Short Words to Explain Relativity. The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein explained using words of no more then 4 letters in length.

Using a Dedicated Swapfile Partition to Speed Up MacOS X. This article talks about how to create a separate partition for the swap files OS X creates. Most Unix systems require your swap files to be written to their own swap partitions, which are usually as large as the amount of RAM you have. Mac OS X does not require a separate swap partition, but some argue that having one would improve system performance.

Went to Rev last night. I wanted to go to the bomber, but Lien, Cathy and Flora were going to be at Rev, and Gary wanted to go there more. Fair enough. I'm glad I went there instead because they were playing some serious drum and bass in the purple room. It was wicked. I think everyone had a fun night out. Gary might not remember it all.

Handed in my last crypto assignment today. I have doubts about the last question, but I really wanted to go out. We had lots of fun yesterday night. Matt, Shima, Liz, Gary and I went to Fed, the last fed of the term. Signed in some strangers so they could have some fun too. Very nice way to end out the term. Might go see Maestro Fresh Wes tonight if I don't go back to toronto. Need to work on my last Graph Theory assignment.

I finished my last assignment in Formal Languages and Parsing this morning. I finished my last Linear Optimization assignment last night. To say I am getting sick of school would be an understatement. Exams are fast approaching. I need to do two more assignments and then I can study. Joy of joys.

Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. This guy has tons of apple scripts that seem quite useful. On a side note, I want an iPod so bad.

I once had a dream
So I packed up and split for the city
I soon found out my lonely life wasn't so pretty
- That's Not Me by Brian Wilson

Smart Playlists.com. This whole site is dedicated to the smart playlist feature of iTunes. People post their creative use of the feature.

The party was lots of fun. It's nice seeing my housemates acting all crazy. The varsity badminton team knows how to have a good time.

... but the house full of drunk people is far too entertaining. Some dude is filling up a garbage bag full of puke. My house mates are more drunk then I've ever seen them. We only have two bathrooms, so I really don't see how this is going to work out well. As long as there is no vomit in my room it should be all good.

... is a wicked song. I'm playing it really loudly right now because my housemates are having a party. I don't think anyone in the house notices mind you because they are all drunk off their asses.

Applications to Graduate Studies, Computer Science, UW I have to apply to grad school here at Waterloo. I wonder if I will regret that?

UofT DCS Graduate Studies: Call for Applications I need to apply for grad school at the university of toronto.

I'm redirecting requests to my old web-space at the university of waterloo here till I figure out what I want to do with it.

These online tests are always strange. This one is about what kind of social software you are. Interesting idea for a test I suppose. As you can see, I am FOAF. What does this mean? Well according to the test, "Although you're hacking out the future in RDF, you realise that all technology boils down to dating in the end." That seems true enough.

I expect to put something up here sometime soon besides the photo web-page. I'm not sure what exactly. I will continue to use blogger to maintain this page for the time being. I don't think i'll have time to work on much of anything till after exams are done with. I'm happy with this layout, though I think I need to fix the way the side bar of links looks. Any suggestions for what to do are appreciated. Check out "we must abuse the broadband". I think i'm happy with that website now, and don't expect to change it much at all.

I now own the domain funkaoshi.com You can see my website there now. I will move this site over at some point in time as well. Chances are I will stop using blogger for this site as well, and manage everything with moveable type.

Has moved again. Expect daily updates, as I've moved the whole thing over to a moveabletype back-end. I'm hoping it is a lot easier for me to update and maintain now. This site will probably be revamped too, as if I do daily updates there, I don't see the need for my very short and pointless messages here. More to come.

It snowed today. I woke up this morning to discover my alarm wasn't working. The power had gone out in the night I suppose. Lucky for me it was 7:45. I set my clock again to the correct time, re-set my alarm, and went back to bed. I woke up again to discover my alarm wasn't working. The power had gone out again. This time it was 9:30. I have class at 10:00. More importantly I have an assignment due at 10:00. I started rushing to get ready. Ready to leave, I realized that there was snow everywhere. I don't know where the hell it came from, since when I went to bed the previous night there was a thunder storm going on.
Now, at 11:20 on a Thursday night, I am writing up solutions to a graph theory assignment, and trying to figure out how to show the Diffie Hellman problem can be solved with an oracle that can compute a^(x^2) given (a^x). God Damn.

iPod Sound Quality A really good review of the iPod in terms of sound quality. There is a comparison between ACC vs. MP3, and the encoding of iTunes vs. Quicktime 6.4. All in a all a wicked page to read if you are interested in MP3s and iPods.

I've watched the last Matrix film two days ago, and the Texas Chain Saw massacre yesterday. The latter film was surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting much from a horror film, but they did quite a good job I must say. The Texas Chainsaw massacre was definitely more coherent a movie then the Matrix. Not that the matrix was bad mind you. I just think the Matrix should have been much better. I now am waiting patiently for the last Lord of the Rings film.

Damn the Graph Theory midterm was hard. My approach of, "hoping it would be easy," did not pan out so well. Hopefully I can do better on the final.

I'm back home for the weekend. Last night was spent at Jade's Halloween party. I didn't have a costume, but Jen found some jacket her mom had bought in the 70s that was pimped out to the max, so I wore that over some of my regular clothes to fit in.

Carvill came over today and we watched the second Lord of the Rings film. I can't wait for the third movie. Apparently Ju-lians fears it had been delayed were unfounded, so I'm hoping it will be out this Christmas like its predecessors.

My Graph Theory midterm on monday will be the last midterm I write for 4A. The past two weeks have been crazy.