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Fortunately I’m not affected at all by the added day of Bay Bridge Closure, but this quote about the repair amazes me: The parts needed to make the fix were manufactured overnight by Stinger Welding Inc. in Coolidge, Ariz. Weighing about 18,000 pounds, they landed at Oakland International Airport aboard a chartered plane Sunday afternoon.Continue reading “Bay Bridge Logistics”

Yahoo! Korea presented to Yahoo! Research Berkeley yesterday and showed us some of their work. I was completely blown away, and the meeting left a strange taste in my mouth, something akin to “I wish I lived in Korea.” Yahoo! provides a service called Site Explorer that allows webmasters to do research on how theirContinue reading “Yahoo! Korea: Webzari”

I’ve been hearing a lot of rumor and fact thrown around in conversations about bedbugs. They seem to be entering the popular consciousness in a big way, probably because most people are starting to have real personal interaction with the pests. Until now, they’ve been somewhat of an anachronism, something your grandmother would talk about.Continue reading “Bedbug status quo”

While cooking Thanksgiving dinner with my mom over the weekend, I had the privilege of reorganizing her entire kitchen from the bottom up. Buried deep amidst the cherry pitters, pre-microplane zesters, and other seldom-used implements I found two items that are completely outside of my culinary vocabulary: Tool 1 Tool 1 (alternate framed view) ToolContinue reading “Kitchen quiz”

Once upon a time I had a friend who had a small website. We were such good friends that I became a poster child for said website, and everyone was happy. The sun was shining that day. Then a BIG CORPORATION acquired the website, and corporate policy ensued. Privacies were policied, and policies were privatized.Continue reading “Upcoming superstar”

There are a number of studies that show younger people connecting more via instant messaging and SMS than other forms of communication. The Digital Chosunilbo reports that this transition has covered Korea under a veil of silence: If in an age of near-ubiquitous communication people have become paradoxically quiet, it is because means of communicationContinue reading “Being quiet and cool”

I’m at the point where I’m beginning to think about actually writing my Ph.D. thesis, and that means deciding what to write it in. My last experience in this realm was a disaster: with three hours to finish and print my Masters thesis, my sections automagically renumbered themselves, something that took me an hour toContinue reading “Typesetting my thesis”

An organization has arisen in NYC to help support those individuals arrested during Critical Mass events under the name Freewheels Bicycle Defense Fund. This past weekend they hosted an inaugural fund driving event in Brooklyn that apparently made upwards of $4k for the legal battling bikers. According to my friend Jamie, most, if not allContinue reading “Bicycle Defense Fund”

The symptoms started about two weeks ago when I first noticed that my 12″ Powerbook’s hard drive was on the fritz. My applications slowed down, movies stopped playing halfway through, and I was finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Then today when I went into my local Apple store forContinue reading “Laptop Withdrawal Affective Disorder”

I’ve been dealing with this problem with my Powerbook 12″ lately which has been the source of neverending frustration: while using my laptop occassionally the keyboard will stop working. For a while I thought that the only way to cure my ill computer was to reboot it, and with Google providing no help, I wasContinue reading “OS X keyboard locking issue”