Thu Tu’s Blog

This is the night before the deadline for student applications. Remember: the extended deadline is March 26 at 5pm PDT.
I’m going through the applications submitted to Coppermine for Google Summer of Code and have encountered a few server errors. I’ve made comments and evaluations where they didn’t go through. I had to confirm whether the [...]

It was a gorgeous Friday morning as I drove to work. Sunnyvale was living up to its name. I had the sunroof open. The DJ on the radio said something about “Ugly Betty” being picked up for the next season. Additionally, several ABC shows were listed. The best news was hearing that the show that [...]

I’ve figured all the issues I had with upgrading to Firefox 2 and now all three of my computers are running the latest version with no problems.
The previous issues that made me revert to Firefox 1.5 after attempting the upgrade:
Lost bookmarks
It turned out what made the bookmarks disappear upon upgrade was that the Firefox process [...]

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/003904.html
As someone who loves to read the news, the Google Personalized homepage is really handy for me. Now Google has added a new feature to add a little pizazz to the page: dynamic themes. When I first read the initial announcements I didn’t expect much… just the ability to change colors.
When the feature was finally [...]

Sometimes, interesting or funny things happen to me. Unfortunately, I can’t always blog about them because it might incriminate/embarrass the not-so-innocent. That’s one bad thing about people being able to find me from search engines… the parties involved can come across my blog. It’s too bad for my readers. However, I don’t want to be [...]

It’s 9pm on Monday and my Tivo doesn’t have on the red light, which would have indicated that it was recording Heroes. This is one reason why I don’t like to watch a tv series while it is broadcasted. For example, I would buy Alias DVDs when they came out, months after the end of [...]

Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts
The Internet Archive, archive.org, goes around the web and stores copies of websites indefinitely. This is a useful resource when the information is no longer available and you want to view a copy of it. It’s not so great for webmasters who want to have no evidence [...]