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Cruising to Ensenada with my Grandpa

From October 29 to November 2, I’ll be out on a cruise with my grandpa. I’m really looking forward to it because this is just the kind of thing that taking a semester off from school allows me to do. This is our cruise itinerary: Oct 29: San Pedro Port Oct 30: San Diego, Cal…Continue Reading…

Trading a paperclip for a house

I was reading the comments on the Slashdot article about the guy who traded an unlocked iPhone for a car, and I followed a link to this Wikipedia article about one red paperclip. Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger, traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of trades spanning…Continue Reading…

CNN, please don’t turn into my mother

Laura Reeve, Daily Trojan: CNN, please don’t turn into my mother

DomainSite Rocks!

I had a domain that expired, and I was afraid it was a goner. But I sent an email to my registrar, DomainSite, and they replied the next business day saying the domain had been re-added to my account. I was able to renew it for another year with no problems. Plus, they support not…Continue Reading…

SCV = Space Construction Vehicle

I was browsing for info on the wildfire when I saw this headline: The 10 Places to Visit in the SCV Before You Die StarCraft fans understand why this is amusing. SCV is the Terran unit in StarCraft and stands for Space Construction Vehicle.

Facebook on the iPhone

I hand my iPhone to a friend and invite her to try the web browser, Safari. What’s the first site she visits? Facebook, of course. When I was at the movie theatre, and I wanted to tell people where I was, what was my only choice? Facebook, of course. Unfortunately, the Facebook interface is not…Continue Reading…