Something’s terribly wrong with me today! I’ve been debugging the simplest mere extension circuit for hours now and I still can’t get it to work! All bloody analog…nothing fancy. Now I have a blown up op-amp & 2 burnt finger tips, and after looking around for God knows how long I just realized that I have a reversed zener-d and for some reason I just couldn’t see it. Golly…I’m quite sure there are a few more of “that” type of problems laying around staring at me right now. I should probably leave it for now….at least for a few hours.
As for World Cup frenzy….well I’m still pretty ticked off over Iran’s pathetic [for one kind word] performance in the game vs. Mexico. I’ve received all sorts of lectures on why things happened the way they happened and why this was to be expected….not like they make me feel any better. England’s team however has so far done well….& my fave match so far was the Ghana vs. Italy game. One hell of a game that one.
And as for my Greek language studies….it’s going fine, thanks for asking! 🙂 I mean it’s going as fine as it can possibly go given the conditions! It’s funny how everything tends to sound 180˚ different than what I would expect according to the alphabet basics. My search for “living resources” is still “on going”…… On the plus side, teaching Persian to my German friend is going pretty smooth.
Now only if I could figure how this thing is supposed to sound like……:P

I just watched Nickelback’s latest video for “Savin’ Me” and I enjoyed it immensely. An interesting idea indeed.

Savin’ Me – Nickelback

Prison gates won’t open up for me
On these hands and knees I’m crawlin’
Oh, I reach for you
Well I’m terrified of these four walls
These iron bars can’t hold my soul in
All I need is you
Come please I’m callin’
And oh I scream for you
Hurry I’m fallin’, I’m fallin’

Show me what it’s like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I’ll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I’ll leave this life behind me
Say it if it’s worth saving me

Heaven’s gates won’t open up for me
With these broken wings I’m fallin’
And all I see is you
These city walls ain’t got no love for me
I’m on the ledge of the eighteenth storey
And oh I scream for you
Come please I’m callin’
And all I need from you
Hurry I’m fallin’, I’m fallin’

Show me what it’s like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I’ll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I’ll leave this life behind me
Say it if it’s worth saving me
Hurry I’m fallin’

And all I need is you
Come please I’m callin’
And oh I scream for you
Hurry I’m fallin’, I’m fallin’

Show me what it’s like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I’ll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I’ll leave this life behind me
Say it if it’s worth saving me
Hurry I’m fallin’

Say it for me
Say it to me
And I’ll leave this life behind me
Say it if it’s worth saving me

My “car excited” friend René just found this article on digg.com and sent it to me. I’m not as car happy as he is but I still find this kool. So check it out!
“Ever wondered HOW MUCH faster an F1 car (when driven by Schumacher) is in comparison to a production Ferrari or a compact car? Check out this on-track fun road test!”
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سال نو مبارک, عید نوروز مبارک
Tomorrow exactly at 1:27PM Toronto time, the solar year 1385 starts.
So, HAPPY PERSIAN NEW YEAR, HAPPY NOROOZ! 🙂

Seriously! I think I’m totally in luv with this pretty little piece of technology. What am I talking about? Well I’m talking about what u see here in this picture. SONY’s FJ series notebook, and specifically the one in sky blue [what a surprise eh? :P]. It’s actually very cute, and very light. I’ve been using this baby for a while now and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy with any of my systems before….believe me when I say the interior is even more impressive than the exterior. To name a few of the features that I’m really happy with: the motion eye camera with built in microphone, the comfy keyboard, the double layer DVD+R, the 1.86GHz processor, the 100GB hard drive, the XBRITE LCD and so many more. U can have a look @ the complete specifications here.
To anyone who might be planning on buying a notebook: make sure to have a careful look at this one, u won’t regret it!

Nice. I’ve been waiting for this almost forever. Hopefully this will solve a whole bunch of JavaScript + FireFox problems.
“JavaScript 2.0, aka ECMAScript 4 will be coming in a future version of Firefox, and with it will come Python-like generators and iterators, among other things. The good news is that Adobe and Microsoft are on the spec alongside Brendan from Mozilla, so there is hope for the language to improve in all browsers in a standard way.”
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A couple of days ago a friend of mine told me something about Google banning the BMW website. Then I read the same thing in an email, and then I saw an article on digg.com about it. It seems that the public opinion on the matter is quite diverse. Some are enjoying this and some…well….not so much! But me, well I’m a bit confused. I mean I don’t quite get the argument that’s going around! First of all, not BMW, but BMW.de has been banned. Well they tried to use doorway pages and they got caught, isn’t that so simple? I mean I don’t understand why some people are getting ticked off with Google for stopping cheaters!! If u owned Google and someone tired to take advantage of it in some unethical manner, wouldn’t u try to stop them?? And hey, what’s this got to do with being big and powerful? Some people seem to think that Google is trying to show off it’s power by banning BMW.de, and that Google is starting to show the “MS symptoms”; well this is like saying that spammers should be allowed to take over the web and anyone who tires to stop them is trying to show off their power! Come on, does that make sense to u?
I honestly don’t know where Google is going with the current speed, but I know one thing for sure, stopping doorway users is in no way a sign of becoming the new big bad.

The IEEE website has a new design. I don’t know how long it’s been there, less than a week probably, but I noticed it last night. The significance of this? Well….just that I really “disliked” the old one. It was quite disorganized, the design of each part of the website sang a different song and certain parts of it were quite ugly! Altogether I thought that for an organization of such size they could probably do better, and since this thought kept coming to my mind every time I visited that site, it was nice to see they actually did something about it. The new design is nice and well organized, so….good job to whoever took care of it!
Now was that “significance” enough? Or is it that there’s about 15 minutes left to my next class and I’m just incredibly bored?? And yes, I’m posting this from ENG406, on the 4th floor of Ryerson Engineering Building. 😛

OH….MY…GOODNESS….Just have a look @ this! The cutest little Robot ever! Pretty natural moves too. Very impressive indeed!
“We’ve all been waiting to finally own a True Walking Humanoid Robot, Kyosho of Japan will release MANOI, the “Ready-Made” Robot (that’s right; no assembly required) for about $1600. Wait til you see him Stand on One Leg and Do the “Wing Wave”…..you’ll want one too!!”
And yeah, I DO want one too! 😛
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Look what I just found on digg [again!] If u’re an engineer, studying engineering [like me! :S], are interested in engineering, don’t like engineering and don’t want to have anything to do with engineers, read this….it’s pretty kool!
“The Engineer of 2020 Project byt the National Academy of Engineering centers on an effort to envision the future and to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in the future. Very interesting read.”
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