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Liveblogging My Exam

» by Chewxy April 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pm » Comments (11)

Hi all,
I’ll be liveblogging my mid-semester exam. It’s from 2pm to 5pm AEST. and during this time, I’ll occassionally pop back here to blog. I will not blog the questions, or the answers (because that would constitute cheating), but I will blog my thoughts - what I think about the exam. Or whatever stray thoughts […]



Random Complaints

» by Chewxy March 21st, 2008 at 3:06 am » Comments (7)

On Bad Data
I laughed/cried myself to sleep last night over this:

It was funny. And sad at the same time. I actually post this up for cfgt to see, since I’m likely to be sleeping when he wakes up.
Bleh, totally not normal (Jarque-berra proves its way too skewed and kurt - by 45 million times! LOL!). […]



Google Fails At Word

» by Chewxy March 15th, 2008 at 4:36 pm » Comments (1)

Look at my search term. I searched for ‘the word Discuss’. And then look at the Google results.
This is prevalent across almost all Google websites. Here’s a collection of a few (click to enlarge):

I noticed that only in Google Malaysia, there was one measly result for my search term. I thought, maybe in […]



One Terabyte

» by Chewxy February 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am » Comments (5)

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have here, an announcement to make: I have one terabyte now.
Here’s what 1TB looks like:

Here’s what’s in the pic:

WD My Book Essential Edition - 320GB
Buffalo Drive Station - 500GB
WD Passport - 120GB
WD Passport - 160GB
My laptop - 250GB
Core Python Programming - lots of gigabytes of knowledge
Total = 1350GB + lots of gigabytes […]



What’s in Your RSS Reader?

» by Chewxy January 31st, 2008 at 4:29 am » Comments (8)

I have two categories of RSS feeds that I read - one is my browser (Firefox and Opera) feeds; the other is Omea feeds. I used to use Google Reader, but I’ve gotten paranoid over what Google knows about me, so I switched to Omea instead
The browser feeds are feeds that I read really often […]