On Windows Vista, Firefox 3 is incredibly unstable. Like, 15 crashes a day unstable. Luckily, the hardworking people behind it have swiftly taken decisive action regarding the problem!
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So I think that my hosting company needs to advertise it’s 80% uptime as a feature. For example:
Tired of your customers’ constant bantering? Now your small business can finally have the iron-clad excuse it needs to get out of providing goods or services in a timely fashion. Just think–sleeping in every day could be an “our website went down” away!
On that note, I think I’ll be switching away from Frozen Midnight. I have to wonder though…am I their only customer? I feel like the whole thing is just run by some kid in his basement.
Today I finished my third year of college! During the year, I came up with various ideas for decorating my dorm’s floor that were never completed for a variety of reasons, such as this one, which came very close to fruition. (It turns out that Adobe Reader lacks the ability to span a single large document across multiple pages, thus rendering printing a large sign somewhat difficult.)
Anyway, in the game Portal, the player must navigate a series of progressively more difficult “test chambers,” each of which prominently feature a sign corresponding to that chamber. The sign includes the test chamber’s number, illustrations of what the test might entail, and the like.
After playing the game, I decided to make a similar sign corresponding to my building (West 13), with modified versions of the Portal illustrations showing some of the strange things my floormates had a tendency to do, such as trying to wash ice cream cones down the drain, slamming the door loudly, and jumping down the stairs!
So without further adieu, I present you with Testchamber 13 West, the unprintably large sign!
I apologize for the lack of a post and…existence for the last day or two, but it seems my wonderful hosting company has taken a likeing to randomly dropping off the face of the Earth.
Anyone know of a better one?
In computer science, the efficiency of algorithms is generally written in the form of a function indicating the maximum amount of operations that must be performed for a given input size. For example, in the case of a linear search through a list of n items, the computational complexity would be written as O(n), meaning that for every additional item, one more operation must be performed.
However, many algorithms cannot run in O(n) time, or even close to it. For example, take, once again, the traveling salesman problem, in which the algorithm must find the optimal route between several cities without ever visiting one more than once. The simplest solution runs in O(n) time, while even a better solution using dynamic programming still only runs in O(n22n). Because, as far as anyone can find, this algorithm cannot be reduced to run in polynomial time (that is, O(nsomething)), the problem is considered to be NP-complete.
Unlike the aforementioned problem, many problems have solutions that do indeed run in polynomial time, which are known as P. However, while no one has found polynomial-time solutions to NP-complete problems, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t exist. In fact, no one has yet provided a proof that, indeed, such problems cannot have polynomial-time solutions; there’s even a $1,000,000 prize out there for the first person to provide a correct proof! As such, I have created the following infallible proof:
P = NP
P/P = NP/P
1 = N
Therefore,
P = (1)P
P = P
By the Reflexive Property of Equality, this is always true.
QED
It is with great pomposity that I would like to announce the immediate release of 1:40am, a custom stylesheet for the K2 Wordpress theme, and the one used at this site!
The theme features a fluid-width layout, a dark color scheme, and looks vastly different than any other K2 stylesheet out there! The name of the theme comes from the header image, which I took around 1:40am somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Download the “1:40am” K2 style. (tested with K2 RC6, but should work with older versions as well)
To install the theme, install K2 if you don’t have it already, then unzip the file to the folder [your wordpress installation folder]/wp-content/themes/k2/styles/, and select the theme from the drop down menu on your K2 options page. Be certain to disable the “ option, as K2’s dynamic column resizing interferes with 1:40am’s fluid width main column.
I’ve already mentioned Sonny, the best Flash game ever. Now allow me to introduce another Flash game which not only features a deep and engaging storyline, but also a catchy theme song: Burn the Rope!
Well, what are you waiting for this time? It’s time to rise to the challenge, and be a hero!
So as you probably didn’t notice, I upgraded this site to the lastest version of everyone’s favorite content management system! Not only did the upgrade go seamlessly, but it was done almost completely automatically, thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Update plugin!
Wordpress 2.5 has so far proved itself a worthwhile upgrade–it features a greatly improved user interface, automatic plugin updating, and writing posts without Windows Live Writer is now bearable!
I have also now enabled page caching, so hopefully pages will load a bit faster now.