Dave Kellam

The good, the bad and the ugly. The last musical to win best picture was Oliver! in 1968. Another film released in 1968 was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Hmm.

Cool 2B Real, funded by America’s Beef Producers and targeted at pre-teen girls. And Pork4Kids, courtesy the National Pork Board.

Los Golden Words, scourge of the proletariat.

There are times when you look at a calendar and say to yourself, “I should really be doing something to make that ominous cloud of marker scribbles in the middle of next week less ominousing.” And then you think, “Why?” Your brain replies, “It’s important to do well.” And you think, “Well, what am I going to remember 5, 10 or 25 years from now; studying really hard for those midterms about databases and operating systems or hanging out with a friend.” Then you’re thinking, “Gold.” But you also know that you will have to study at some point and as a result may not be getting as much sleep as you would have liked.

ABC article offering some details about the 13 root servers that control the internet.

Looking to control iTunes via the command line? I found a good script for it. There might be better, but this one seems to do the trick.

Visual Who: Animating the affinities and activities of an electronic community. The basic concept of my first UI assignment.

I have to admit, playing with a robot arm is pretty cool. It’s dumb as shit; it will do exactly what you tell it to, so you need to be kind of careful. Making a robot arm pickup different sized blocks and drop them into the right boxes was interesting. Everything is more fun at three in the morning. Now I need to finish up that assignment and hand it in before midnight. And then some relaxin’. I’ve compiled a lot of the stuff I’ve written for the paper this year and will probably be putting it up in the near future.

I’m just about to head out to a computer lab for a few hours; it should be fun. We get to play around with these robotic arms, writing logic circuits for it and so forth. This assignment’s due tomorrow night at midnight. There was operating systems due earlier today, the database assignment yesterday and the algorithms assignment on monday. Wazoo. And then the weekend comes. I get to interview the two teams vying for AMS exec for the paper on saturday, it should be a good time laughing at them.

Lately, I’ve been doing more crossword puzzles than I used to. If I’m on campus early in the day, I can grab a copy of the Toronto Star for free, it has a pretty good one (online version, not sure if it’s the same one or not though). There’s also this crossword that I do sometimes, although I find it a bit too easy sometimes because it tells you if you have the letter right. And even more crossword puzzles, including the first one.

I finally got sick of that semi-default layout that I was using. So there’s something new, it looks nicer. It appears to be about the same in Safari, Mozilla and IE 6 on Windows, although not exactly. It’s awesome that everyone has decided to implement style sheets differently, so nothing looks the same. I thought css was supposed to help fix that cross-browser problem. I’ll keep tweaking things at any rate.

I just found the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing today, it seems like a pretty handy thing to have around if you’re doing much with computers. My operating systems assignment had taken me on a short quest for a good definition of semaphores.