Trapped at Berkeley

Today, I selected my dorm room for next year at the Berkeley Housing and Dining Room Draw. I’ll be living in Foothill Hillside 7A30A with a (currently) freshman Chemistry major.

It’ll be interesting living in a Foothill Hillside double — I’ve lived in a Bowles Hall single for the past two years. I’ve loved Bowles Hall for its proximity to the College of Chemistry, but Foothill Hillside isn’t much further away. Furthermore, while singles offer the most privacy and personal space, they also tend to get lonely. I look forward to the new experience of living with someone else.

I’m still angry at Housing and Dining though…

nintendo themes, a cappella – video

300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

Tracker Trail – Fire – Can of Coke and a chocolate bar
let there be fire!

Tags: Database schemas
an analysis of database schemas for managing tags

Now that all my midterms are over, I’ve been able to dedicate some time to working on my web hosting company, coldray.com. Our system has been up for a few months, and a user-friendly control panel is now undergoing testing. This weekend, I’ve added one more component to our web hosting offerings: self-service support in the form of a wiki.

coldray.com’s wiki is based upon MediaWiki, the same wiki software that powers the venerable Wikipedia. Although MediaWiki doesn’t provide all the features I would like, I chose it because of its popularity and active development. Those two factors distinguish it from the other open-source wiki programs — I can rest assured that security holes will be discovered and patched in a timely matter, and more features implemented as the number of users and their feature requests increases.

So far, I’ve populated the wiki with some basic information regarding the Control Panel, how to create and delete email accounts, FTP accounts, subdomains, and MySQL databases.

Registration is currently required to edit, and only authorized users are allowed to register. I’m planning to relax these restrictions once I understand MediaWiki security better.

Chowhound’s San Francisco Bay Area Message Board: Trip report (Bendean, Delfina, Saigon City, Unicorn, etc — long)
a fairly detailed review of some Bay Area restaurants

Welcome to Wondir. Please ask a question.
ask questions. get answers.

New York Times Link Generator
avoid the annoying registration

Notice the number next to the “debian-user” label…

UPDATE: Apparently I didn’t max out gmail’s new message counter. The debian-user label counter has moved up to 10055.

noodlepie
a British blogger’s culinary adventures in Vietnam

Listings
craigslist + googlemaps == a student’s best friend

Free Programming and Computer Science Books
there’s quite a few good books here

Google Sightseeing
tour the United States without leaving your computer

MLA Auto-Generator
never fear the bibliography again

The other day, I’m at the deli and I say, “Waiter, there’s a subatomic particle in my borscht! It’s enormous! Look at it go!” So the waiter says, “I’m sorry, sir, but you know what Heisenberg says about the limitation of measuring two properties of a quantum object with infinite precision.” “But Werner Heisenberg was a big fat Nazi,” I say. So the waiter says, “I’ll get the manager.”
Patricia Marx, of The New Yorker, impersonating Albert Einstein

There’s just something about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that draws me to any mention of it…

APOD: 2005 April 1 – Water on Mars
it’s confirmed!