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I gave up midway on A feast for Crows and started reading Sundiver by David Brin. Time to make a trip down to the Library to pick up some books for the winter break. Any recommendations?

It looks they finally caught the person who has been setting fires on campus.

Boingboing had a post yesterday about the iBuzz. I found it quite funny. N‘s wife says that this could be very unfortunate if the song finishes before you do, especially if the next song on your playlist isn’t the right tempo. On the otherhand, it could start a very interesting subculture where people recommend “good” [...]

Reuben has an interesting post about foreign student stats in the US. I have always wondered about what these numbers were. I am too lazy to say anything about them except that it is “interesting….” . Read for your self below. Here’s some stats of interest to those of us who went to school in [...]

I wrote a Gregarius plugin to send any item to a blog with 1 click. Yes I know another plugin!!. This is the last one for a while, I promise.. Maybe I should patent this one like amazon did. Anyway, here is a screenshot of what the output looks like. Screenshots You can edit the [...]

The Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD) has some stunning images. One of them is this stunning panoramic view of the top of Mount Everest. Coming up tomorrow is a picture of the Martian Everest – a volcano called Olympus Mons. Wikipedia says that it is the tallest known mountain in the solar system (3 [...]

I added a new theme for Gregarius which gives it a similar interface to Lilina. It is still a work in progress, so I decided to create a page for it to keep track of changes in the version. This theme shows you the item titles, so you can scan them quickly. You can expand [...]

Haris just posted a pretty detailed overview of his favourite text editor: Textmate. It looks cool and has lots of features, however it costs $40+. A bit too steep for me, but it would be worth it if you are a power text editor user. Anyway it is highly unlikely than I am going to [...]

A shell script I wrote earlier got mentioned in the December issue of Macworld. It is hard to find the mention, but it is there. I wrote the script to move my feeds from Safari RSS to Bloglines. Last month, I upgraded the shell script to an Automator action, so you do not need to [...]

Apoorva made me put in a preview function so that you can preview your comments before you submit them. It is so easy to add functionality to a wordpress plugin. I downloaded and installed the Live Comment Preview plugin. I also stumbled across the Get Recent Comments plugin. This one shows recent comments and trackbacks [...]