Are Indians Asian? It’s been common discussion between me and my friends lately about whether or not Indians are Asians. I think we’ve been split about 50/50. I have been saying that Indians are indeed Asian because India is in the continent of Asia. From Wikipedia: In the United States, Canada, and Australia, the term [...]
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Posted 09 December 2007
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Disqus (pronounced “discuss”) is a unified comment system for blogs (and my tumblelog). I’ve been playing with it on and off for a while now and I think I’ve finally made the decision to use Disqus as my main comment system. Downsides At first glance, it may seem like a no-brainer to go with Disqus, [...]
The single most popular post on this whole computer-centric blog has absolutely nothing to do with computers. By far achieving the highest hit count, Life of Pi Quotes enumerates my favorite quotes from the book Life of Pi. Readers have commented with quotes of their own but by example, I feel like some readers may [...]
I had an internship right out of high school and the team I was working on had five employees. I, a high schooler with no formal CS education, was replacing them. I was rewriting all of their legacy code and making huge improvements on it. Furthermore, the legacy program was written in ASP, a language [...]
Dr. Paul Farmer, a renowned American professor and physician, came to Miami University to speak about his opinions on social justice and global health equity. One of the biggest problems that Haiti, and many third world countries, are facing today is the AIDS epidemic. There has been a marked decrease in life expectancy in sub-Saharan [...]
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Posted 24 April 2007
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