Optimus awesome-us

It’s Latin for optimal awesomeness, and it
describes what I’d like to do in college and beyond.
As mentioned on my “About” page, I want to go to MIT. Not mentioned in my about page (until now, just updated) is that I also want to work at Google.

Why Google?
Location
For one, their offices in Cambridge are less than [...]

The end of commercials, a proposition.

My dad is one of those people. You probably know
a couple. They never watch commercials. Never. They switch between channels, often missing a lot of the show (unless they have PiP).
It annoys me. I miss so much of the show when I watch television with him. I also hate commercials. I’ll watch ‘em, but I [...]

How WordPress’ Timestamp feature saves you a ton of headache.

I wrote this post three days before it was published.
Yesterday’s post? Also written on the 2nd.
Gone are the days when I posted more than twice a day. I now like a queue of posts. This helps when you have writer’s block. If you have a backlog of posts, the content keeps coming and you’ll eventually [...]

Why Java is seeing its final days.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it
again: I hate Java! It’s clunky and (like Flash, another thing I’m not a huge fan of) takes special add-on software to use (JRE and Java Applet Plugins and Flash Player, respectively).
But thankfully, it’s [in my prediction] not here to stay much longer for most things. It will [...]

My thoughts on the OLPC project.

Yes, I’m late, but I really do think sometimes (the
horror!) and I couldn’t find a better topic for my post today.
There’s a project called One Laptop Per Child. It aims to bring 3rd world countries laptops for their kids. One per kid. Absolutely free. It’s nice but a bit…well, just read on.
Sometimes called the $100 [...]

The Most Random Thought I’ve Ever Had

I want to get enough money to get made
diamond-encrusted gold glasses in the most nerdy shape possible.
I’d then get two rings of 1,024 karat gold. Printed on them are the words “on” and “rails” in rubies.
I’d get a solid-diamond necklace. It’d be in the shape of a keyboard. And it’d be a functional keyboard (PS/2 [...]

A usability standard proposal and a rule for forum owners.

You know how the nice people put
a warning when they link to a PDF? I like that. You know what else should have a warning associated with it?
JAVA!!! I cannot stand this: osphp.net’s 404 page includes an applet. It’s like punishing you for a 404. Do you know how LONG it takes for an applet [...]

Harry Potter is here! What’s my reaction?

No spoilers, don’t worry, I haven’t
even got my copy yet. I ordered it at Whimsic Alley, it’s in the mail.
I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad. I’ll finally learn what happens, but tell me, pottermaniacs, do we really want to know?
The series has often relied on false suspense (cause the main character will [...]

Screw SEO, I have it already!

People say, “Oh, you gotta SEO your blog if
you want traffic. It’ll get better results and BLAH FREAKING BLAH.
Blog indexing sites refer enough traffic. I’ve gotten quite a bit of traffic from Technorati (but still no comments…why do you people not comment?) and other sites I’ve never heard of. And the oddest search queries, [...]

What I want to do before I graduate high school…

The biggest thing I want to do before I graduate high school,
for my school, is to set them up with a high-end, dedicated server network. I couple for backups, one for network programs, and one or two to host their website without bandwidth or space limitations!
Once I move out into the big world, I’ll do [...]