Archive for October, 2003

Reading the Bible

Friday, October 31st, 2003

p. The site “(extlink)Crosswalk.com”:http://www.crosswalk.com has a collection of references and resources for Christians who wish to work on reading and understanding the bible. I have just started with their online Bible in a Year plan, complete with a tracker, which will hopefully help to keep me on course. The track started today with [...]

Google Calculator (Google Agent?)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2003

p. “(extlink)Google”:http://www.google.com now allows you to enter math equations directly into the web search field, and it will automatically spit out results, as well as do unit conversions among other things. For instance, if you enter: speed of light * 2 then google will return the speed of light * 2 = 599 [...]

Panther Fast User Switching

Monday, October 27th, 2003

p. David Every has some criticisms of Apple’s new Panther Operating system, that in many ways seem unfounded in an article at www.iGeek.com.

My Rutgers Portal

Thursday, October 23rd, 2003

p. Rutgers updated the “(extlink)My Rutgers Portal”:http://my.rutgers.edu over the summer, with a “(extlink)uPortal 2.0″:http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/ based backend. They’ve also finally integrated some single sign on functionality, probably as part of the greater “(extlink)NetID”:http://netid.rutgers.edu that they’ve started emphasizing recently, in an attempt to move online services away from SSN/UNIX login authentication to a more centralized system.

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Contact

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

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Resume

Tuesday, October 21st, 2003

This post is maintained for archive purposes. Please see: http://jay.shao.org/resume/ for a current resume.

Comment Spam

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

p. “(extlink)Six Log: Comment Spam”:http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/10/comment_spam.shtml talks about spammers increasingly leaving comments on blogs (particularly those powered by MovableType) as in addition to the circulation you would get from email Spam, it helps to build a site’s “(extlink)Google PageRank”:http://www.google.com/technology . This problem has become prevalent that “(extlink)Jay Allen”:http://www.jayallen.org has produced “(extlink)MT-Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ a plug-in designed to [...]

Pad Thai Restaurant Review

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

p. I just had dinner again at “Pad Thai”:http://www.pad-thai.com for the first time in a while, and it really brought back how enjoyable everything was. The service was quick and friendly, with a casual feel from the start (the host pointed at various tables, and motioned for us to seat wherever we wanted. [...]

iTunes for Windows

Saturday, October 18th, 2003

p. “iTunes for Windows “:http://www.apple.com/itunes has been making quite a splash. After a couple of days of using it, I have to say that people who have been using iTunes on the Mac will probably be thrilled, and people who are used to “Winamp”:http://www.winamp.com or “Musicmatch”:http://www.musicmatch.com will probably prefer it after using it [...]

Trackbacks and Manilla

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

According to the following page: trackbacks should now be fully functional for users of Userland’s Manilla publishing system. I have to admit, while I find the concept of trackbacks fascinating, I have yet to be able to use them overly due to the fact that many of the sites I read do not [...]

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