I started my Masters in August of 2003 after taking a year off from school. During that year I looked for a job and traveled around Europe. While I had fun traveling, I did not have fun looking for a job and did not have much luck either. So, when I got the call [...]

I have been looking for a good free or cheap Windows application to make nice photo slideshows like iPhoto does for a friend in Japan. I happen to find Microsoft Photo Story 3, which is a free product from Microsoft that accomplishes this. It is not as nice as what can be done with iPhoto, [...]

Sometimes after starting something new we long for what is old. The old might not have been better and could even been a little worse, but we still seem to have some desire to return to some part of it. I think this is probably, because new things cause discomfort and the old seem like [...]

Since I have only moved into my mac-kingdom recently, I did not know about a great site called MacHeist. I have already gotten a good number of free apps from them from doing some of their missions. Now, as we speak, they are revealing their next bundle of great shareware that they will sell for [...]

A new version of OAR is ready. This version has a number of updates including a revamped web aspect that includes classes for searching Google and Yahoo web and image search. This version will break much code previously based on OAR. This means that you should skim the code and see if the updates are [...]

I thought I tried this before and it failed, but with the latest version of Mono “shift_jis” is a valid encoding.

Conference Date: June 12th -13th, 2008
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Site: http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nlpcs/nlpcs2008-cfp.html
Important Dates
Deadline: March 3rd, 2008
Decision: April 4th, 2008
Camera Ready: April 14th, 2008

Every year my lab in Japan would have a gyouza party and probably because of that I came to like gyouza very much. While shopping at the local Asian grocery me and my wife found some gyouza skins and decided to try to make our own. To my amazement, they turned out pretty good.