one) that this sentiment is <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/ozreiuosn/29491.html" title="expressed">expressed</a>:</p>
2952
2953 <blockquote>im tired of thinkin of others.
2954
2955 <p>this time its for me! im gonna be selfish. im gonna think about what i want for once.</p>
2956
2957 sorry if youre gonna get hurt, this time its for me. im gonna do what i want.</blockquote>
2958
2959 <p>One thing I really liked about Lora, and something we discussed, is the fact that she wasn’t selfish to me. I try to open myself fully and give myself fully to the person I’m dating (sadly, again, with one exception); and I’ve always hated the ‘I’m going to be selfish’ sentiment, and Lora knew that too. And agreed with it.</p>
2960
2961 <p>What do I do now? Nothing… I’ll deal. I’m be happy with a phone friend and someone who comes to visit me on occasion… We’ve both said how much we wish we lived near each other and how we could take advantage of the potential of our chemistry, and who knows for the future… but for now, c’est la vie. One (sad?) thing about growing up is that I give up ( stopping the constant pining) on people a lot easier… makes splitting up harder, but what about when the ‘One’ comes?<br />
2962 rizwank 1.1 <hr>
2963 Dad committed a major Faux Pas yesterday, saying one of the things that NO parent should ever say to their child… and its even harder in the context that my parents aren’t doing well at all. I was going to dish and freak out and berate him, but he actually apologized just now, a record (18 hours!); so I think I’ll give him some slack.<br />
2964 <hr>
2965 <span class="caps">MOVING DAY</span>! Thanks to some incompetence by the old tenant, I have no key, so its time to rely on the grace of the Landlord to let me in. Back to <span class="caps">UCLA,</span> its scary. Brian and Nichole were genuinely sad to see me go, its touching how close we’ve gotten and I’m really going to try to keep it up. Two guys at <span class="caps">FNM, </span>Josue (pronouced, stunningly, as Josh) and Tony; I’ve gotten reasonably clsoe to them too.. they are about my age and realize how much <span class="caps">FNM</span> was about blowing off steam and acting like a child, as much as it was about kicking some Magic ass.</p>
2966
2967 <p>Target time, for last minute supplies.</p>
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3080 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3081 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=323' );
3082 $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3083 $hits = $row[0];
3084
3085 ?>
3086 <h3 class="title">Damned April Fools</h3>
3087
3088 rizwank 1.1 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3089 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3090 S</b>
3091 </p>
3092 </td></tr></table>
3093 low day, plenty of ‘West Wing,’ followed by some CnC Generals… finally started packing. Got some boxes … Freaked out when I saw that <a href="http://www.suprnova.org" title="suprnova">suprnova</a> went Japanese, until I found the <span class="caps">IRC</span> channel and realized it was April Fools day.</p>
3094
3095 <p>Lora and I talked on occasion during the day, one long conversation with her at the park was interuppted with my mom calling, annoyed that my dad doesnt’ want to take her to the airport. Here’s the thing… shes going on about something that is, in the overall state, a small thing. I don’t know why she lets it bug her so much… any how, Lora hung up after being on hold for a while, and later on, she mentioned that ‘she’d never have a long distance relationship’…. One of her other boys is coming back to the country and she said ‘I haven’t told him about Steve (someone whos pursuing her in RL) yet…’ I’m like, what about me? … She never stated that she wasn’t willing to try it, she said that she didnt like it, but that <span class="caps">OAK</span> to <span class="caps">LAX</span> wasn’t so far as to make it untenable… we part as I need to think… when I get back up, she starts telling me how shes been weird and out of sorts for the past few weeks…</p>
3096
3097 <p>She tells me to read her blog and I do. She’s pregnant. Not with my baby, and she doesn’t know who the father is. I’m freaking out. What is she doing, why didnt she tell me, how does she not know the father… Then she reminds me its April 1. What a mean ass joke, esp when I was hurting as I was. In retrospect, it was funny as hell, but the timing was poor…. I contacted Dixie immediately and was like ‘OMG, what do I do?’ and it turns out to be a funny. We part for a while as I de fume… after a few scattered conversations, we establish that we’d both really like if we lived near each other, but it isn’t to be so… so we are… whatever we are. We’ll still talk and hang out and do whatever… it just wont go anywhere, and that makes me sad, but it makes sense. anyhow, that’ll play out, but things will work out, so whatever.</p>
3098
3099 <p>Serena’s seeing someone, as confirmed in comments… its bugging me slightly and I have NO idea why, but I hope she’s happy.</p>
3100
3101 <p>By the way, why do we freak out at gas prices at $2.10? Its much more expensive elsewhere… and we rarely get told <span class="caps">WHY</span> they are going up… Turns out that Bush is considering giving Calif a waiver from the Clean Air Act… thats <span class="caps">BAD.</span></p>
3102
3103 <p>I really respect McCain, reading about his recent pushes towards enviromentalisim… also Jerry Springer… listen to details about his history as a politiction before the show… A wonderful <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ra/258.ram" title="This American Life ">This American Life </a>episode. Ira Glass is speaking at <span class="caps">UCLA </span>:) I should look into interning there for this summer, or find some other radio job… call my friends at StarFM or ClearChannel…</p>
3104
3105 <p>Dixie has a <a href="http://www.blogcoven.com/mt-archives/000177.html" title="treatise">treatise</a> on blog rules … its quite good. That being said, she didn’t follow them before… but she def does now. She just doesn’t post comments :annoy:</p>
3106
3107 <p>Have I mentioned how much I apprecaite her? I think I undervalue her… she calls me on my shit, and is one of the people on the planet that I think is just massively smarter than I am … and you all know how hard that is for me to say. </p>
3108
3109 rizwank 1.1 <p>Family sat down and talked about plans for school… early sleep for more packing tomorrow.. the computers all packed up so no random fun :( <span class="caps">FNM</span> tomorrow though :) Maybe a draft with Brian and Nichole too…</p>
3110
3111 <p>There are plans to encircle the Capitol building with a fence for security reasons, restricting access to security checked people, but would give even more access now than there was before. That being said, it would cost <b><span class="caps">FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS</span></b> … why does every public project in this nation cost so much?</p>
3112
3113 <p>One random thing, whenever I was at CSUpomona going up the elevator, when I reach for the ‘close door button’ and I remember a Douglas Adams thing from one of his books where he theorized of a disease that would strike only Class-A’s … and the only transmission vectors would be the close door button. </p>
3114
3115 <p>I don’t know if prision guard unions have too much <a href="http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2968940/detail.html" title="power">power</a>… I hate unions that block any reform… i.e. all of them. Or large corps either. </p>
3116
3117 <p>One thing I’m thinking about politics… kinda inspired by a West Wing episode where two Supreme court justices were nominated, a far right and a far left judge, and everyone (granted, this was manufactured) was happy about it… I’ve noticed, I get really into people that are … well enthused. The crowds behind Dean should say something… we want invested statesmen, not middle of the line, compromising politions… Anyhow, bed time.</p>
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3119
3120
3121
3122
3123
3124 <div class="posted">
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3138
3139 </div>
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3141
3142 // display the list of referers
3143 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3144 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
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3146 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=323 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
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3148 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3149 $n = 0;
3150
3151 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3152 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3153 $title = $row['title'];
3154 $count = $row['count'];
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3156
3157 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3158 $n++;
3159 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3160 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
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3162 }
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3164 if (!($n)) {
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3173 echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3174 echo "<div class='side'>";
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3179 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3180 $query = '';
3181
3182 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3183 $title = $row['title'];
3184 $count = $row['count'];
3185 $search = $row['search'];
3186
3187 if ($search == 1) {
3188 $n++;
3189 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3190 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3191 }
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3193 rizwank 1.1
3194 if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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3229 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
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3235 rizwank 1.1 <h3 class="title">Head Shrinking</h3>
3236
3237 <p> <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3238 <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3239 J</b>
3240 </p>
3241 </td></tr></table>
3242 ust saw Jersey Girl with HeatherW… </p>
3243
3244 <p>Day was a … regular one. My appts with my academic counselor got cancelled yesterday :grr: so I just had my two shrink appts. On my way to my first one, I hit microsleep and side-ended a brand new 2004 <span class="caps">PT </span>Cruiser… :sigh: … Everyone was fine, minor scratches, but my first accident in a long while … made it to my first appt and discussed meds… we are trying out Stratera, a new non-stim <span class="caps">ADHD</span> drug, as well as moving some stimulants around the day to see if we can even out my energy a bit more (i.e. those sleep periods)… drove by my new apartment on Tiverton, then went to Bel Air camera to drop off some film…. 6 rolls, 4 slides. Asked them if they had any job openings (which I later did at the new <span class="caps">EB </span>Games) and signed up for a ‘Art of the Pin up’ tutorial. Got some Spikes’ Teriyaki (yum), and thought a bit about Helen and how much I screwed that up, and how a friend would be nice down here… also a bit about her stubbornness. Went to Sprint, hee-hawed and after a manager that was overworked ignored me and other customers to serve his friends, they gave me the past promoised discount (the manager that offered it to me had since left). Made it to Klaskin’s late due to the stupid drivers on Wilshire, the lame setup of the intersection light at Wilshire and Santa Monica and the slowness of the Sprint Manager… talked about traffic, Lora, moving back down, but the big thing… my ‘rents.</p>
3245
3246 <p>Things are getting worse, and I’m really unaware of what to do… I’m glad I’m out of the house in many ways, and hopefully it will inspire them to fix/talk about whats going on (not likely).</p>
3247
3248 <p>After that, long delayed drive to Pasadena, where Jersey Girl was watched and Ice-cream had. We talked for a while and then hung out in her flat, which was a blast… HeatherW is <b>the</b> I cannot accurately predict at all, ever. Its weird how much she knows and how much she thinks I need to learn and … well shes annoying as hell and I love her for it. </p>
3249
3250 <p>I’m thinking about hitting up <span class="caps">VVHS,</span> my old high school tomorrow to visit some teachers as I move back. Would be fun… Of course I really <b>DO</b> need to pack. CnC Generals, Zero Hour isn’t helping that… Setting up my new Treo 600 wont help either, maybe I’ll just install the base apps needed.</p>
3251
3252 <p>Turns out Serena is seeing someone; or something. HeatherW gave me the skinny on her blog and updates, I found it incredilby odd that she was updating me on my ex’s situ. </p>
3253
3254 <p>:looks at the list of stuff to blog:</p>
3255
3256 rizwank 1.1 <p>I’ll do it, I swear ;p</p>
3257
3258
3259
3260
3261
3262
3263 <div class="posted">
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3265 if ($hits) {
3266 print " | Read ";
3267 echo "$hits";
3268 print " time";
3269 if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3270 }
3271 ?>
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3277 rizwank 1.1
3278 </div>
3279 <?php
3280
3281 // display the list of referers
3282 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3283 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
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3285 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=322 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3286
3287 $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3288 $n = 0;
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3290 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3291 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3292 $title = $row['title'];
3293 $count = $row['count'];
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3295
3296 if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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3318 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
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3321 $referer1 = $row['referer'];
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3324 $search = $row['search'];
3325
3326 if ($search == 1) {
3327 $n++;
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3338
3339
3340 rizwank 1.1 </div>
3341 </div>
3342 <?php
3343 //Change the following to your email address
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