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It's been a hectic week for me since I am a computer administrator at my local community college. Rather than say a lot of interesting things in many different threads, I thought it might be interesting to put many interesting things in a single thread and see what happens from there. Interesting thing number one: I teach a math class this semester. There's a better way to subtract that many people have never encountered. Instead of crossing out the number to the left when you borrow, put a 1 under the number you would have crossed out, down on the subtraction line. Just read the link... look for the section on subtraction, second image. Interesting thing number two: If you take digital photos, there is a free tool available from imagenomic that will reduce noise in your digital images. Here is a direct link to the Noiseware Community Edition v 2.0.3 for Windows XP. I have taken many many images with my digital camera and sometimes I need to use a high ISO setting to avoid a blurry image. This thing works magic Interesting thing number three: Three will have to wait - I have to do some other stuff now. I'll add a post to this thread when I get a minute to myself

The black spot sneaker is an interesting "anti-brand". This is designed to be a shoe that stands for everything Nike doesn't but should. From the company web site: Worth at least a quick read.

I was reading a discussion on how Google can afford to offer 1GB of email per user, and it ends up making sense - for email. One of the essential things that makes it work is how each user's disk space a) is pretty much only accessed by that one person is filled up slowly or not at all Both of these conditions fail when you try to apply them to web hosting. Caveman - lol... I've thought the same thing. Good thing google's corporate policy is to not be evil! (item 6) Glad I trust them! Is that a mistake? Maybe...

...not talking about Style XP, the XP theme installer.... talking about using styles in Word XP, as in the document editor. Oh well.

My new year's resolution is 1280x1024.You knew someone would say it.Really though, I want to get back in shape, get a car and a house, and meet someone new.

This is such a hard choice... I don't think either choice is optimal. I went to a wireless-enabled college, and I found this solution optimal: get a desktop and a laptop! Just get an old or used laptop that you can work on but not play on... since you have wireless access, your laptop can always "call home" to the desktop, letting you use the desktop as the real workhorse. Gaming on desktops is always better than on laptops anyway. The laptop won't wear out as fast cause you'll only use it when you're "out". For the cost of a good PDA you can get a laptop that's a few years old... maybe as fast as 1 Gigahertz, with a basic graphics card and wireless access. Use the laptop as a portable connection to your desktop, and you're all set!

I got COALS. Just kidding. My family exchanges gifts on January 6, Three Kings Day. So I don't know what I'm getting yet. But I will be getting myself a car. Yay!

I use MS Word XP all the time. I use the Styles feature in most of my documents along with semantic markup so that I have a consistent look across the whole document that I can change easily. If you don't know what I'm talking about, nevermind. But if you do.... I like to have my paragraphs separated by some vertical whitespace, so I edit the Normal paragraph style (space after: 0.75 line). The topmost part of the styles pane shows the "Formatting of selected text". When I apply the Normal style to something, instead of simply saying "Normal" in that field, it says "Normal + After: 0.75 line". However, the 0.75 line shouldn't be an extra thing on just this text, it's part of the Normal style, since I edited the style to add the spacing. Has anyone else seen this behavior before? Does anyone else even use styles?

Also check out http://www.deviantart.com/ - lots of art in different categories, and it just keeps growing. If you're an artist, you should consider joining! They have everything available for download of course, but they also sell prints of your work if you want. A very active community. Check it out!

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas HofstadterGodel is a mathematician who proved that any useful consistent symbolic system is incomplete.Escher is an artist whose drawings contain self-referential themes, tesselations, and paradoxes.Bach is a master musician whose music contains mathematical elements for the keen observer to notice.This is a FABULOUS book.

Where do you see yourself in the near future? Working at my community college as a computer administrator. Where would you be? Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Earth, Solar System, Universe. What would you do? Fix stuff, help noobs, program stuff, go to meetings. Are you married? Not yet. Any kids? See above... WHAT????????? SPILL!!! Hey! I was drinking that!

It's out!!!!! Will be released for PC on February 5 2005. YEAH!The first game was amazing. This looks even better :DWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!Ok, seriously. SWKOTOR was game of the year in 2003 - it's a roleplaying turn-based combat game. You aren't limited by the turn-based combat, though. I know some folks who play entirely in realtime. You control the main character and whichever party members you choose to bring with you. You can pause combat and queue up actions for each party member. Your choices have a ginormous impact on your surroundings. This has to be one of my favorite games of 2003. I have nothing but high hopes for the sequel.

Yes smeghead ... the link mentions that the actor for Kryton was the main source of information Besides, there can only be one Red Dwarf.

So lower dp (dot pitch) means less distance between the pixels, and therefore more detail. This is really important for LCD monitors because unlike CRTs, the pixels are fixed in place. Lower DP = more detailed image

Wow... a movie... that would be smeggin' awesome! The plot sounds reminiscent of Star Trek's borg but with Red Dawrf I'm sure it will be original and hilarious. Red Dwarf is such a classic series that they should have no trouble promoting the movie.