Home alone period coming to an end.

My mom and my sister are coming back this Friday. I gotta unweed the
front yard, mop the floor, take out the recycling stuff that’s been
piling up for a month, etc., before Friday, 21:13.
I should also go buy ingredients for making Shanghai wonton. The coming days are gonna be very very very busy.

- SwordAngel

Summer break?

Ah, summer semester is finally over, with the writing of my Principles
of Modern Management final exam last night. It’s time to… wash my
car, unweed the garden, exterminate spiders, etc… I also need to do
some work on some software projects.

It looks like I’m going to run into a few competing commitment problems in the incoming fall semester. 3 major things:

1. The usual school work (readings, assignments, etc.). A little bit
   heavier this year since I’m taking artificial intelligence, database
   design, and compiler design this year.
2. The final year software development project.
3. Helping Jawaad develop software for his SearchSafe and new Japanese hotel portal companies.

What am I going to do…

- SwordAngel

Late News…

This stuff is about a month late. I just realized it today when I
visited Ubuntu Linux’s website. Anyway, it’s a victory for the Free
Software Movement. The European Union rejected the software patent
bill. Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm.

Had the bill passed, Europeans would risk having to buy overly priced
software applications from the big software vendors in the future, with
crappy quality and full of bugs, just because the big software
companies have the money to monopolize the software patents.

- SwordAngel

Help fight spam

Visit SpamPoison to get your HTML code. All you have to do is paste the code somewhere in your webpage or blog. The way it works is this:

1. Spammers use some nasty programs called “crawlers”. Those
   programs do nothing but surfing from webpage to webpage by following
   the links, looking for e-mail addresses.
2. The crawlers also automatically send spam e-mails to those e-mail addresses.
3. SpamPoison is a website that generates random website and e-mail addresses.
4. Once the crawlers get to your page, they will follow the random link that you got from SpamPoison.
5. The
   random link leads to a webpage with even more random links that lead to
   webpages with even more random links that lead to… You get the point.
   
6. So the crawlers gets stuck surfing random links.
7. Here
   is the best part: the random webpages will have either randomly
   generated or spammers’ e-mail addresses. Because of that, the crawlers
   will send spam e-mails to spammers.
8. The crawlers keeps a huge list of randomly generated and spammers’ e-mail addresses until they run out of memory and crash.

Nifty, eh?

- SwordAngel