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Today is 01-02-03.
I'm also back up in Gainesville ready to go for my 4th semester at college. I
had a lot of stuff that I didn't get around to doing during the break, so I came
back up extra early to have time to do it all without distractions, since NO ONE
is up here yet. Just me and my very cool RA. I think I've already listed what
I'm taking, but here's it again: Digital Design, Circuits 1, Intro to Computer
Organization, and finally Data Structures. 15 hours, including 2 labs.
Unfortunatly I've heard horror stories from two people about the insane amount
of time digital design labs take up, so it looks like I'll be even busier than
last semester. At least it's interesting material, as I get to make all kinds of
cool stuff. I love my major! (Note that that last statment is void the
night before I have any major projects due that refuse to work right)
Salon has an excellent article (as usual) about North Korea and foreign policy. Bush is so concerned about Iraq (and where
are all these terrible weapons that he was so sure about at anyways...) and yet
North Korea has a nice little nuclear arsenal ready to get up and running. I was
never for the war in Iraq, and while yeah Hussian is one messed up fellow, he's
really not worth starting a war over. Secondly, why is it ok for the US to do
everything (chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, biological weapons) and not for
any other country? I mean granted we're pretty sane and won't just let them
loose on a whim like some crazy dictator might, but can you really blame North
Korea for wanting a nuclear program? Can you really blame a country for feeling
resentful that the US essentially "owns" them by requiring these inspections? Do
you think American's would feel happy if China decided to require full access to
all of America's weapon stores? Anyways, good article.
And now a bunch of Google news courtesy of the Google Weblog:
First a good piece on the morals of
Google, which is summed up as "Don't be evil". Good idea.
Then two new types of Google searches, one for products so you can find where they
sell what you want to buy, a search with quotes that
shows you what other sites thought about the site you're looking at, and finally
Google slideshow to view
webpages like a powerpoint presentation.
And last but not least the Google Zeitgeist for 2002.
All the hot topics and trends of 2002, as determined by what people searched
for.
I have a slight cold today. It would be a good time to buy stock in Kleenex if
you're smart.
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