Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
EM was unreachable during most of the day today. The culprit seems to be a deviant configuration file in the web server, as expressed in this email from Scott (a DreamHost customer representative):
Elvis,
Sorry for the trouble. There was a misconfiguration with the web server.
Everything looks to be up and running ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The blogging interlude will probably continue for a few more days. My writing time has become nonexistent since I traveled back to Dominican Republic a week ago.
In the interim, here's a list containing a few articles I think are worthwhile (I'm not writing as much, but I'm still reading voraciously ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Nicholas Carr's article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, is a far-reaching piece of reading regardless of your field of study or work:
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Women's absence in information technology (IT) has always been the norm rather than the exception. The exact reason behind this situation is still eluding many of us:
And teenage girls are less interested in computer science than they are in other scientific fields. Only 12% of the finalists in the 2005 ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
After much thought and anticipation, I finally decided to buy my own domain and fully embrace web 2.0 in all its wondrous splendor. I was a little bit reluctant at first. Why would anyone pay for hosting and a domain name if free blogging services abound? Moreover, why would anyone ...
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