Thu Tu’s Blog

Wow, Matt got me good with his hacked blog.
April Fool’s Day is one of my favorite days of the year… it’s almost like Christmas to me. I’m pretty good at detecting pranks, and since I am aware of the day, I am especially more wary of anything I read. Heck, I used to be the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve reached a financial crossroad, where my car loan balance is something I could reasonably pay off 6 months early and I’ve recently gotten a windfall. I chatted with a friend who is much better with numbers than I am and he pretty much said that paying off the loan won’t save me that much [...]

It’s official! Google has published the list of participating mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2007: Coppermine’s profile page
Student Application
Here’s information for students on how to apply.
Mentors
Coppermine Developers who have volunteered to be mentors:
Thu Tu
Abbas Ali
Aditya Mooley
Dr. Tarique Sani
Contact Information
I’m the administrator representing Coppermine. If you have questions that others may benefit from [...]