If you are wondering why the posting recently has been sparse. Wonder no more. Spring semester winds up May 2. My teaching assistantship is more demanding work during the last month of the semester as the project is assigned and then graded in multiple steps. We usually break up the project into multiple steps so… Continue reading Miscellaneous
Year: 2003
A Small Accident
I had a somewhat weird accident in my car a couple of days ago. A pedestrian hit my car. My losses: the driver’s side mirror. His losses: none. I was turning left on an intersection with a traffic signal at night. When I had almost completed my turn, something crashed into the front pillar of… Continue reading A Small Accident
Endorsement
Andrew Northrup for President in 2004.
Haloscan and Donations
Haloscan is down again: I’m working on the server scripts so for around 1 hour comments will be unavailable. That was definitely more than an hour ago. I don’t understand why they go down for maintainence so often. I’ll probably regret this later, but because of these frequent outages of the comments, I was thinking… Continue reading Haloscan and Donations
SARS
The major signal processing annual conference has been cancelled due to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) scheduled for 6-10 April in Hong Kong has been cancelled due to the recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The annual conference is sponsored by… Continue reading SARS
Savannah
A friend and I visited Savannah, GA on saturday. It is an interesting town with a lot more history than Atlanta. We wandered around in the historic district and the riverfront. We visited Savannah history museum which was kind of small. It had some good information about the history of the city. It seemed to… Continue reading Savannah
Light Blogging
I haven’t been blogging much recently. Real life has interfered. I am working on my research, preparing a presentation and will be doing some grading this week as well. I’ll try to post as often as my schedule allows. I still have to finish the marriage series (starts here) with the last post on arranged… Continue reading Light Blogging
Political Quiz
Where do you fall on the liberal – conservative political spectrum? (United States) brought to you by Quizilla (Via CalPundit)
World Tour
This blog has received visits from 44 countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan, South Africa, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Singapore, Mexico, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Thailand, Portugal, Taiwan, Pakistan, Finland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Latvia, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, Romania, Turkey, Philippines, Poland,… Continue reading World Tour
Shariah in NWFP
The religious parties government in the province of NWFP in Pakistan has introduced legislation to enforce shariah in the province. The NWFP government has decided to enforce Islamic Shariat in the province by introducing Enforcement of Shariat Act and Provincial Accountability Act in the provincial assembly. Speaking at a news conference here on Friday, the… Continue reading Shariah in NWFP