My First UHR Meeting

October 12, 2005

So political, but there's something alluring about the rigid structure with which these meetings are held. Kudos to Saira for handling all those rules: "will so-and-so yield to the speaker", "we are discussing passing the amendment to the bill not passing the bill itself", "please keep questions to the matter at hand". Tamsburg gave her a run for her money, though. I think he was having more fun than he was supposed to. When a club member presented a bill to fund a trip to a CS programming competition, Tamsburg presented the pertinent question "what languages do you code in?" I wouldn't want to fund a bill for people coding in BASIC, that's for sure!

Facebook hack of the day: view the full photos of people who aren't your friends. Simply copy the URL of the person's thumbnail photo and change the "t" at the start of the jpg filename to "n" (n for "normal" instead of t for "thumb") and you can see the person's full-size photo.

Life update!

Current personal projects: Stikkies (DHTML and AJAX-based sticky notes); the new Hydrous Scheduler (pending help from the registrar and SGA, which has recently become more likely); a Sudoku solver; learning more about the Windows video architecture (GraphEdit and DirectShow filters)
Current work projects: learning Flash to create audio-narrated PowerPoint slideshows.
Future projects: converting the structure of the photoblog to CSS instead of tables; adding search abilities to the photoblog; creating a simple file transfer program that works in Windows and MacOSX, at least.

Anyone know how GUI-based programs are typically written for the Mac?

Comments

jennifer
October 12, 2005
2:49 pm

dude, that comma-outside-the-quotation-mark thing is totally throwing me off.

ben
October 12, 2005
3:01 pm

when i look at that picture, i see the guy in the stripey shirt leaning over towards the girl, like its the moment right before he yawns and throws his arm over her

Ethan
October 12, 2005
3:04 pm

Ben - that's true. I think he was glancing at the agenda in front of Saira.

Jen - I found a non-authoritative article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark">Wikipedia</a>, but I agree with it concerning the punctuation. See "Typographical considerations".

Ariel
October 12, 2005
7:02 pm

mwahaha, the facebook stalking functionality increases! =p

Matt
October 12, 2005
11:19 pm

I definitely agree with Jenn about the quotations. If they're specific spoken phrases, then you must adhere to the standard rules.

Ethan
October 13, 2005
8:16 am

The rules are different in different places, and they're changing in the US anyway. Read the wiki article.

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