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Moving to Wordpress
OK, LJ, it's been real, but the time has come for me to move on. So now I moved to http://nikitab.wordpress.com. Why have I moved? Fair question. Here is a list:- Inability to search through contents on my own blog
- Really poor placement of ads.
- What's up with the comments page not taking on theme of the blog?
- Data portability - how do i download ( Read more... )
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Amazon Turk
Went to a talk about the Amazon Turk. Overall, the talk was ok, despite being a general introduction.
To start, some judgmental bitching on my part:
I am not sure I understood the purpose of this talk. All points were touched upon briefly and, as far as introductions go, Aaron Shaw carried the point across keeping the attention of, what looked ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on relationships...
Recently, since we ended up cooling off with an RI (Romantic Interest), I had a *gasp* new, even if unoriginal, thought. This is from an email I wrote ( Read more... ) -
Nataha's Wedding Poem - Вредные Советы.
So, my college friend Nataha just had a wedding. Long story short, hooked up with her husband Misha's cousin and he, his girl, and I ended up driving up to Philly from Boston. A week prior, MIsha's mom called and said that they have a creative program that we should participate in - I kinda blew her off given all that's happening at JoVE. ( ( Read more... ) -
Laura and Euna Continued
I am feeling quite helpless. The idiocy on the CNN site is rampant. I posted the following comment here that is now awaiting moderation:
We live in a different world now that has no borders, one where compassion and concern for humanity crosses political and geographic borders. These two girls are what is best about our generation: an unbiased, ( Read more... ) -
Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Growing up
At the risk of being egotistically reflective, I feel stupid. For those who have been living under a rock, Laura Ling and Euna Lee have just been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea (link), which means they are now either political pawns or just victims. Usually, in such cases, I feel a sort of detachment. A quasi-intellectual ( Read more... ) -
Evolution of Applications and Data
This may be trivial to other, but for me it was a realization: before we had MS Money, Quicken, etc. and now we have Wesabe, Mint, etc. Why am I not happy with Wesabe? Because it doesn't have all the functionality I want, which Quicken and MS Money have. How is this going to get solved? The same way data + presentation split up in the online ( Read more... ) -
PHP - bite me
OK, I just spent a day trying to set up PHP on Windows 2003 with IIS and SQL Server. Ugh. Not fun. So that people who come across don't have to repeat, this is what I did... I think ( Read more... ) -
Movie: Citizen Kane
Having decided to start edumicating myself on them films 'n shit, I went to my NY ex-roommate Alexis, a French dude that half of Cynthia's London seems to swoon over (Cynthia included). But this is not about Alexis. This is about Citizen Kane ( Read more... )
