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sábado, agosto 06, 2005

Pacific Beach rocks!

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Here is one way San Diego has a leg up on Fresno: Pacific Beach! For those who have never had the pleasure to experience this wonderful part of San Diego, it is San Diego's mini-Santa-Cruz. It is near the beach, has surf shops, a lot of cute little restaurants, and a wonderful view of the surf. It is, more to the point, where the entire population of beautiful girls in California congregate on Friday and Saturday night.

So, me and my buddy Victor are hanging out on Thursday. "Hey, you want to go to Pacific Beach?"

"It's Thursday night..."

"There should still be some beautiful girls, though"

So we went up to Pacific Beach. Now, with it being Thursday night and all, there was the occassional girl who attracted our attention and made us sing "Miya-hee Miya-hoo Miya-ho Miya-haha" in the car.

Unfortunatly, the number of really hot girls was pretty low on Thursday night. It it on Friday and Saturday night when Pacific Beach really becomes happening. In fact, my buddy Tommy doesn't like driving in Pacific Beach--he likes riding his bike so he can get a better view.

And, in fact, I went to Pacific Beach by myself on Friday night. Unfortunatly, I was a bit dehydrated from working out earlier in the day, so had too much of a headache to really enjoy the view. However, when I was down there I got invited to a party which I will go to tonight.

Whoohoo! I love life down here in San Diego!

- Sam

P.S. Yes, girls, we did keep the windows closed when admiring the girls so the girls in question would not feel hit on. I like sexy girls, yes, but I also am a gentleman.

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jueves, agosto 04, 2005

What is a good job

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What is a good job?

I have been thinking about this, since I have just graduated.  Here is my definition: A good job is a job that will allow me to pay the mortgage on a house in a reasonable neighborhood within one hour of where I am working.  Ideally, one that is not a trailer.

So, before I job search, I need to find out what houses cost, and how much I need to pull in before the bank will allow me to pay for this house.  Then I need to see if a job will pay me that much.

Once I do this research for the San Francisco, Fresno, San Diego, and Washington (I've worked for Microsoft before) areas, I will post a blog about how much I would need to earn.

- Sam

P.S.  OK, here are some links.

House prices by zip code:

https://www.melissadata.com/ssl/HomeSales.asp

A link that converts a house price in to a monthly mortgage:

http://homestore.com/homefinance/

A link that will give me zip codes given a city name:

http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm

And, of course, a map so I can figure out distances:

http://www.mapquest.com/

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miércoles, agosto 03, 2005

Excitement in San Diego

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Unexpected excitement awaits me at every corner.

I was driving with my buddy Victor in his car on the freeway. We were having a fun little conversation.

"So, what do you think of the Ninja?" I asked Victor

"The Ninja is a good street motorcycle. However, I would rather have a GSXR 1100, which is a real racing bike."

"Would you rather have a GSXR 1100 or your choice of a Harley motorcycle?"

"Any Harley motorcycle?" asked Victor.

"Yeah. Any." I answered.

"I'd rather have a Harley V-Rod" said Victor.

"Any other cool motorcycles?"

"Yeah the Ducati is a cool bike."

"So, which bike is the best bike to have a girl [1] on the back of?" I asked

"The GSXR 1100. That bike goes really fast so the girl has to hold on tight when you're going on tight mountain turns."

"How about a girl on the back of a Ninja?" The GSXR is a little beyond Victor's budget. Actually, the Ninja is also beyond Victor's budget, but that didn't stop us from talking about what it would be like for him to own one.

"Well, you have to make sure it's this year's model with the tailpipe underneath the seat. Older models with the tailpipe on the side will burn her foot when she puts it on the tailpipe--Oh shit! The heat is pegged!" exclaimed Victor. I looked at the dashboard, which was telling us the engine was about to melt.

As quickly as possible Victor drove to the right side of the freeway. Both of us had to get out the passanger door because there was too much traffic to go out the driver's side. We lifted the hood and looked at the engine.

"The coolant's out" Said Victor.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"Because this car has a coolant leak. I might have some more in the back." He explained.

There wasn't any coolant in the trunk.

"So now what?" I asked Victor.

"We wait for the engine to cool. Maybe a Caltrans tow truck will pass us and give us free coolant."

We sat by the side of the freeway waiting for the engine to cool down. Victor had a cigarette. Actually he had a couple of cigarettes. As we were waiting, I thought about riding on a GSXR or even a Ninja with a beautiful girl's arms wrapped around me. More relaxing than being stuck on the side of the freeway.

Finally Victor decides the engine is cool enough to drive again.

"Where are we going to drive to?" I asked him.

"The nearest gas station to get coolant." he replied.

We got the car started. The heat meter on the dashboard was still pegged at the top. Traffic was so heavy that we had to wait for this light to turn green three times before we could finally go through it to the gas station. To minimize the engine heat, we turned off the car every time the light was red.

The gas station had coolant. Once the car had cooling fluid again, the tempature was normal and we were able to drive home.

For going places later on in the night, we decided it was better to go in my car.

- Sam

[1] Actually, I confess that I didn't actually say "girl." I said "chick." Jami, my female friend from Montana, hates it when I refer to the female half of the human race as "chicks". That's because, in Montana, "chick" is a word you only use for a girl you don't like.

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lunes, agosto 01, 2005

I'm moving out of Fresno!

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I'm moving out of Fresno! I finished up my coursework a little over a week ago and now just need to deal with a little more bureaucracy to graduate (see yesterday's blog entry). I have pretty much cleaned my room this weekend, and will finish that up this morning. Then I'll load up the car and be going, going, gone from Fresno! I don't think I will live here again, but you never know. Anything is possible. For example, if the girl of my dreams told me she wanted me to move back here, I would.

Anyway, it was good living here, and I have made a lot of friends while I was here, but it's time to move on. I'm going to San Diego today. My buddy friend from down there already called me up Sunday and we've already made plans to have a lot of fun together!

I won't miss the heat, that's for sure. For all of you people still in Fresno enjoying the heat, all I will say is Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

- Sam

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domingo, julio 31, 2005

Arrrgh! Graduation paperwork!

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Graduating from CSU Fresno is like pulling a leech off. OK, here's the story. This spring, having finally done all of the coursework to graduate, I applied for graduation. Well, naturally they came up with a bunch of little reasons why I couldn't graduate. Some of which made sense; the results of the Upper-Division-Writing-Exam test hadn't come in (I'm very proud to say that I passed the test the first time I took it); the "Incomplete" I got hadn't been processed (even though I did all the coursework); etc. More to the point, two of the GE classes I took did not count towards graduation since the fine print on page 93 of the 2004-2005 CSU Fresno catalog explains that you're not allowed to take GE classes from the same department that is your major.

So, annoyingly enough, I took summer school and got those classes behind me, turning in a second application to graduate.

Well, I get a letter from evaluations telling me I still can not graduate. For reasons which I thought I have cleared with them:

They still haven't figured out that I took CSCI 60 (heck, I even got an A in that class). Is it asking too much to have them look at my transcript before thinking I haven't taken a given class, especially after I already told them I took this class.

They still haven't figured out that the department for my major has given me an exemption from taking LING 144, since the class was not available. They have even sent a letter to evaluations explaining all this. I guess evaluations doesn't read their mail either.

So now I have to go by the evaluations office and explain to them what's up. After going to the office for my major and telling them they'll have to resend a letter they already sent (yes, the department of Linguistics at Fresno is on the ball, unlike the evaluations office).

Arrrrrgggghhh!!!!

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sábado, julio 30, 2005

CSS tutorial part three

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In the first part and second part of my CSS tutorial, I explained how to use CSS to change the background color of a myspace page. In this tutorial, I will explain how to change the background image of a myspace profile.

In order to set the background image for a profile, it is important to have a page somewhere on the internet with the desired image. Now, a bit of ettiquette here: It is very bad manners to link to an image on someone's web page without their permission. When linking to an image to make your background image, make sure the image is on a web page you own, or you have the webmaster's permission to link to the image in question. Also make sure the image is not one that is in an email, since those links won't work for anyone who isn't signed in to your webmail account or will cease to work after a very brief period of time. The web site Photobucket.com is popular for uploading images; I personally link to an image on my own web site.

Another bit of etiquette is that the image should not be too large; a large number of web users are still on dialup or in foreign countries which access the internet at slow speeds. These people will not wait too long to see the images in your profile. A background image should be no longer than 20,000 bytes (20k) in size. This puts some limitations on what image can be used for a background image, but creative artists know how to work around these kinds of limitations.

That said, the CSS for a background image looks like this:

<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: black;
background-image: url(http://domain.of.image/path/to/image.jpg);
}
</style>

Where http://domain.of.image/path/to/image.jpg is the URL for the image in question. For example:

<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: black;
background-image: url(http://x.myspace.com/images/blog/blogLogo.gif);
}
</style>

A URL is simply where a given image is on the internet. This information can be determined by right-clicking on an image and selecting "view image", and seeing what URL (the thing which starts with 'http://') appears on top of your browser window.

It is important, in addition to having a background image, to have a background color which is roughly the same color as your background image. This way, your profile will still be readable, even if the image does not load--something which can happen quite frequently, especially for dialup users.

Also, many images are not tileable. A tileable image is one such that, if there are two or more copies of the same image next to each other or above and below each other, the image will still be attractive. With some images, it may even be difficult to tell when the image ends and the copy of the image begins, such as with my bakground image.

If an image is not tileable, it is best to center the image and not have the image repeat. We do this by adding some more CSS:

<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: black;
background-image: url(http://x.myspace.com/images/blog/blogLogo.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
}
</style>

Three keywords here: "background-repeat: no-repeat" tells the web browser not to have multiple copies of the image on the web page; "background-attachment: fixed" tells the web browser to not move the image if the users scrolls the page, and "background-position: center" tells the web browser to place the image in the middle of the web page. These keywords are only needed for non-tileable images; there are tools, such as the Gimp, which will make non-tileable images tileable.

Now, like the background color in my previous CSS tutorials, these changes will only be visible on the very sides of one's profile. How to make these changes more visible in one's profile will be my discussion for the next CSS tutorial.

As always, I will finish off with a link to the CSS specificiation, which is the best reference out there for CSS design.

- Sam

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viernes, julio 29, 2005

Some quotes

Since I'm here with my dad and madrastra, who have a second-to-none collection of books, I have been reading a little.  A couple of quotes form these books that come to mind:

"Rejection, it seemed, was a great whetter of appetite" -- Nancy Kress, from the short story And Wild for to Hold  (Yes, the name of the story is ungrammatical in modern English)

" 'You keep using that word!' the Spaniard snapped.  'I don't think it means what you think it does.' " -- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (The original book, when they are climbing the rope; the Spaniard is the guy with the long black hair in the movie)

* * *

Anyway, I haven't heard from Google yet.  My hopes are still up.  I had another phone screen with another potential job yesterday afternoon which didn't pan out; they were looking for something very particular and I didn't fill the bill.

If Google doesn't work out, I'll probably return to México to visit my friends down there for a while before actively looking for work in the tech industry up here.  Or maybe I'll go to graduate school.  Who knows...my life is in God's hands, as always.

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jueves, julio 28, 2005

Whew! What an interview!

My interview with Google was one of the longest interviews I have ever had.   Actually, let me take that back: The interview was the longest job interview I have ever had.  Basically, I was there for about six hours interviewing non-stop.  And, the way they structure interviews is such that it is basically impossible to tell if I did badly or not during the interview.

I personally thought I didn't do that great, but, then again, I thought I flunked the first phone screen.  However, I ended up passing that screening and getting a second screen and on-site interview.

Fortunatly they are really on the ball and I'll find out either tomorrow or Tuesday how I did.  Wish me luck everyone!

- Sam

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martes, julio 26, 2005

Interview with Google Wednesday

Because I have my rÃ©sumÃ© on my web page, I occassionally get contacted by companies and headhunters (recruiters). One of the companies that contacted me was Google; they felt, based on my rÃ©sumÃ©, that I would make a good software reliability engineer. There is a reason you don't get the nonsense on Google like "Sorry! An unexpected error occured!" and what not the way you do here--they have a very good software reliability engineering team. I would be very honored to join that team.

Well, getting in to Google is not easy. I had one basic technical phone screen with a Google internal headhunter (yes, Google has those). Then I had a coupld of really hardcore difficult technical phone screens. I thought I funked the first one, but I passed and got a second phone screen, which lead to them paying for milage (they would have paid for a plane ticket but the Bay Area is close enough that it makes more sense to just drive) and a hotel room for the night so I can interview for them Wednesday.

It'll be an all-day interview starting at 11am. I am really looking forward to it; in particular, during the second phone screening I got the sense that Google has some real top-dog CS guys who can teach me a lot of programming voodoo that I do not yet know. I'm also a little nervous, but I know that God is taking care of me and that, if I don't get this job, God has another plan for me--such as going to Mï¿½xico and spending time with my friends there.

- Sam

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lunes, julio 25, 2005

About Cryptography

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Since a buddy of mine asked about cryptography yesterday, I will discuss cryptography basics.

Cryptography starts off with the art of making secret codes. In other words, scrambling a message so no one except the intended recipient can decode the message. Another problem that cryptography solves is the problem of authentication; making sure a given message came from nobody except the person who has a given secret key. A third problem that cryptography solves is making secure random numbers: Computer generated numbers where one can not figure out the next random number that will be generated (my open-source application uses cryptography for generating secure random numbers).

These may seem like three unrelated problems, but the underlying mathematics in modern cryptography solves all three problems. For example, if one can create secure random numbers, these random numbers can be used to scramble a data stream.

There are two general types of cryptography: Symmetric key cryptography and public key cryptography (PK was first called "non-secret encryption" when discovered secretly by military cryptographers; and renamed "public key" when independently re-discovered a few years later by researchers in the public sector).

Symmetric key cryptography solves some problems:

Encrypting data so that no one except the intended recipient can decrypt it

Creating secure random numbers

Creating what is known as a "message digest" or a "cryptographic hash", which is used in authentication.

It can be used in certain kinds of authenticaion.

Public key cryptography solves two problems:

Encrypting data on an insecure channel where an adversary can monitor all communications. (It can also be used for secure random numbers and making hashes, but no one uses PK for this)

Authenticating a message so we know it only came from the owner of a given secret key.

There are a number of different encryption algorithms for solving both of the above problems. While some encryption algorithms are patented; a number of excellent encryption algorithms are freely usable. Namely:

For symmetric key encrytion, the most commonly used one is the Advanced Encryption Standard (also called Rijndael)

For public key encryption, the most commonly used one is RSA

Both of these algorithms can be freely re-used without paying any licensing fees, and in free software projects. RSA used to be patented (in what was an invalid patent since Clifford Cocks independently discovered RSA four years before Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman re-discovered it; alas Cocks' work was classified), but that patent ended in 2000. AES (the Advanced Encryption Standard) was never patented.

Anyway, here are some more links describing cryptography, and the hands-down best book for describing cryptography to a computer programmer who hasn't done crypto before:

The Wikipedia article on cryptography

John Savard's articles on cryptography

Gnu PG documentation

And, if you have the money, check out the book at the end of this blog.

- Sam

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