In Hiding

You know your social life is in shambles when you are afraid even to check email.

Hessian Who?

Argh. Need to master nonlinear optimization by noon tomorrow. NP-hard.

Natsume Maya

Natsume Maya is sooooo coool!!!

Milestone in UPS Delivery

Today marks the milestone of the First Successfully Recieved UPS Delivery in the history of 1820 Euclid Ave Apt 1. As I'm typing this, I'm listening to my prize, the original CD soundtrack of the X TV Series (Clamp).

The deal is: my apartment is a nice chic place with an apartment buzzer. The only problem is: the buzzer doesn't work (for me at least) and we have proven through numerous experimentations that it is a NP-hard problem for the UPS delivery guy to let me know when he's here downstairs with the package while I'm one floor up in my room. As a result, all my UPS deliveries involve either my stalking UPS trucks around the neighbourhood during every free moment I have and/or driving more than half an hour each way in peak traffic to the Richmond UPS call center.

But today, after a series of skillful negotiations with the UPS call center staff and support staff (with over 10 personnel involved in the project), I have finally managed to track my package down to a 15 min ETA window, during which I waited sitting on my porch until the delivery guy came. So, this is how achieved the amazing feat of recieving my "2nd day" package 10 days later. (An impressive tracking history depicting the events during the 10 days when the package went "missing" is available here.) The success of this operation would not have been possible with help from UPS from all over the United States, India and Africa, as well as the fact that my classes have ended and I can wait all day at home for UPS packages.

However, it is a milestone nevertheless and may mark the start of many more happy Amazon.com purchases, or my complete rejection of internet shopping anything (unlikely) and/or legal music.

Testing Mail-to-Blog

One of the perks of blogger.com =)

argh. okay. all my email-to-blog posts are gonna have my email signature. Darness.

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cogito ergo doleo

Blog Migration Plan

As you can see, I'm attempting a Xanga->Blogger migration. Yes, I'm one of the billions of people in this world contributing to Google's plan to take over the world. No, I am not ashamed.. 'cos there are worse world dominators out there. Hopefully it works. Ah.. multiple domain names, cool stuff.