Thu Tu Koelling's Blog » Kudos http://takethu.com/blog Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:45:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Child Safety Seat at Packard Children’s Hospital http://takethu.com/blog/2012/04/20/child-safety-seat-at-packard-childrens-hospital/ http://takethu.com/blog/2012/04/20/child-safety-seat-at-packard-childrens-hospital/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:45:13 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=681 This week, my husband and I went to a car seat inspection at Packard Children’s Hospital. If you live near Stanford University and use a child car seat, it’s definitely worth making an appointment. At first I thought that it would be a quick appointment where they would show us how to install the car seat [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2012/04/20/child-safety-seat-at-packard-childrens-hospital/feed/ 0 XM Service Issues 5/21/2007 http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/22/xm-service-issues-5-21-2007/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/22/xm-service-issues-5-21-2007/#comments Tue, 22 May 2007 15:09:35 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=287 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 [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/22/xm-service-issues-5-21-2007/feed/ 0 Gapminder Is Pretty Friggin Cool http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/11/gapminder/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/11/gapminder/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 04:28:38 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=276 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 [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/05/11/gapminder/feed/ 0 Super Paper Mario is Fun and Funny http://takethu.com/blog/2007/04/16/super-paper-mario-is-fun-and-funny/ http://takethu.com/blog/2007/04/16/super-paper-mario-is-fun-and-funny/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:03:51 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=261 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 [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2007/04/16/super-paper-mario-is-fun-and-funny/feed/ 0 Kudos to CA DMV http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/30/kudos-to-ca-dmv/ http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/30/kudos-to-ca-dmv/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:40:25 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=150 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 I [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2006/06/30/kudos-to-ca-dmv/feed/ 2 Child Porn Bust http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/29/child-porn-bust/ http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/29/child-porn-bust/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:42:46 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=43 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 [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/29/child-porn-bust/feed/ 1 PHP is Phat! http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/16/php-is-phat/ http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/16/php-is-phat/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:37:11 +0000 Thu Tu Koelling http://takethu.com/blog/?p=29 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 [...]]]> http://takethu.com/blog/2004/03/16/php-is-phat/feed/ 2