Kermit@CS

After a much needed break things are starting to wind back up…

Well I say “starting” since the Algorithms course page for this year isn’t up, although computer graphics seems to be in better shape - it still lacks a few images.

Also, has anyone else got this SMS from the Algorithms course?

ALGORITHMS
LECTURE(67504)
CHANGE TO
MONDAY AT 18:00
INSTEAD OF
SUNDAY IN
SEMESTER ALEF**
    (HUJI)

Anyone have any idea what they mean [I’m assuming they mean that the lecture on Sunday from 12:00-13:00 has moved to Monday 18:00-19:00]? and why its in all caps?

I’m off to try to knock as many things as I can off my todo list for the summer, see you all on Sunday…

In parting, some tidbits:

• Filesystem using TinyURL
• Why you should spend all that spare money on a DSLR

Well, another milestone has passed us - moadey aleph are finally out of the way (hopefully for the best)
and we’re now in full moed bet swing [which will hopefully end in time for an actual summer vacation…].

Seems there are still people with energy to do things other than study in Giv’at Ram and a neat example
is one physics student who wrote up a WikiBook guide for students in Giv’at Ram. It’s an entertaining
read and being part of a wiki, it’s a “living” document - meaning anyone can add or correct information.

It already contains lots of useful and entertaining info, and I hope more people will add their own content
to make it even better.

For some reason, I don’t think this is what the next Knuth book is going to look like:

Some worthwhile links:

• A very insightful writeup on software design - written on a PERL oriented website, but the advice is solid and most of it is very relevant to software development in general.
• Simply entertaining

Apparently, this Wednesday, theres gonna be an end of year bash on Campus (involving Jazz, and beer, or something to that effect)…

Major kudos to the new Student union for putting things together I’m glad that signs of them doing something have started to appear…

Well, guess we’ll just have to wait and hope that this all holds up…

In the meantime, some quickies:

• Just got a universal (25 in 1) memory card reader [where did all those formats come from??]. I’m really happy with it so far, and it’s much faster than copying files back and forth through the camera. Also, a steal for 60 Shequels including shipping(more basic models where going for over NIS 100 in local computer stores [bandits?] I checked out).
• Straight out of the Hitchiker’s Guide - Singing Dumpsters.
• Ajax on Rails - Extremely cool, especially the file upload indicator part…
• Lemmings in DHTML - wowzers!