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Grad Nite dress code, FMI (for my information :P)

DRESS FOR THE EVENING & THINGS TO LEAVE AT HOME�

� Any clothing affiliated with a school, sports team, group,
club, etc. (i.e. letterman jackets, clothing with
school logos, etc.)

� Clothing not in good repair (torn jeans, shirts, etc.). Jeans
are OK as long as they are not ripped or torn.

� Extremely revealing clothing (i.e. bathing suit tops or
bottoms, see-through clothing, etc.)

� Hats (official Disneyland� merchandise acceptable)
and other head attire, including beanies and wigs

� All backpacks, briefcases, hip packs, camera bags, tote
bags and oversized purses larger than 81/2" x 11".
Small purses and fanny packs are OK.

� Cameras, cell phones and pagers are OK. Camera and
cell phone cases are not allowed.

� Shoes with skate wheels are not allowed. Tennis
shoes and sandals are OK.

� Weapons, knives, chemical irritants of any kind,
laser pointers

� Prescription medication (inhalers are OK); all other
medications must be given to your Chaperone

� Over-the-counter medications

� Tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco,
snuff, etc.) and related material (lighters, matches,
pipes, etc.)

� Alcohol or any controlled substance

� Bandanas (worn or hanging from belt loops, pockets, etc.)

� Glass containers and/or fluids of any kind (including
water, any drinks and perfumes)

� Food and beverage (including water bottles and snack
items) Snack items include but are not limited to
gum/mints/candy (no candy containers)

� Spiked-style jewelry

� Aerosol cans/bottles

Please note: To ensure the safety of our Grad Nite Guests, it will be necessary to search all persons and their belongings before entering the park. Any item is subject to search and may be disallowed upon security discretion. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

To speed up the entrance process, all Chaperones will be required to enter with the students.

This is Disneyland� Resort's dress code. Some schools may enforce a stricter dress code.

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Posted by on May 4, 2006 11:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I've recently discovered a "campaign" to promote Firefox, the most popular open source browser. It is ran by "four politically-oriented friends who care about open source software coming out on top." I like what they are about, and also like the idea. :P

Here's thier link:

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Posted by on May 5, 2006 8:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, our school doesn't let us download and use software from school, and I can't run perl scripts from these computers, sooo...I've discovered the great world of web SSH clients.

The best one I've found is this one. Just thought I'd share this with you.

Posted by on May 12, 2006 8:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, at least for me. I used to be able to use SubEthaEdit under the personal use license. After the release of version 2.5, they have now gone to the 30-day-trial-then-pay-$35 deal. It was my editor of choice, for its snappiness, fast to launch, the ever so useful collaborative editing, and many other features. I now wonder if it is worth it to pay $35 for a text editor (or $20 as a student).

I have no idea as of yet what new features the upgrade has brought. I've recently tried TextWrangler is the one to try now. I once tried BBEdit (TextWrangler's big brother), and it felt a bit too clunky for my tastes.

I'll update this post after I give all the rest of the editors a run, and get some impressions.

Posted by on May 24, 2006 8:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, I've always wanted to make one for iComic, but never really had the chance/incentive. For a while, one of the plugins for Real Life Comics broke, and no one successfully fixed it. And it became so unbearable for someone, that they posted a $10 prize for anyone that gets it done first. So, armed with my Llama book, I began to tackle the problem. After much trial and error with downloading the HTML, parsing, regex'ing, and tinkering, I completed the plugin!

It sure did feel good. I finally used my knowledge on something useful. You can get the plugin here.

Posted by on May 27, 2006 4:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I'm currently trying out Movable Type. I like how it feels more clean in terms of design. It feels more Linux-y, compared to more Microsoft-y feel of WordPress. I don't know how to quantify this feeling, but it is there.

Well, we'll see how this works out, maybe I'll switch over some time.

Posted by on May 27, 2006 11:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, it is time to try out Movable Type. I've never really got around to playing with it. This seems pretty neat, and I think has a cleaner design in terms of the user interface.

I'm really waiting for the 3.3 beta to come out next week though.

Posted by on May 27, 2006 11:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

I found this [e]book written by Scott Adams, the father of the Dilbert we all love. Scott mentioned that it is a free ebook download on the Dilbert blog, so I downloaded it then, but I never got around to reading it, until now.

I've just read up to page 25, and it is quite thought provoking. It kind of reminded me of the lecture of a physics prof at HMC that I attended on String Theory, how everything is predetermined. Well, I won't say too much. Just download it and read it!

Posted by on May 27, 2006 11:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech Audio/Video Download

This is an amazing speech. I love it. It is definitely worth the download, both video and audio. Just the stories that Steve Jobs tells are fun to listen to, but the ideas that he talks about is also great, and is fun to think about.

I think everyone should watch this, especially todays students. It just might touch the right spot, like it did to me.

Posted by on May 28, 2006 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, it is kind of late for this particular post, as it was 2 weeks or so ago. But I'm going to do it anyways, just for the heck of it.

Prom was fun. I was planning on not going, but at the last moment, I decided, well, it is a once in a lifetime experience, so why the heck not go? It turned out much better than I expected, thanks to Benson, Sharon, Sam, Brian, and most of all, Jennifer Wong, my prom date.

The food was pretty bad, IMO. Karaoke was set up in a weird way. It was essentially a smallish theater, the singer on stage, and singing. It didn't really feel "fun." Those were the worse parts, IMO.

Next, the gambling. It was not for real money, just chips for fun. We went to the open table that had no one there, and began playing blackjack. Everyone quickly lost, other than me. Well, I just couldn't lose. Must've been my night. Anyways, I just gave up in the end, and left, as my date was getting tired of our boring dealer. There were also free caricatures. The line was quite long, but we still got one, and it was quite interesting, looking at ourselves from the eyes of another person. The dance floor was not crowded, at least where we were. It was fun overall.

Post-prom, our group went to Cat's house, for food, more karaoke, and some random fun and games. It turned out that many were a bit tired, and we were mostly zombies walking about. It was fun though, with my tonedeafness and Sam's Color of the Wind. And then imagine half asleep people trying to play Taboo. I somehow tried to express lisp by using links to gay people.

Well, the whole thing was pretty fun. Too bad I didn't have a camera. Perhaps I'll collect some photos from some other people, and post them up later.

Posted by on May 30, 2006 10:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I actually discovered this show during my admitted student program at HMC. My host(s) (which were awesome) were watching it in the dorm room. I grabbed a chair, and watched it. It was like real life Dilbert. I loved it. And now, I'll be getting more doses of The Office soon, hopefully.

Can't wait until I start going to Mudd. It is going to be so much fun!

Posted by on May 30, 2006 11:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Currently I'm slowly learning Perl from the famous Llama Book.

I've fallen in love with the language for two reasons (for now). First, it has introduced me to regular expressions, which is something I've never really got the motivation to learn until now. Second, is how easily it integrates with the *nix system. I can easily run other utilities in the script (cat, (e)grep, curl, etc.) And I'm still only half way through the book. The language attracts me because I'm not a hardcore programmer/coder, and the quick-and-dirty-ness makes it easy to write something I need fairly quickly. (for example, to download a string of online comics from a website)

This is one of the best computer books I've used up to now. It explains things in a clear way, it has a decent amount of examples and practice questions, and it has some interesting, and sometimes funny footnotes. I've enjoyed reading and learning from this book.

I've tried to start on Python with this awesome ebook, but it just didn't work for me. I guess I'm more of a tangible book person than a learn off the screen person.

Posted by on May 31, 2006 7:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)