The Poo / Poop Emoticon for GChat / GTalk is finally here! I’m so excited! :)
What you type in: ~@~
What you get:
Google Chat Poop
Name has been edited out in my cheesy animation for privacy. =)
New! Robot head: [:|] – shows up in different styles too! (depending on if you do round, square, etc.)
My complete list (so far):
:(:)
;-)
;^)
:-/
=/
+/'\
\m/
:(
:)
:(|)
[:|]
B-)
}:-)
:)
=)
:-)
:P
:p
:-P
:-p
=P
=p
:(
=(
:-(
:'(
>.<
V.v.V
:-|
~@~
<3
:{
}:-)
:-x
:*
It’s almost graduation time. Good bye Harvard! (soon)
Today:
I know this blog post lacks any depth whatsoever, but yay!
Just got my Kindle 2 from Amazon.com today: my first, after not having been at all curious about the first Kindle.
To summarize some of the points of this Kindle:
Altogether, the Kindle is nice for reading, but it’s not one of the multifunction devices that we’ve gotten accustomed to. Get it if you normally carry your paperback novels but want an eletronic alternative that can download books anytime, (just about) anywhere. (People in the Midwest don’t fare so well with coverage – See Coverage Map).
The Kindle 2 is not “cool” and “hip” technology. It draws curiosity, but usually because people are thinking, “what the heck is that giant white thing?” I can upload my class readings onto it, but I’ll more likely return it or gift it.
XKCD:Kindle
Ever see this annoying button before?
I believe that a good website should not be run on Flash. Sure, it can have trivial flash components, but not Flash for the menu, navigation, and content!
Nonetheless, Flash allows designers to make very visually appealing websites with effects that are not possible with simple HTML/CSS and either cumbersome or unfeasible with Javascript. Furthermore, there’s no need to tinker with stylesheets or test browser compatibility for hours on end.
So against my principles, I am experimenting with a Flash version of my website. It’s started off simple and redundant, but I will develop it more in my free time. The hardest part is of course the graphics. You can see my project at: http://darrenhe.com/flash.
I’m getting bored of these posts, since they seem to be every few days now. Wordpress-based site: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrec/.
I finally am making some changes to my own website!
Logo has been changed and I have added a right side picture for people with big enough monitors to see it. Kat’s doing some graphics for me – I’m excited!
Also made some graphics for Services and Portfolio, and I’m thinking of replacing that rainbow thing on my home page to a flash animation. I only put it there to take up space anyways.
Just a day after finishing the HCCG website, I started and finished the website for the Harvard College Global Heatlh and AIDS Coalition (http://hcs.harvard.edu/hac/).
For this website, the users wanted to be able to 1) easily edit the static pages and 2) have a blog. My solution was to use Wordpress to maintain the entire website. Thus instead of integrating Wordpress into a website like I’ve done for my own website and for katherinejhan.com, I’ve done the reverse.
Used the pixeled theme from Wordpress, modified of course to make it suitable for a static content view. Best part is that non-code content changes are easy (and mostly done already!)
Just finished the website for Harvard College Consulting Group (http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hccg/).
Pretty straightforward website, simple CSS-based div design, with PHP calling the header, top menu, left menu, and footer. Google analytics integrated in the footer, and both the CSS and XHTML validated with W3C the first try!
Most importantly, it should be amazingly easy to edit for future classes of Harvard consultants! Just have to modify the page in question, and there’s a clearly visible div called “content.” Everything ugly is hidden in the PHP headers and footer. Yay for bloat-free, non-CMS websites!
I haven’t touched a game in a month and I really have no urge to pick it back up. No shooters, strategy games, or even flash games. For people who say gaming is an addiction, (just like smoking, drinking, TV-ing, and drama-ing are addictions), I’ve gone cold turkey. Vegetarian even.
I have spent more time on my website(s). But oddly, my most-viewed creation is from a game – a video capture of Desktop Tower Defense 1.5, a popular tower defense flash game (think tens of millions of times played). It is a strategy to beat the Fun Mode’s 100 Levels without losing any lives. It’s on YouTube.
Ah, my former glory days.
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The Singer Solution to World Poverty (circa 1999)
“A” pointed me out to this article by Peter Singer. I’d link “A” here, but she doesnt have a blog, website, etc. The article describes some moral ponderings, not at all unlike the standard examples from Professor Sandel’s Justice class here at Harvard. Does Bob divert a train to save a child at the expense of a new Bugatti he saved up years for?
The difference is the extension to charity? Do you skip an expensive dinner ($200) so that you can help one malnourished child become healthy? When do you stop? At $1000? At one-fifth of your income? Or do you wait until you’re a billionaire and then make headlines by donating all of your money?
I agree with many of Singer’s points, but I think it takes a rather one-sided view of the entire situation. Won’t Bob’s incentive to work extra or harder be diminished if he knows all the money is going to charity? Does throwing money at charities really solve the original problem? What do you think?