As a college student who eats out frequently (my cooking skills aren't good enough for crunch time eating) and who is always up late, I'm always wondering what restaurants are still open in the area. In order to reduce crime, the City of Berkeley decided to make business close for …continue
Recently I've been working for a website that has a lot of scanned PDFs. They need to make sure that they don't have the same problem as the redacted PDFs of the FBI/CIA. You know, where you could copy-paste the words out from behind black boxes?
Yeah, we had …continue
As a student at UC Berkeley who's active with web development and campus groups, I need to be able to connect to computers that only allow Berkeley IP addresses. This means I have to connect to the Berkeley VPN service if I wish to work from off-campus. Therefore, with the …continue
Several times I've looked for the lyrics to this song and been disappointed. Below I've combined the sources online with my (limited) knowledge of Arabic. I'll try to get my Somali friend to translate the Somali Chorus. UPDATE: I got Moha Egal to translate the Somali verse for me!
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There have been some questions regarding Google Talk and its Invisible status. XMPP/Jabber didn't support Invisible when Google Talk, which is based on XMPP/Jabber, added support for it. This was likely to create a uniform interface to the user who now had the ability to go invisible on …continue
Since you all know what happened, what I say would likely be a repeat, so I won't say anything. I'll simply link to a music video, its lyrics, and a sample that can be used as a ringtone.
Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds.
Looks like something the world should listen to. Well, at least the most polluting country in the world (the USA). If anyone knows the candidate of hope's number, please let him know about wind energy's superiority over everything he's proposing …continue
Today I was looking in the New World Encyclopedia and I noticed a small reference to the United Nations with a broken link. I decided to investigate and I found the 2002 Arab Human Development Report (alternative PDF, should be same content, but haven't checked). At first this seems quite …continue
"It is the offender that forgets easily, the offended seek justice."
Seeing the current "tensions on campus" and the rhetoric from all sides, this quote can show you who did the offending and who was offended. This quote is derived from someone else's saying, but sadly I don't know the …continue
I was thinking about prayer times (Muslims pray 5 times a day, within certain time intervals), and then about how Ramadan is slowly moving into the summer time.
Note: The prayers are in reverse order of their appearance on the graph.
This shows the times for prayer throughout the year …continue