How to Get a Free Trip to India/Africa. (aka ‘the Great Textbook Arbitrage’)

When I was in Bangalore this past weekend (more on my trip to London and India in a subsequent post), I was helping my cousin study for some Computer Science exams. She needed to get a textbook, so I…

First travel post. Seoul!

I’m finally getting around to writing about some of my world travels. I suppose it’s fitting that I’m writing this on a Delta flight. Thank god for in-seat power! And for complimentary upgrades to first class!

Where to start? I guess it makes sense to just intersperse ‘historical’…

The madoff scandal

My blog was supposed to be about my various travels throughout the world. But, alas as things usually go, plans and reality diverge.

I’ve been reading about the Madoff scandal with some incredulity — what kind of people would hand over so much money, and a carte blanche…

Good random password generation

I’m in the process of moving this blog, and in doing so, needed to generate a good random password for a MySQL account. This is the command I used on my Mac (using the terminal). Replace the ‘10’ with the length you want!

Linux is not immune from “blue screens of death”

I saw this stuck sign in a washroom in Edmonton:

Adobe CS4 Updater and Mac with Snow Leopard. (also, instruments.app)

I just reinstalled my computer, and was having issues: After installing Adobe Creative Suite 4, the Updater (which generally updates software _too_ frequently) checked for updates and then kept proclaiming that…