Elliot Lee » 2006 » March » 07 http://www.intelliot.com/blog Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What’s moving from the old theme? http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/whats-moving-from-the-old-theme/ http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/whats-moving-from-the-old-theme/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:46:59 +0000 Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/03/07/whats-moving-from-the-old-theme/ Okay, I said I would only post when I had a picture, but any image suffices: even a screenshot.

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This is what my blog used to look like. What did it have that K2 doesn’t?

In the sidebar

  • Categories
  • Feeds
  • AdSense link
  • Firefox link
  • Add to My Yahoo link (did anyone use this?)
  • “Looking for a play to watch?”
  • FeedBlitz subscribe box

In the main content area

  • Google link ads
  • Google text ads
  • “Pages” links (not WordPress pages)
  • gsearchblog button
  • Feedburner button
  • Google search box

Over the next few days, I might be copying these things over. Right now, I’m still deciding whether I like them or not.

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]]> http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/inline-asides/feed/ 0 Largest Employer in Los Angeles http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/largest-employer-in-los-angeles/ http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/largest-employer-in-los-angeles/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:08:28 +0000 Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/03/07/largest-employer-in-los-angeles/ It look me awhile to find this information, so I thought I’d post about it and hopefully help someone somewhere find this info faster than I did.

I read a random article about Campaign UCLA, and in the “About UCLA” paragraph at the bottom, it said: “California’s largest university, UCLA enrolls approximately 38,000 students per year…UCLA employs more than 27,000 faculty and staff…“ I remember reading that USC is the largest private employer in the city of Los Angeles, so I thought I’d look up the numbers and see how they compare.
In 2002, the latest employers in Los Angeles County were:

Employer Main or Local Headquarters Number of Employees
County of Los Angeles

Los Angeles

93,354
Los Angeles Unified School District

Los Angeles

78,085
Federal Government*

Los Angeles

56,100
University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles

36,354
City of Los Angeles

Los Angeles

35,895
State of California (non-education)

Los Angeles

32,300
Kaiser Permanente

Pasadena

27,635
Boeing Co.

Long Beach

23,468
Ralph’s Grocery Co.

Los Angeles

17,211
Long Beach Unified School District Long Beach 14,000
Bank of America

Los Angeles

11,943
Walt Disney Co.

Burbank

11,200
Target

Pasadena

10,993
SBC Pacific Bell

Los Angeles

10,670
CPE

Los Angeles

10,245
Northrop Grumman Corp.

Los Angeles

10,000
University of Southern California

Los Angeles

9,297

Source: LA Almanac

But this list seems to include (1) some companies outside of Los Angeles, and (2) employees that are not employed in Los Angeles. From the LA Downtown news, the largest downtown employer:

COMPANY

  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Website
    		•  EMPLOYEES

  • Downtown
  • Companywide
    		•  PROFILE

  • Year company was founded
  • Parent company
  • Corporate headquarters
    		•  CORE BUSINESS TOP LOCAL EXECUTIVE

  • Name
  • Title
    		•

    Another note: “Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest urban area in the nation.” Source (The only larger city is New York.)

    ]]>     http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/largest-employer-in-los-angeles/feed/ 0     CSS Reboot, or USC Webfest? http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/css-reboot-or-usc-webfest/ http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/css-reboot-or-usc-webfest/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:57:50 +0000 Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/03/07/css-reboot-or-usc-webfest/ The Webfest is due by the end of March, while the CSS Reboot is May 1st.

    “54 days to go until May 1st.” I’ve signed up for the Reboot.
    Webfest: “Wednesday, March 29, 2006.”

    I’ve also signed up for Webfest, a contest for USC students. I don’t expect to win; my site isn’t designed like those.. it’s not really made to show off. Well, I have much to do..

    ]]>     http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/css-reboot-or-usc-webfest/feed/ 2     Daniel; Guitar Midterm http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/daniel-guitar-midterm/ http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2006/03/daniel-guitar-midterm/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:51:38 +0000 Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/03/07/daniel-guitar-midterm/ I found Daniel’s blog by searching Google for the number 23 usc. It’s neat — a step above the Xangas that everyone seems to have. Though I don’t know him particularly well, we both go to USC, are members of InterVarsity Trojan Christian Fellowship, and we both went to the Fall Conference. His blog is very well-written, in my opinion. Most posts are the perfect length, and he includes a photo or two with most posts. I should do that, and I would if I wasn’t so lazy about transferring pics from my cell phone to the computer. I have a digital camera now, but I never find an occasion to use it.

    I had my guitar midterm today. It went reasonably well. I’m in MPGU 120a with Nick Stoubis. We had to play (1) the C major scale, (2) Danny Boy, and (3) Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles. I practiced almost day and night for the past several days, and I think it paid off. Though I got incredibly nervous for no reason and was also stuck by hunger right before the performance exam. Oh well. A little mistake — shouldn’t be a big deal.

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