Wow, I just read a great article about jazz’s (?) popularity in the US has dwindled in the last few years. I don’t think an article has resonated as strongly with me in several months: the author describes how he tends to focus on a song’s music, whereas his wife focusses almost entirely on the [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Libraries in Islamabad, Part 2
22Feb07This is disturbing. I just sat down to start drafting the petition/letter I want to send out about establishing a public library in Islamabad. In the interests of being factually accurate, I looked up which public libraries are operational in Islamabad right now; unsurprisingly enough, there are just 2, both fairly low-key affairs hidden away [...]
My Desktop
18Feb07For those curious what Vista looks like on an older laptop, without Aero…
Vista!
15Feb07Seems I’ve permanently broken Ubuntu. I’m not sure quite what happened — I was switching my partitions around so that /home would be off on its own, and the next thing I knew, half my documents were gone and Kubuntu wasn’t booting (’kdestartupconfig’ has troubles, apparently). Anyway, I salvaged my Windows installation and tried starting [...]
Probably very funny
10Feb07This is hilarious. (Explanation: with a fair dice, each face is equally likely to come up. Hence, the expected value is (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 3.5, rounded up to the next integer, 4.) This one’s pretty funny too. I can’t tell what the last one is though…the Laplace transform of love? As people say here, quali’y.
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