Thu Tu’s Blog

On Monday 5/21, I was driving home and noticed that the XM satellite signal kept fading in and out along certain parts of the route. I take a different route in the morning and I knew for sure there was one or two flaky spots. I just wasn't sure that there were so many in [...]

Even if you're one who isn't interested in stats and graphs, Gapminder makes statistics fun!
As of this post, the home page of the Gapminder tool shows a graph of the correlation between life expectancy and country's wealth. Each bubble represents a country, with the size of the country proportional to bubble size. Clicking Play will [...]

After my ups and downs and then up again with getting Super Paper Mario as a birthday gift to myself, I should provide an update after playing it for a few days.
SPM is one of the funnest video games that I have ever played. Its 2-D / 3-D mechanism is a refreshing change of pace. [...]

Last Friday as I walked to my car after work, I noticed that the year sticker was missing from my license plate. It either fell off (unlikely) or it got stolen. I've heard of people stealing tags but geesh! I doubt that it occurred at work but I couldn't exactly remember the last time [...]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/child_porn_bust_040326-1.html
This child pornography crackdown caught lots of people who worked with children... even a pediatrician!
Since I studied the biological basis of behavior, I understand a lot about why people do the things they do, even wretched things like adultery or murder. But I cannot understand pedophilia. Or, maybe I just don't want [...]

My first exposure to web design using PHP was with my forums. The creation of my forums was easy because my web host has a function that automatically installed the forum for me. However, since then, I have wanted to customize the look and function of the forum, and the only way I was able [...]