Thu Tu’s Blog

Just a reminder to double-check your clocks for the right time today. “Fall back” if the clocks haven’t changed themselves.
I remember when I was a kid in elementary school, my dad said that the time changed. I thought he was pulling my leg. So I ignored his instruction to change my clock/watch. That Monday morning, [...]

I decided to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 despite it being officially out for only one day. The upgrade process was really quick. When I restarted Firefox, I noticed a huge empty space where my bookmarks used to be. I thought, no problem, I’ll right-click on the toolbar and enable Bookmarks. But it was already enabled. [...]

My sister gave me her bottle of Grannick’s Bitter Apple. It is a taste deterrent to keep dogs/cats from biting/eating inappropriate things. I sprayed it on the handles of plastic bags my cat would chew on. My cat would check out the bag but wouldn’t chow down on it like dessert.
It also worked to keep [...]

I just saw a commercial for the Lexus LS, which parallel parks itself!! Woohoo!
Well, I am not buying a car soon, but it’s reassuring that the technology will be around the next time I buy a car. I live in the suburbs where I rarely have to deal with parallel parking. However, when I go [...]

This is so cool… I can create my own search engines using Google. I can pick the sites that I want Google to show results from. For example, I have two domains. I can create a search engine that makes it possible to search both sites. For now, I’ve just called it the Thu Tu [...]

I’m testing a Writely* feature that lets us write in Writely and then publish to our blog. It was easy to set up although for a moment I thought that my Wordpress blog wasn’t supported. It helped that I followed the instructions to see the api I needed to select for my blog.
If this works, [...]

Eclipse does not come with support for handling Python. There are a few plugins that add python support to Eclipse. I decided upon PyDev because it seemed to meet my needs best.
First, download and install Eclipse. Actually, there’s not much of an installation. You just need to extract the huge zip file.
Use the Eclipse Update [...]