Archive for May 9th, 2004

File Name Warning

I’m seeing the exact same thing as this person on my computer.

I am working on a computer (XP-Pro) that comes up with the following message every time it is booted.

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New Layout

I grabbed a layout and then integrated WordPress’ PHP code to work in it. There are a bunch of bugs, the worst being that the column on the right goes all the way to the bottom if there are any posts on the page which are too wide. Also, the lines for the div boxes don’t match up. It’s a pretty nice design, but I’ve got to tweak it more to get it to fit WordPress.

Something I Learned This Year

What’s really struck me this school year is my lack of friends. I’m different from typical people. Very different. I don’t watch TV. I don’t have a cell phone. I don’t visit other people. Heck, I rarely leave my computer. But I’m going to need to. Amazing things are accomplished when people work together - the tough part being, finding the right people to work with. Unfortunately, I have a horribly difficult time remembering anyone’s names. If I don’t talk to someone at least four times per week, chances are good I do not know their name, no matter how many times I’ve heard it in the past. This is one reason why I’m too shy to make friends. And then, I don’t want to become like other people who are dependent on friends to get any work done. Once people get others that they can depend on, I’ve noticed that they tend to call them constantly, asking about homework. That’s like being a leech.

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Using Google to Redirect

Just stumbled upon this through a page on Blogger (they’ve got a new layout and a ton of other new stuff today, by the way).

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Slashdot | Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing

Quote from the comments unrelated to the story…

Well, it’s like UNIX, it’s userfriendly, it’s just selects it’s friends very carefully.

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