http://stevec.qiguang.net The neverending search for EXP Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:21:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past few weeks, Rukia (Sony Vaio SZ480) has been running quite hot (up to 94 degrees C) when at full load with video intensive applications. That's pretty insane. This week I finally got around to addressing this issue. I bought a Zalman notebook cooler, which ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/10/24/undervolting-and-a-notebook-cooler/ For the past several days, the Nocturne (or Notturno) from Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has been in my head-- specifically the opening theme played on the horns (youtube). There's a mixture of sadness, resignation, hope, and resolve in those simple opening phrases. This is one of ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/10/09/mendelssohns-notturno-from-a-midsummer-nights-dream/ I'm only going to say one thing on this topic. Never before has so much been asked of so many to bail out so big a problem created by so few people. Now I gotta get back to work. http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/10/01/financial-crisis/ I don't know if anyone has been paying attention, but there's been some interesting background music being played at the Olympic games this year. In the beach volleyball games, in between points, they played Naruto theme music a couple times. And just now, as NBC introduced the men's ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/24/background-music-in-the-olympics/ Congratulations to Michael Phelps on winning his eighth Olympic gold medal and making everyone at NBC wish they could have his baby. via patrickmoberg http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/17/all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips/ My desktop is like my room.  Usually I keep it pretty clean.  Then at some point a switch goes off, I suddenly don't care anymore, and junk ends up all over the place-- random media files, shortcuts, readme files to programs I don't remember installing, etc..  I can tolerate this ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/10/desktop-cleaning/ I finally got around to installing Firefox 3 on my laptop just now, and have spent the last several minutes trying to figure out why my userchrome wasn't working like it did in 2.x.  I'm used to having all buttons, menus, and the address bar on a single line at ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/10/firefox-3-userchromecss-and-bookmarks-menu/ So I'm watching the opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics, and during a break I see a commercial for a car that advertises "MP3 connectivity." Does that sound wrong to anyone else? MP3 is a file format, not a hardware specification. Say I have MP3s on a ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/08/commercials-ads-for-dummies/ I'm writing a web application that requires me to use PHP to output Javascript code, and one of my lines is the following: echo "fund.Data={$ydata};\n"; This caused a Javascript error, which didn't make sense to me until I realized that the squiggly brackets weren't being printed, so the output was actually: echo "fund.Data=$ydata;\n"; This ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/08/07/php-quotes-and-squiggly-brackets/ ... you see smiley faces in your regex expressions. http://stevec.qiguang.net/2008/07/26/you-know-youre-a-geek-when/