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Monthly Archive for January, 2008
I’m finally going to sleep in my bed tonight after two weeks of sleeping on the couch. Basically, I’ve been using my bed as a shelf for the last two weeks since moving back from my long stay at home in Vancouver and I finally got around to clearing it off enough to sleep on tonight. I look forward to the enjoyable 4 hours of sleep I’ll be getting before I start working tomorrow at 8am.
Also, I’m trying out MarsEdit as per this comment. So far I think I like Ecto better.
Freaking amazing.
I have been using google’s search history on and off (mostly on) since Nov 2005. Since then I’ve logged 15,892 searches, quite impressive. Google ever so kindly provides nice data on my search history and I thought I’d share.
Top sites
- en.wikipedia.org
- www.washington.edu
- www.apple.com
- www.w3schools.com
- digg.com
- www.google.com
- sports.espn.go.com
- www.kappaalphaorder.org
- developer.apple.com
- www.php.net
Interesting. Wikipedia is on top because whenever I want to learn anything about anything I type “the_thing wiki” as a google search. This is because Google’s search is a lot faster than Wikipedia’s own search and putting “wiki” in the search string makes the wikipedia result the first (pagerank ftw). Washington.edu makes sense because I do “site:washington.edu” searchs a lot. Apple.com and developer.apple.com results top the 10 because instead of typing in apple.com/store I usually just google apple store and I did this quite a bit while I was looking t by my Mac and accessories the developer site was strictly for the ADC discount that I got on my Mac. W3schools and php.net are to serve my developer needs. I use google to search Digg stories I’ve seen because google’s search is much faster and more accurate that digg’s horrible search engine. ESPN is up there because I look up sports standings and scores all the time. The last result I haven’t mentioned is www.kappaalphaorder.org. The KA website is poorly structured and it is hard to find what I want so usually I just search “site:kappaalphaorder.org term_here”.
I find it very interesting that a large percentages of my google searches are very targeted (at apple, wikipedia, digg, kappa alpha order and the university of washington in particular) because the sites themselves are poorly structured or have bad built in searches. But alas, Google to the rescue!
Here is my Capstone Madness Video that I’ll be showing in class tomorrow. We were tasked with creating a 1 minute description of our capstone project and I decided I’d get a little creative. Let me know what you think!
Capstone Madness Video (viddler.com). — The embedded flash was breaking my site.
Edit: this breaks my site in firefox? Grr viddler…
Well, I’m all caught up on:
CSI (Las Vegas)
Chuck
Heroes
Reaper
House
and so I decided to start a new show: Dexter. So far I’ve seen S01E01 and I think its going to be pretty sweet. It is about a serial killer that preys on … other serial killers. I started the second episode at 1:00am last night and decided to go to bed after the intro (before the show started) due to the time but, I’m excited to watch my way through season one and then start on the currently running second season.
CSI has been crazy this season I won’t spoil it for those who might have not seen the eps but lots of craziness, glad I got caught up (I stopped watching at the midseason break last year because I got too busy during winter quarter and didn’t have time for all of my shows).
House has been hilarious the drama of the hirings and firings have definitely been fun.
Chuck and Reaper I consider novelty shows, each are funny and entertaining but if they didn’t come back for more seasons I wouldn’t be too heartbroken.
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