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... but I find interesting. I've been watching the AGU-CF-TRA love triangle and things are starting to heat up.

AGU, which is trying to take over CF, seems to be gaining success with their bid, with 62% of shares voting for the takeover. Meanwhile, yesterday, CF got three of its nominees to the TRA board (ousting the chairman) - a pretty good indication of what TRA shareholders want.

So TRA shareholders want to be bought out by CF (while the TRA board of directors does not), while CF shareholders want to be bought out by AGU (while the CF board of directors does not).

Interesting.

Cheryl_Ann

To-Do:

Intro to Asian American Studies Midterm Paper

Email AsAm Discussion Questions

International Sociology Summary Paper

WATCH NEW MOON

The papers were absolutely KILLER. At the last minute, I realized I read a book I didn't have to read. Yeah. I spent 3+ hours skimming a 300-page book for quotes to use in my AsAm Studies midterm paper. I wanted to cryyy after I realized that.

Whatever. I finished eeeeverything and then Alex came down to Irvine and we went to see New Moon. OH. MYY.

It.was.so.good.

But now, it's 4:16 AM, my head aches, I NEED sleep, and I have to wake up in about 5 hours to get ready to go to class.

I cannot wait to catch up on sleep this weekend.

Here's some coverage on MindTouch Cloud:

• MindTouch Joins Google, Zoho in Collaboration Cloud
• MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alternative to Sharepoint and Salesforce.com?
• Sharepoint Watch Out - Mindtouch Goes SaaS 
• MindTouch launches its open source cloud

Good stuff. I can't believe it's Thanksgiving next weekend! Time flies...

MindTouch Cloud finally launched. It's the project that's responsible for my first all-nighter in eons. It's also why I worked off-site for close to a week. It's launched, but unfortunately that's only the beginning.

I can tell that I'm not as green anymore: the joy of launching this site lasted about 10 seconds before I started compiling the work items for the next version. This project is continuous. It's tough to think that all the work I put into this site will mostly be thrown away over the coming few weeks, but I'm used to it now. Evolve, baby, evolve! I've gotten the ball rolling, now let's hand it off to people so they can make it more excellent!

I was going to write a bit more, but now I'm tired. So this will have to be a placeholder entry.

aphrodisiac

 a lot of things happened to me when you left. it's been so long since we saw each other, i still think about you every now and then, thinking of the what ifs and why it didn't happened. i still cry right now until i fall asleep, this night is no different. it was so dumb of me to ever thought that it would lead to something beautiful, i still remember the things you said to me when we were still together. like what people used to say to us, that we look so good together, and me, making assumptions that there will be a possible next time for both of us. that you will be willing to take those chances and get to know me better and chances to show me who you are. i never realize how hurt i was until this moment, this night,  i still think about you and us back then. that i am still longing for the hugs you gave me especially when we're lying next to each other and you wrapped your arms around me while me, snuggling and feeling that i am safe and nothing bad is ever going to happen. i still remember the time, you were singing the song to me, the beatles song,  even if it's out of tune and you were so nervous singing it made me feel so good. i didn't know what you were thinking now or from the last letters you sent to me, do you really mean it? or is it just a consolation for me or maybe just a line you said because you feel bad? i wish you never done those things you did, because it just made me miss you more. i wish you just said it before we separate that this is the end so that i won't hope for anything like i did when you left. i still can't get over you. i want to get over you. i don't want anymore tears. i am hurt, so bad. i thought since i had a lot heartaches and heartbreaks before, it will be easy for me to let it go. but everyday, i feel a truck has run over my heart. everyday my heart is beaten by someone. i guess i love you. maybe that's why. but if i love you why is it i'm hurt every time.

Cheryl_Ann

It's 5:20 AM.

I'm gonna go get some sleep before my 10:30 AM class.

-_-

If you're like me, you're getting tired of hearing about the run-up in gold prices (and the dollar taking a beating as well). Take comfort in the stability (and never-changing-ness) this graph (courtesy of pk):

The Price of Gold (denominated in gold):

NeoPages.net, one of my old projects, was a community/free hosting site (I was one of the earliest sites to promote the "participate in the forums to get free hosting" concept). I created it back during the Geocities/Xoom days before (a) private hosting was pricey and (b) the free hosting sites SUCKED. I was fortunate enough to be able to pay for hosting, but I knew others (who were just as talented as I was) couldn't afford it (or they were overseas and couldn't use a CC to buy hosting).

Anyways, I love personal home pages that take me back to those days - you don't see too many of them lately (they're all WordPress/Drupal sites).

I still host one of these sites, Skytopia.com, on the same server as Tabulas. A recent article posted on that site recently got picked up by Digg and Slashdot: Mandelbulb, the 3-D Mandelbrot. The math and details are a little over my head, but the thing has some pretty awesome 3-D models. Check it out.

So how does this relate back to me? This is your server's bandwidth usage when the site gets passed to Digg/Slashdot/etc:

I'm surprised my server survived the Slashdotting - I had to boost some Apache config values (Helloooo MaxClients), but it (mostly) stayed up without problems (it was a bit sluggish for a while, though).

I remember when I used to think I was hot shit cause my server would transfer more than 500GB a month. Now I'm at risk of breaking the 2 terabyte limit.

I wonder when I'll think 2TB is nothing.