Temporary Hiatus
I’m going to take a break from the internet until September 1st so I can fully devote myself to Google SoC/UW Finals. Goodbye everyone.
(I’ll still be using email, mostly for SoC. And I’ll still be updating my project progress.)
Updates from August, 2005 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Kevin Chiu
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Kevin Chiu
My ideas aren’t lame?
A few years ago, I tried to sell my dad on the idea of having a scroll ball on top of a mouse, but he just laughed at me and said getting a patent isn’t easy. He went on to show me the USPTO.gov website and said I would have to read every patent containing the word “scroll” and “mouse” and study them for prior art. I read about two pages of patents (about 100) and gave up. I pitched my idea to a few people I met at school, but even though some poeple thought it was interesting, most said it had no application and that the vertical scroll wheel was a better suited for scrolling in the only direction that mattered.
Well, now I can say, “I told you so.”
(I now keep all my patent ideas in a text file on my desktop.)
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Kevin Chiu
Silicon Valley
(Courtesy of Google Earth)
So, this is Silicon Valley.
I wonder why the water is so colorful.
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Kevin Chiu
Status Update
EE: Pretty good, only missed 8.5 pts so far this quarter, out of 730 pts. Probably not enough for a 4.0 though. Need to review chapter on RLC circuits.
Math: After I memorize the Laplace theorems, which are unfortunately unnamed in our textbook, and reviewing the method of annihilators for constant coefficient second order diffeq’s, I should be fine.
SoC: I need to get my feet wet with the Eclipse RCP. Unfortunately, reading the help.eclipse.org file felt suprisingly similar to reading a very long advertisement or watching a late-night infomercial.
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Kevin Chiu
Weird green mosquitoes
I’m currently being pestered by some green mosquitoes.
There was also a very strange spider, which had very large fore limbs and very small hind limbs, suspended from the ceiling directly over the kitchen table.I think I’m developing a fear of biting/stinging/poisonous insects.
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Desmond Odham
What it could be useful for?
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chantel
im gonna flip out if i see another green mosquito. im calling the swat team if i experience the horror again.
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Brian 12:19 pm on August 10, 2005 Permalink
Hey Kevin, i saw your comment at kevinrose.com that said you’re worried about bandwidth for your pod/vidcast?
Well look into libsyn.com. They offer great hosting packages. You don’t pay for bandwidth. Instead you get a package that gives you a certain amount of storage per month. The at the end of the month your storage gets reset. You don’t lose files, you just get more room.
Check it out at http://www.libsyn.com. And if you do signup, could you use me as the referral? my libsyn name is defiradio.
HTH