1min's Blog

Hello! If this is your first time to my blog, then you probably didn't notice, but the entire blog has been redesigned! I customized a lot of Blogger's built-in template to make it look more like my personal website. I never realized that you could add your own custom CSS to Blogger templates--which saves me a ton of work because I thought I might have to create my own blog-site from scratch. I also redid the label system as you can see in the sidebar to the right: 1min's life  - posts that relate to my personal life website changelog  - posts about changes to my website multimedia  - posts with videos / pictures thoughts  - posts where I am philosophical reviews / guides  - posts that I find helpful rants  - posts where I am venting random  - posts that don't fit in a category I think that this is a much cleaner way to keep track of the various posts in my blog. You'll notice that I combined my personal website changelog into my blog....

Twin Peaks, San Francisco Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Frankfurt, Germany Las Vegas, NV Beale St., Memphis, TN Dallas, TX Napa Valley, CA Yosemite National Park, CA Sequoia National Park, CA Berkeley, CA Seattle, WA Angel Island, San Francisco Alcatraz, San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, SF Stanford, CA Central Park, NYC On a side note, travelling is a lifelong disease--once you catch it you can never be cured from the powerful wanderlust. Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Just uploaded my multiplayer code for the multiplayer version of War of Shapes to Heroku. Please check it out here . I also changed several of the photos on the main page and created two versions of my resume--one for business and one for technical. On a side note, Node.JS is awesome!

Here's some background  information : I was a campus tour guide at Brown University, which means that for one hour every week, I had to give a tour to prospective students and parents who are interested in the university. There were quite a few of us and we are all assigned individual time slots. On my slot, (Monday, 3PM) there were three other tour guides for a total of four. Now here's the  scenario : there were three tour guides one day (one was sick) and about four prospective students. Clearly, only a single tour guide was necessary. But how do we choose which of us three has to give the tour in a fair and diplomatic way? Do we play rock-paper-scissors? But that could take ages. Here's the  method : each of the tour guides picks a number from one to ten (inclusive). Then a prospective student does the same. Whoever is closest to the student's number has to give the tour. The others picked three and five, while I picked four. The number was five. I did not have ...

Many pages are now gone and all condensed into the main landing page. The main page is now a lot longer and more dynamic. The Navigation Bar was completely reworked and integrated into the main page. The Pages and Games pages were combined into a single section. The Contact page was condensed to a footer. The Resume page was replaced with a web page version with a link to the PDF. Finally this News page was renamed to Blog. On a side note, please shoot me an email letting me know how your browsing experience was!

My website should now be browser resize-friendly! That means that if you make the browser window smaller or bigger, the content should dynamically change as you change the size. This should also mean that my website is now mobile-friendly as well! On a side note, if you notice any inconsistencies during your browsing experience, please shoot me an email!

Both my Guestbook and my Strawberry URL web applications are now fully functional and running. I recently purchased hosting with GoDaddy, allowing me to have my own MySQL database and a PHP back-end to run my code. Now I can finally work on keeping my new networking game up 100% of the time! On a side note, I am planning on yet another redesign of the landing page and the contact page.

Completely redesigned the landing page and swapped it with this renamed page. Now instead of automatically landing on this page with news and recent information, you will land on the new redesigned landing page. Not only that, but with new CSS transitions, I am no longer relying on jQuery for most of the animations on my website. So ignore the last post, the side-notes are no longer JavaScript. On a site node, what do you think about the new redesign?

ThinkVantage Button (X1 Carbon) If you own a Lenovo laptop, chances are that you have a " ThinkVantage " button on your keyboard. It's that thin rectangle button on the top left of your keyboard (actual size and location depends on your laptop model). You first have to do a registry edit to change the button from the default Lenovo software. Please refer to this link for instructions. You'd have to change the registry entry to point to the following BAT file I wrote. Here are two files that I wrote to turn that button into a custom script for running a Google voice search. The actual usability of the script depends on your laptop and how quickly you can open a browser. I purposely put a long sleep timer on the VBS script to account for slower startup times on your browser. If you find that you are opening a new browser and waiting too long before the voice search starts, then feel free to lower the 5000 to a smaller number. The script.bat file which ...

Wow it's been a while. Looking back, 2013 was a terrible year for my blog. I went from averaging 42 posts per year down to 2 for the entire last year. I am terribly sorry and I do apologize. I guess it was a combination of major life events (graduation, jobs, and relationships) and my own laziness that contributed to this great lack of content. Since it's a new year, I figure I can make a public new year's resolution to blog more often. You heard me, 2014 is going to be a great year--I just know it. I guess I can use this first post of 2014 to reflect back on 2013. Some key events include: Earning my Bachelor's Degree Being employed at Citrix Systems Moving to Florida for my new job Getting a stable relationship I could dedicate twenty posts to each of the above topics as there is simply so much to talk about. So I'll try my best to condense it all into a few paragraphs. My time at Brown was amazing. It had its share of ups and downs and I lea...