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Archive for March, 2009

the cycle of life

Monday, March 9th, 2009

This morning I bicycled to school. It was a bit cold. It will be my new mode of transportation since nobody else has 10th hour. Well not nobody. But you get the idea. All I have is one more quarter: 50 days + finals. Silly rabbit! Finals aren’t for graduating seniors! The distance I travel [...]

Education in a Time of Cholera

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Over the weekend TNT showed all three Lord of the Rings movies and at the end of the last aptly named movie everybody is cheering the Return of the King. Really? After thousands of years of civilization they still have kings? That brings up an important point about governments because there have been good dictators [...]

Ressessionauts

Friday, March 6th, 2009

We are in a recession. Why? Common opinion goes like this: the government subsidized housing because everybody should own a home banks give out loans they should not (and that people should not have taken) meta-banks sell credit default swaps (CDS, insurance for the bad loans) credit rating agencies give these CDSs abnormally high ratings [...]

Judy is a Punk

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I had bluehost, my hosting company, reset my website. I had been hacked and turned into a zombie that was just spamming people. So they had to shut me down. The vulnerability came from the awesome script I was running on my main page that allowed the multitude of boxes to be moved around like [...]