Archive for March, 2008

Last Suppers

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I was browsing hulu yesterday, when I saw this promotional ad for the upcoming restart of Battlestar Galactica.

The full image is very impressive and instantly recognizable:

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 (2008)
The image is normally a center figure with flanked by four sets of trinities. Therefore, there is someone missing in the photo. I guess the missing [...]

Advocates of Single-Payer

Friday, March 28th, 2008

This shocking article, especially in light of their tactical PR moves, makes a number of people theorize that WalMart would be advocates of a Single-payer health care system.
No. Just the opposite.
In 2004, WalMart spent $650k to defeat Proposition 72. Now a careful reading may have some wondering how a bill requiring heath coverage is [...]

YUI cookies

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Every time I talked about web cookies, my ex-girlfriend would say, “Mmmm, cookies.”
Besides messing with my train of thought, it also gave me an unhealthy obsession with cookie implementations in web development. Today, I was taking apart how YUI implements subcookies, and the source had this comment in the subcookie parser…
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:

/**

* Parses a [...]

Bailout

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I was pointed to this Paul Krugman article, which is a sequel to this piece. The Bear Stearns buyout is what touched it off. To which, someone wrote:
“Ahh, GOP capitalism—where profits are privatized and losses are socialized.
Conservative blogs start quoting Paul Krugman and the Times… You hear that? That’s the sound of the pendulum swinging [...]

I’m stalking you

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A classmate from college, Dr. Frank Ling, is giving an internal talk at CNET:
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Frank works as a PostDoc at Berkeley on green technology, guest blogs on Cleantech, and does the radio program, Berkeley Groks, with another classmate of mine, Charles Lee.
Great people, both of them.
Change the world.

Reading George Orwell

Friday, March 14th, 2008

In my seventh grade English class, I got an opportunity to read Animal Farm by George Orwell.
My mom had read it once as a little girl during the brief occupation of Seoul in the Korean War.
“One day Ohma brought home fish for dinner, wrapped in paper. But it was too much paper—everything was scarce. I [...]

Bebo for $850 million

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I guess the news in my world today is that Bebo sold to AOL for $850 million.
Trust AOL to make the Microsoft-generated $15 billion “valuation” look like a steal. I’m curious how much Hi5 must be worth now:

Just trying to add some perspective. Not sure how Falco thinks “dominating in the United Kingdom” is going [...]

nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 (and panoramic landscapes)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I finally upgraded my copy of nik Color Efex Pro.1 It has this new feature called “u-point” which allows you to do zone system tone masking a lot like LightZone. This means I can finally edit without masks. The other advantage is it finally works again on the Mac version of Photoshop.
So [...]

Obama’s 2002 speech

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

“Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.
“The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and [...]

Home alone (or not)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I’ve been writing lately about the three P’s: programming, photography, and politics. Many of you must be bored out of your mind and are thinking, Damn! Terry.TMI.
Time to break it up a bit.
A friend is in the process of moving to a new place. She mentioned that she had never lived on her own before. [...]