In spite of the earthquake, China’s Great Firewall still very much active

Uncategorized: May 27th, 2008

It’s no secret that China is censoring the internet over there, encouraging netizens to "advance harmony". But with the recent earthquake (and more recent aftershock) in Sichuan province, the Chinese blogosphere was mostly empathic, thus eliminating the need to "shut up dissidents." However, when bloggers start to criticize the less than sympathetic response of some [...]

Beware of Bloggers


June 4th, 2008

Test your Sobriety with Calculus

Uncategorized: February 9th, 2009

I was browsing the XKCD blog and ran into Randall’s mention of “Google’s sobriety test” (quotes are Randall’s own words): WTF?!? Even sober, fully conscious and on the mental and intellectual prime, I wouldn’t be able to solve those fast enough…if at all. Dangnabit, I’ve been a computer engineer for more than half a decade [...]