Blogworthy

I've been reading a lot of other blogs lately, trying to figure out what makes a good one and such. It seems to come down to content, and in two kinds. First is the interest groups, something a lot of people are interested in. This would include news and hobbies and other topic specific sites. The other kind is varying in topic, but always amusing to read. The most popular of course are the ones that can pull off both of these, but it's hard when your writing about dry academic stuff and you don't have the sense of humor to get a snort out of a hyena.

Undo!

You know you have been programming for too long when after making a mistake on your math assignment, you search around the paper for ctrl-z to undo it. I've been getting a little behind in my math class and so I am trying to catch up, but sometimes it's just really hard to write and erase on a piece of paper. Maybe I'm the only one who has this problem?

Over posting

I'm tired of writing about the same old stuff all the time. I mean, who really cares how my life is going anyway? All we ever really want to read is something that might pertain to our own live, not somebody else's who lives thousands of miles away. With this in mind, I've decided to stop writing about myself in particular and start writing about myself in general. In other words, generalize whatever happens to me so that it could be applied to anyone at some level. I also am probably going to put up a lot more stuff that I find on the web that looks interesting and partially relevant.

Brain Dead

This semester is just pounding me with C/C++ programming problems. I don't mind it that much because I have wanted to learn it for a while, but when they are asking me to do 15 optimized bit wise operations... it just starts to hurt my head. I did finish it, and better optimized than probably all but 1/5 of my class, but is just felt like too much work for a simple assignment. Required homework time is increasing exponentially the closer I get to graduation.

I was thinking about redoing the site design. I would of course keep the pigs in some fashion, but then maybe just a background and a banner. All these different types and what not just causes me to not be able to read my css files. We'll see how it works out, the current version isn't all that bad, it just feels slow. As long as I have my pigs I'll be happy. Css sites are the way to go, but I think it's way to easy to go overboard.

Betrayed Again

I should stop writing about when I get into search engines, it almost invariably causes my site to stop showing up in them. As anybody who has checked the links in the previous post knows, there is no mention of my site on the first page or any subsequent pages. It's really quite annoying, but at least I know that Google and Yahoo! know that this site exists, even though they may decide not to index it. I'm not too worried though, someday it will be up permanently and I might actually get some valid traffic from them. For now it will just have to come through blogger.

Yahoo!

I was checking my logs today, and it looks like Yahoo! has indexed my site. After the google incident I'm wary of getting too excited, but from the looks of it I may be in for good. Now I just have to finish my pig pages, as that is generally what shows up in the searchs.

What's in a username

I've used the same user name since I returned home from Japan in Dec. 2002. It's my middle name backwards and has always been easy to remember for me. Also, I have never seen it in any form anywhere else. The neat thing about that is that now whenever I type it into google, it spits out most of the comments I have made on various forums under that user name. Pretty neat, huh. I suppose it would work with any username, but it depends on your uniqueness on what's going to come back to you.

Back to work

I thought school started today, but apparently it isn't until Tuesday. I don't know why they did this, but it certainly causes confusion. Despite a break from my one class on Monday, I decided that I needed the money and went to work today for the first time this year. On that note, Happy New Year!! Is it already 2005, it seems like it was just 2002 not too long ago. Somebody should do a comprehensive study on time perception based on age, I can almost guarantee that it changes exponentially with age (ie if you double your age, time seems to pass at a rate equal to the square of what it was before your age doubled). This all just makes me feel more busy and more stressed.

This semester looks to be just a lot of programming work. I finally get into C++ which doesn't look that different from Java, but a lot more powerful in a systems perspective. I did manage to pass all my classes last semester, although I expected a B from my engineering class and got a C+, and a C from my math class and got a B. Oh well, the gpa all works out in the end, and I don't have to retake any classes. The trick will be to see whether I have enough time to do all the homework as last semester I pretty much did all during lecture time which doesn't really help in understanding the material. With Ryuki getting bigger and easier to manage, it shouldn't be too hard.