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Facebook & Blogging

2008-03-22T17:20:33Z

Facebook is the first social network that I have been using day-in, day-out. Knowing that people read your junk does give an insentive to post in even more of it :) One issue with Facebook, though, is its lack of good blogging support. Yes, there is that Notes thing, but it feels awkward. Plus, not everyone I know is on Facebook and sometimes I want to write something especially stupid to share with outside folks. Fear no more. Here's my experimental fix. This blog entry is made from my the Live Journal account which I've linked to Facebook. Let's see how well this works.

Rug Cutter's Swing

2007-06-03T16:33:47Z

dima1 @ 2006-07-27T11:10:00

2006-07-27T18:21:55Z

I've decided to develop using Eclipse. Seems a lot of companies are looking for people with Eclipse knowledge. I think this requirement is braindead, but who am I to argue with the guy who has the power not to hire me?

So yesterday I got Eclipse set up and configured for the project. After spending a few hours trying to get the code to compile and run and writing up steps for setting up DLE in Eclipse, I found a copy of a set up instructions in Perforce.

I don't like Eclipse. I try not to judge it based on my unfamiliarity with its features. The program just doesn't have the same complete feel as IntelliJ IDEA.

Today I installed Maven 2 and JDepend (+Eclipse plugin). Over the following several weeks I'll try to rewrite the build process for DLE using Maven. This won't be trivial, as their project structure is very different from what Maven recommends. After running the project files through JDepend, it appears that there are quite a few cyclic dependencies. I need to figure out what they are and see if they can be resolved.

Need to find and install a MSSQL client. Can't figure out how to do certain things using DLE's UI.

Got to learn how to use Perforce.

dima1 @ 2006-06-19T22:45:00

2006-06-20T05:57:21Z

I have a pretty good memory for faces. I can also remember names (when I care to). What sucks, though, is that I can never remember what face goes with what name.

I also have a kinda location specific memory for people. So if I see someone in place A, I will recognize them again in place A, but not in place B. Weird, huh?.. So the other week, I was in the Living Room and there was this girl sitting across the room from me. She looked familiar, but vaguely enough that I thought I was making it up. An hour later I went to the Firehouse for some lindy hopping and their she was again. Only this time I immediately knew her name and that we'd taken like a bunch of classes and danced together a bunch of times. At least she was a good sport and didn't take my ignoring her personally.

So, if you kinda know me and happen to bump into me, but I barely acknowledged you existed, that cuz I didn't recognize you out of the environment I'm used to seeing you. So, the next time just come over, yell at me and hit me over the head. You have my permission... but only if you know me... you MAY NOT hit me if you are a total stranger... but then, i guess you wouldn't know who I am anyway.

dima1 @ 2006-02-08T08:32:00

2006-02-08T16:34:52Z

What has my world come to. Yesterday I found myself writing this horrid sentance in an email: *** has asked me to find out whether the IAP table reflects a recent change in the assessment percentage for non-represented employees. Oh, the HORROR, the HORROR!!! I have no recourse left, I may as well join in singing

People,
We didn't choose to be bureaucrats
No that's what our mighty Ja made us
We treat people like swine and make them stand in line
Even if nobody paid us

...slowly walking away, my head hanging in shame...

dima1 @ 2006-01-30T12:49:00

2006-01-30T21:09:48Z

I can't believe it's already the end of January!!! The immediate suckiness of this is that I still haven't gone snowboarding this season. With the weather being so damn warm, I dont' feel like hitting the slopes. The new gear is rusting on the balcony. What a waste of money that was. On a brighter side, I'm going to Tahoe for the President's day. For 5 days. Hopefully I'll get snowboarding out of my system then. I'm also thinking of flying to London to see Mark and to join him and his friends on a skiing trip to Germany. That would be supper cool and it gives me something to look forward to. Otherwise my life currently is...

... this brings me to the next point about this already being January. More precisely, January 2006. I cannot believe it's been three years since I started my job here at the school of medicine. I cannot belive it's been a year and a half since my trip to Portugal. I cannot belive it's been a year since I got my condo. I cannot believe I haven't gone rockclimbing in a year. I cannot belive it's being 6 months since R and I broke up (and I'm still not completely over it). I cannot believe it's been three months since Halloween...

I was about 13 or 15 when I first read The Time Machine. I don't remember much about the book (I haven't seen any of the movies). But I vividly remember the last time travel into the future, towards the end of time. Sun rising and setting, tide coming in and out and empty, destitute space illumed by red flicker of the dying Sun. ...Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset murky, dark, dead... that's my life now.

...time to start pushing the damn pendulum the other way...

Top 10 why geeks make good dads.

2006-01-24T18:23:15Z

Finally, some recognition :)

http://spaces.msn.com/members/imhelendt/Blog/cns!1pLLf-75vbkScDmJSvitLgBA!490.entry

dima1 @ 2006-01-16T09:44:00

2006-01-16T17:46:41Z

I think I've just come up with a forumula for determinig when we have succeeded in Iraq. We will know that Iraq has become a stable and democratic society when they start producing and exporting to the world videos like this one: http://jwz.livejournal.com/590382.html

gotta luv flickr

2006-01-06T23:58:30Z

Trick or Treat
Originally uploaded by khayes.

I think I have a new favorite photo :)

Good, help me

2005-10-11T02:44:33Z

I'm sitting in Cafe Roma desperately trying to concentrate on getting reading for the Wednesday night lecture. Right next to me sorority girls are conducting post rush interviews.... goooood heeelp meee!!!! throw me a gun or a piece of rope. PLEEEEASE

online dating sites

2005-10-05T18:05:24Z

I do realize that online dating sites are useless... at least to me... or to any person with less than average looks, but I like trying them anyone. It's kinda fun. A perverse type of fun, but fun nonetheless. On some level going to these sites might be giving me a false glimmer of hope or lulling me into thinking that I am after all haven't given up finding a normal woman and am still looking. Anyway, a few days ago I signed up for this new site called True.com. Well, that was a complete dud. The site barely has a thousand members and even of those many are fake. Yesterday, I got about 6 "wink" emails from the "members", all 6 of these came into my mailbox at the same. Wow, what a coincidink. The funniest part happened this morning. Once again, I got a mail from the service and here's what it said:

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Hey xxxx,

Be the first to email inlineskategrl, She's new to TRUE, and might be looking for a man just like you!
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Uhm... I think their system got somethig wrong. I'm not looking for a MAN :)))))

Sheesh, and they expect people to pay for this??? I can't believe some fools do.

Pendulum

2005-09-22T15:53:15Z

"You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world propertly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day."

Do I think I was born under the wrong sign? I'll have to revisit this later...

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers tech us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us".

After reading this, I had a flash back to my favourite quote from "Almost Famous" -- "The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool"

What others call profundity is only a tesseract, a four-dementional cube. You walk in one side and come out another, and you're in their universe which can't coexist with yours"

WTF?..

20050920_SanDiego_Lightning03

2005-09-20T19:19:04Z

20050920_SanDiego_Lightning03
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Here's a picture of a lightning storm I mentioned in my last entry.

dima1 @ 2005-09-20T00:36:00

2005-09-20T07:52:13Z

i'm playing with my new ibook tonight. It's so neat! I fill like I've betrayed my old powerbook which has served me for 5 years. ...5 years... I was so proud when I bought it. I wanted to do a lot of video editing back then. Never happened... No, not really true. I had made a few movies with it before it's firewire port went dead. A few days ago the entire computer finally died, just went blank, puff... like that. The timing really sucked, though, as I need to pay back Mark in a month and I'm still over a grand short. Exactly the amount I spend on the new iBook. But i need a loptop for a class i'm starting to teach in a few weeks. Anyway, so tonight was a night of playing with my new cool, shiny computer. It's so much more powerful then the old one. I finally got space to dump my ipod files (wow, the thunderstorm's really kicking outside). Oh, yeah, i got a free ipod mini as part of the ibook deal. Got ot figure out what to do with it. My sis doesn't want it, she wants a big ipod for her birthday. I guess I'll just sell it and use the money to buy a new cell phone. Yeh, everything is breaking down on me: my laptop, my camera, my cellphone, my car... everything is getting old and crying to be replaced.

someone left me an IM on ichat while a dozed off an hour ago. just said "hi" and signed off (shit, i believe it's hailing outside) i don't recognize the screen name. dammit, i want to know who that was. I don't know that many people online.

got to email Melanie. her coming over is the only bright thought I have to look forward to in a near future... everything else is so... sigh... routine...

... didn't make much progress on the Pendulum...

Foucault's Pendulum

2005-09-19T03:22:43Z

I've picked up Foucault's Pendulum again hoping to read it. This would make it the forth time in the last 15 yeats. 10 pages was the longest I've managed to date. Maybe this time I'll finally get through the entire. After all, it took me two tries to get into Clockwork Orange. I like the language of the book... at times... but other times it's incredibly boring. Still:

The time it took the sphere to swing from end to end was determined by an arcane conspiracy between the most timeless of measures: the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of π, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.

In other words: T = 2π √ [L/g]. Mesmerizing! Lol, i'm just a geek :))

dima1 @ 2005-09-16T00:00:00

2005-09-16T06:43:09Z

Went to Steve McCurry's lecture at MOPA earlier tonight. Well "went" is an overstatement. The lecture was supposed to start at 7pm, but by 5:15pm all tickets were sold out. I had no idea and showed up as the last idiot at 7:10. Since I was already there, I figured I might as well look at the exhibits. Didn't really like McCurry's photos that much, but they are also exhibiting pictures of Graham Flint. Oh, boy, these are very good. He takes pictures with a custom (self made) digital camera that give him a 1000 Mega Pixel (yes, one TERA pixel) resolution. Some photos were blown up to 5 feet tall, others, panoramic, where good 15 feet wide. I swear, when I saw the first pictures on the wall, I thought it was done on a canvas with texture. It was as real as I never thought an image could be.

IMG_0174

2005-09-13T16:07:51Z

IMG_0174
Originally uploaded by mengmenger.

testing blogging from flickr

dima1 @ 2005-09-09T00:14:00

2005-09-09T07:12:36Z

did two new things today: 1) went shooting at the shooting range in clairemont; 2) organized a little bbq in Doyle park to celebrate my sister's last day in SD. Why don't I do these things more often?

faith doesn't excuse ignorance

2005-09-06T18:58:40Z

From a CNET article:

Creationism, the theory that today's life-forms look pretty much like they did at the beginning of time, is fairly popular, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.

Forty-eight percent of Americans said that human beings and other life-forms evolved over time, but 42 percent said they believed that life-forms have remained the same since the dawn of time.

A full 38 percent said creationism should replace evolution in public school curricula. Meanwhile, 64 percent said creationism should be taught in schools alongside evolution.

There is nothing wrong with believing that the universe was created by a higher (divine) being, after all, we don't have any hard facts that it wasn't. But believing that life forms haven't changed in spite of all facts has nothing to do with religion or faith. It's simple, down to earth ignorance and lack of basic knowledge and I don't see how giving children even less proper education would solve the problem. Should we just switch to educating by polling? If the majority of people start believing that Earth is flat, yeh, let's start teaching that too. Goddamn, I hate politicians.

dima1 @ 2005-03-13T14:57:00

2005-03-13T23:01:23Z

a coworker discovered my xanga blog and now the entire office is probably reading it (hey, just cuz i'm paranoid, doesn't mean they are not after me). thank you much, but I prefer to keep my private and professional lives separate... so I may as well move my random and rare drivels here. until, that is, i screw up again by leaving the journal open on my work computer. i s'pose i could simply sing up on xanga under a different name. oh, well... i kinda like the san diego community on lj so why not just stay here?..