New URL

I'm moving my blog from http://www.s93608309.onlinehome.us/ to http://sendingtransmission.blogspot.com/ as my free hosting with 1&1 is going to expire soon. I'll continue posting new photos on Flickr. I know links to old photos and image are all broken, eventually I'll get around to fixing them (probably by posting older photos to Flickr). I'll see about coming up with a better template too.

Assorted Interesting Articles

• I finished reading The World Is Flat this weekend. I thought it was good book. So I found BBC's brief comparison of China and India (as well as the US), which shows things like GDP, population, literacy, etc. with projections out to 2050, interesting.


• The Chess Olympiad started this weekend in Turin. I can't find any results on the "offical" website, but an Austrian site has a good level of detail - Team Canada Results shows them at 1-1 after 2 rounds and the individual results are given for each round.


• New York Times: Slim Margin Seems to Signal Montenegro's Independence. The EU and Serbia & Montenegro decided to use 55% as their threshold for separation. This reminded me about the whole debate surrounding 50% + 1 during Quebec's last referendum.


• Slashdot has an article Bloggers are the New Plagiarism complaining about bloggers who quote large blocks of text and don't add value. Sometimes I do that [1], but most of the time I do not [2 and 3]. My thinking is that I only quote blocks from the original article, when I think it's an valuable article, but it's from a news article that is likely to disappear (i.e. Checkout all the broken links to the LA Times in [1]). Without a copy of the pertinent parts of the article the post has no context or value. Is that a reasonable rationale?

Template

I started playing around with the template a bit...Blogger doesn't seem to want to republish the blog though. So I'm making a post to nudge it along (hopefully)...

Slacking

It is nice having only one hour of class on Mondays and Fridays. Not quite as nice as it would be to have zero hours of class, but still it makes the week seem a lot shorter. I spent too much of that free time slacking off though. I added some thumbnails to the index page for my digital photos and stylized it up a bit. I like it a lot better now. I better going and start my CO 351 assignment...

Randomness and the Netscape Browser

The Leafs are losing to Philadelphia yet again, :-( so I am working on my Cryptography homework again. The article Randomness and the Netscape Browser is kind of interesting, but perhaps not very profound.

I figure out how to add titles to my blog posts, so that can be my improvement for today. Ram sent me a copy of his blog template to use as a reference, so soon I'll make something better than the default template.

Photos!

I've copied over photos and other stuff to my new website. I've reorganized my digital photos a bit, and hopefully improved the overall quality. I've also added some new photos from Christmas and the fall (while that first one is actually from the spring). Most of the "older" photos were on my old site, but some are new additions - I'm too lazy to make a complete list, but here are a few.

I have night class for the next two days, but sometime in the near future I'll try to improve the "look-and-feel" as well as the navigation. I also want to play around with the blogger template to make the blog better too.

Webspace

The nice folks at 1-and-1 have a promotion for 500 MB of free webspace for 3 years. Ram signed up a while ago and even bought a domain name. I think I'll be a little bit less ambitious...For now I'll just copy over some of my photos and reorganize them a bit. 500 MB is a lot more space than the 10 MB my ISP Rogers gives out!

A Blog

I have too much time on my hands, so I'm starting a blog. If all goes well, I'll have a new website too with more webspace for all my photos...