In about nine days, I head off on an adventure! I'm headed to Tanzania to "get grounded" in doing developing regions research. My advisor and his gang will be there for the first week or so; I'll stay on for three. I'll be in Dar es Salaam, and hopefully see some rural areas as well ( Read more... )

from advisor:

What follows is the speech made by Jiddu Krishnamurti in 1929 when he dissolved the Order of the Star. The Order of the Star was the organisation built around Krishnamurti by Theosophists who selected him at the age of 13 to be the vehicle for the return of the Christ, or Maitreya. He was raised accordingly, but after his enlightment ( Read more... )

a linky from TIER mailing list:

Named as one of the top ideas in 2006 by the New York Times Magazine ( Read more... )

Title: Rwanda-based Computer Programming Mentor ( Read more... )

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I signed up for paperless billing from T-Mobile. Now they're doing a PR campaign about planting a tree if you sign up -- great. Then the lawyers get involved:

*Limit one tree per account. Must have active account and be enrolled in Paperless Billing ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system#Metadata-only_journaling

However, for asynchronous random writes, performance is actually better due to the journal making the writes logically sequential.[3]

background, hippies have taken over a few trees near and on campus for over a year. they *live* in the tree 24/7. today the police chief makes a statement. ... i hope the daily show does a bit about this too ( Read more... )

joe hellerstein is officially my advisor!

today i had the "official" grad student review meeting. feedback was pretty good.

things be getting serious:
"By the next review I'd expect a platform and initial research results on your thesis work. You own the connection to [poor folks work], make it work for you"

srly?

eric brewer:
"in 1986, the internet was broken. the internet being the tcp connection between Evans hall and lbl (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)..."

hee hee