Rants, Raves, Reviews, Criticisms

27Sep Pains of typing all day

Well Monday came and went and I started to get this shooting pain in my right hand and fingers and palm. I thought I had slept on my hand or something but this pain s different from that. The bone is hurting so I took some Tylenol and it went away and yesterday [...]

21Sep Which Grad Students Cheat?

A research paper revealed who among all grad students in North America cheated. The study was done on 5,300 graduate students in Canada and the U.S. The results based on field of study:

Business (56%)
Engineering (54%)
Physical Sciences (50%)
Medical/Health Care (49%)
Law (45%)
Liberal Arts (43%)
Social Sciences (39%)

“The typical comment is that what’s important is getting the [...]

21Sep ATM Reprogrammed To Give More $

There was a video on CNN showing an ATM machine that had been reprogrammed to think it was giving out $5 bills when instead it was giving out $20 bills.  Apparently it’s easy to obtain the manual of these ATM machines and the bank that owned the AMT didn’t change the default password (which are listed in the [...]

15Sep Driving + Holding Cell Phone = Banned By Governator

I posted about this a few months back, but the governator will be signing into law today the banning of holding a handset to your head while driving. A $20 fine will be handed out to those motorists caught in the act beginning July 2008. Note: usage of headsets are still allowed.

13Sep Live Search out of beta

Most of you all probably read in the news that MS has taken it’s new “live search” product out of beta.  I was just trying it out and I gotta say it looks like Google’s search page with MS branding on top.  I liked the AJAX scrolling feature that was present in the beta.  The [...]

05Sep Stamps

I don’t really mail out anything other than a few bills, cards, and letters so I don’t use up a lot of stamps but when I do use them up I hate having to go buy more.  It would be cool if there was a service like stamps.com which didn’t charge monthly for postage, but [...]

02Sep Long Weekend

Thanks to Labor Day being on Monday I have a three-day weekend :)  I’m heading up to Berkeley tomorrow morning.  I might take my powerbook with me..that’s a BIG might so I unless I post more recently, see you after the weekend!