Funny Google Ads.
Watched movie District 9. For review, see bottom: Avatar and District 9 Movie Review.
PC Vendors Market Share (report)
Bertrand Russell, my favorite top 3 author, i've read a lot, but never seen a video of him. Here it is:
“RetroBites: Bertrand Russell (1959)”. Interview with Bertrand Russell on CBC
See also: Why I'm not a Christian, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?, What Desires Are Politically Important?.
Starting Xah's Arts Blog.
Rabbits, Hare, Meat. (random notes)
starting a piano blog: Xah's Piano Blog.
Author of My Billion Year Contract reflects on life in elite Scientology group. Source
see also: Scientology and Falun Gong.
XahLee.org Web Traffic Report 2010-01
Starting a Xah's Webmaster Blog.
I'm quite happy with my branching off of this blog into 7 or so subject oriented ones this year. I find that i write much faster, easier, write much more materials. Many of these free-flow snippet of writings usually became quality tutorials or essays later on.
Starting a Xah's Math Blog. All math related stuff will go there.
Discovered: Jan Hendrik Schoen, “biggest fraud in physics in the last 50 years”.
I discovered this from this blog Three myths about scientific peer review (2009-01-08) by Michael Nielsen Source. Michael Nielsen turns out to be a known writer who was a academic in physics.
Some of the more interesting articles i found in his blog are: Quantum computing for everyone Source, Why the world needs quantum mechanics Source
See also Wikipedia Quantum computer etc.
interesting vids of ancient chinese weapon kung fu fighting, added to the page: Kung Fu and Martial Arts Video Game.
Went to see Avatar today. See my Avatar (film) Review.
Starting Xah's Blender Blog.
Lyrics appreciation! Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This). (lyrics and music vid)
Starting another blog, Xah's Sex Blog. All human sexuality, porn, or anything sex related subjects will be blogged there. In the early 2000s, blogs are just personal ramblings without much subject focus. In the late 2000s, blogs as a info distribution method tend to be subject oriented, because people are likely to subscribe a blog if it has a focused subject of their interest. I'm starting my sex blog and Xah's Emacs Blog, Xah's Second Life Blog this year. That way, it's more focused for readers, but it is also easier to manage and sort what i've written, and i actually tend to write more spontaneous random notes within a subject area, with less worry of providing the context and background of what i'm writing.
I might want to also start a English Writing or Literature blog, and or a Visual Arts blog, and maybe a math blog and a programing & programing culture blog, since i have written a lot of these subjects in the past 5 years. But we'll see.
PS am also starting: Xah's Programing Blog.
A few fantastic movies.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) trailer 2. For larger sizes (and much better color quality), see http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/aliceinwonderland/.
See also: Wonderland Alice Art Gallery.
Clash of the Titans (2010 film) trailer. Larger sizes: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/clashofthetitans/
See also: A Love of Mythology of the Greeks
Created a blog for emacs: Xah's Emacs Blog (computing). If you are a emacs user, then subscribe to that blog, because i probably will not repeat blog entries here.
Windows has a disk defrag tool build in. Just click on the disk and get properties, then under Tools tab. I am a efficiency nerd, but don't really trust defrag tools as it can corrupt your files. (sure i have backup, but to invoke it is a pain) Since Microsoft bundles it with Windows and this is 2009 not 1990s, i suppose it is safe, but still. Also, i always do partition my drives, but on this machine it's just one volumn of 685 GB. Usually partitioning is best done when you just bought the machine. But with PC today, it doesn't comes with a Windows installation disk anymore, so it's more difficult and i haven't partitioned my drives. Anyhow, on the Mac, the system does not bundle a defrag tool, and i always wondered why not.
Wikipedia Defrag has some thing to say about this:
HFS Plus (Mac OS X) In 1998 it introduced a number of optimizations to the allocation algorithms in an attempt to defragment files while they are being accessed without a separate defragmenter. If the filesystem does become fragmented, the only way to defragment it is to purchase a utility such as Coriolis System's iDefrag; or to wipe the hard drive completely and install the system from scratch.
umm... a optimized algorithm. One wonders, if Apple can solve the frag problem, then Microsoft probably would have done so too. I'm a bit skeptical that Apple's file system actually do any significantly better than Windows about the frag problem. The disk frag problem isn't really something that can be solved by “optimized allocation algorithm”.
Starting a Xah's Second Life Blog. All Second Life related stuff will be there. I'll probably not repeat blog entries here.
Trackball Mouse Reviews (computing)
Discovered a movie: Religulous. A documentary sort of film on religion, featuring interviews lead by Bill Maher. Ah, i've noticed Bill before, in his interview of Camille Paglia. See: Modern Goddess Camille Paglia.
Someone wrote to tell me the artist of a Nazi Leda and the Swan painting. See: Leda and the Swan (page 3).
A look at mouse technology today: Gaming Mouses.
Major update on the page: How to Define Keyboard Shortcuts in Emacs, and major rewrite on the page: How To Override Keybindings In Emacs. (emacs; computing)
If you are curious why my name is “Xah”, see: The name XAH. A old writing from email around 1999. (computing)
See also: Math Jargons Explained.
Microsoft Windows Keyboard Shortcuts (computing)
Created a emacs mode for editing BBCode. Emacs Xbbcode-Mode For Editing BBCode.
Learned of the guy John Naisbitt, most famous for his book Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1982) amazon. Recently he has written China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society (2010). amazon
See also: Li Ao on Tibet and Dalai Lama, China history etc..
Major update on Microsoft IntelliType Hacks (computing; keyboard macros)