At the risk of turning my site into a complete nerdfest, this entry is going to be totally devoted to my next programming project. When I took CSE 373, our final project involved a graph search algorithm. This project wasn't very hard at all, considering the fact that we were given the algorithm in English / pseudo code an...

I finished my personal statement (and therefore my application) for Computer Science. Here it is...      Computer systems have interested me since I was eight years old, when I discovered my parent's Kaypro IV personal computer. This machine revealed to me the world of O-BASIC, rich with games to p...

O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you-O Absalom, my son, my son!...

Here is the full paper on SPAM that my group turned in: 82 KB Microsoft Word Doc | HTML Other news, I've installed mt-bayesian . mt-bayesian is a MovableType plugin that uses a Bayesian algorithm to fight spam comments. After installing, one must train with every comment posted to one's site; based on the statistical infor...

Sometimes I wonder how all of this will end. We're so caught up in a moment--even when we're thinking about the future, about what we want to do with life. It's pathetic, but I see it happening in myself and all around me. And are you just like me? Dead eyes, dead eyes, are you just like me? Her eyes, her eyes were as vaca...

I'm installing SOAP::Lite on my Laptop as I write this out. It's pretty incredible how annoying CPAN is to configure on a Windows machine. I had to download a whole bunch of *NIX applications that were ported to Windows... *sigh* Other news, I got a 4.0 on my Comparative Literature paper (written about Great Expectations )...

Since the DOCTYPE I have been using on this site is labeled " XHTML 1.0 Transitional," I thought it would be appropriate to actually make the transition. The site is now XHTML 1.1 compliant (with the exception of the pop-up comment posts that are built in to Movable Type --I'll edit those someday). I've been working back t...