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CS336 (DBMS) Exam

Sesh’s CS336 (DBMS) Exam was a tough cookie. 104.5/146 as a high score is quite a steep curve, which I think reflected the mass feeling that there was too much material for most of class to get through in a 2 hour period. I was lucky enough to score a 100/146, but I think all ...

Wedding Photos Online

Visit http://www.shao.org/gallery to view some of our wedding photos. Right now we have about 1/3 (80 photos) of our wedding photos scanned in, there will be more coming up soon.

Moved the site

I’ve moved this site off of TypePad onto my own server. Mostly I’ve done this because I want to become more familiar with the internals of the Movable Type program, and better understand how everything works.

Eric Eldred Act

Many librarians, historians, and others have become increasingly concerned at the ever-expanding reach of copyright (and patent law for that matter) both in bredth and length. The Eric Eldred is a movement to put in place an easy system to speed the transition of commercial works that authors are not recieving value from into the ...

Piles in OSX 10.3 (Panther)

There’s been a lot of web discussion about the possibility of OSX 10.3 including support for piles. It sounds like an interesting feature, and Bruce Tognazzini talks about the original research regarding piles on his website Ask tog. He talks about piles being a context sensitive data structure. I see 2 useful roles for piles: ...