Raja's Palace

Your Home Away From Home

At the start of every new college semester, I inevitably find myself listening to dozens of whiney Freshmen complain about how it costs (their parents) $800 for new textbooks. As I enter my final semester, I feel I should pass my secrets down to the coming generations. See, I haven't spent that much on textbooks over the course of my entire college career. And today I share my secrets with all of you. Why? Simply for the joy of seeing you smile (because now you can afford those dental bills).

The Greatest Romance Stories of All Time

I couldn't seem to find any decent tabs for the songs Jiro plays in Android Kikaider: The Animation (an anime that used to play on Adult Swim a few years ago), so I made up my own.
Disclaimer: The following is my own interpretation, not to be sold, don't sue me etc.

In Systems Security class, the professor presented us with an interesting homework problem involving random numbers which I thought some of you might enjoy.

According to this page (near the bottom), when Java 1.3 switched from using a native BigInteger implementation to a purely-Java implementation, it gained an increase in speed of "as much as 5x or more." This has led many people to believe that Java's BigInteger class is comparable in speed to the popular Bignum and GMP C-libraries.

While waiting for the completion of the Sunday Polka Worship Service (...) at my cousin's baptism, I observed a number of people making burgers for what appeared to be the upcoming outdoor beer-and-polka festival. The large number of blatant health-code violations aside (including one woman who repeatedly picked things off the bottom of her shoes using her gloves), the one thing that stood out most was how incredibly inefficient they all were. To make a burger, each individual worker (of four) would do the following:

I wanted to see how easy setting up a WordPress blog was compared to Drupal. This Drupal blog took about 16 hours over the course of about five days to set up. WordPress took about 20 minutes, and only because I was really lazy.
I'm going to use the new blog not to replace this one, but to coincide with it - I need someplace to record my more rampant thoughts, the ones that don't quite fit here.
If you're the one person who actually reads this blog, check it out. It can be found here.

Sorry, no post for this week - been too busy with work and posting elsewhere.
I know, I know - you feel like I've been cheating on you. Don't worry though - next week, I'll come home with a nice bottle of champagne, give you a long back-massage, and we can forget this whole thing ever happened.

Until then.