DISQUS

I own UT2k4 (as well as 2k3). No one really plays anything other than CTF or Onslaught. The game has tons of maps, but only a handful are ever played by 95% of the servers. That said there are some great mods for the game. However, they are vastly unpopulated.

Would I recommend it? Nah, with the same content being repeated 1000x over, it gets old fast. Mind you, for $14... getting old fast isn't such a big deal.

I must say I was dissapointed by the winners this year. I really did not believe that they truly represented the best, but rather the most popular cashcow among the moms and pop moviegoer.

Oh wait... same deal last year... and the year before.

This is why I don't watch the Oscars no more.

Yea... the designers of Splinter Cell did :p

The receiver is no issue. I already can hook up my PDA via Wifi to my home webserver, which hosts up my webcam feeds. The issue here is the transmitter: wifi-embedded devices ain't cheap. Its cheaper to buy a webcam + used computer + wifi adapter than it is to buy an independant wifi camera (Dlink make those).

So yes it exists. Just not cheaply. That said, monochromatic analog cameras transmitting over non-wifi radio bands can be cheap, but lacking wifi they defeat the purpose.

Hope I didn't chew you up too bad :p

Well this is my opinion, and only my own. So feel free to ignore it as I oft do others :p

- I would get rid of the objective thing. Use a proper cover letter instead: it does the same thing, doesn't waste precious space on your resume, and leaves you more room to suck up.

- Listing the main courses that you've taken in uni is unecessary. Their implication in your curriculum is already evidenced by the very fact that you're a "Computer Science" student. And to be honest, mentioning that you've taken an "Intro to [insert language/infrastructure here]" won't really impress anyone. I'd leave out that section entirely. I don't know how your GPA system works at Cornell, but here a 3.4 is not so good. Might want to leave that out too.

- Projects. There you get to list all the cool stuff you've done. But I've got a feeling that whoever would read your accomplishments would say "yea... woopteedoo... so what?" Stuff like "CS textbook work with Faculty" is too vague to catch interest. If I were you, I'd cut half of those listed out, and then focus on the remaining few. Indicate its value to someone who is interested in hiring you. Innovative? Useful? You say things like "100% effective anti-spam solution for WordPress blogging software". That's true, but it won't catch the employer's eye. Instead say something like "Developped Anti-Spam solution for a leading Internet Logging software".
More catchy, yet still true.

- Experience is always the most important bit. In this respect I find that the resume is well done.

- I'd leave out the "Interests & Activities" bit entirely. I can't think of a single instance when that's ever helped anyone, except aid a teenager fill a page when applying for his/her first job. The employer won't read it, and won't care what you on your off time.

- Overall look: 2 pages is always bad, but that can be easily edited. If you plan on permeating this about, I would recommend putting it in PDF format (I can manage that for you... send me an email anytime). The reason I recommend doing so is that it makes all those ugly tables and grey areas and ugly red lines dissapear. Plus it has the "ooooo... PDF" factor to it. I would consider completely reworking the header. Having your address hidden on the absolute right like that doesn't blend in that well with the document's karma. Yes I said karma :p I would also consider making a more distinc seperation between your name & address and the rest of the CV.

My 2 cents. Reading other people's resumes always helps.

Those men died because those responsible acted on instinct rather than procedure. They saw fire on the ground, they thought they were being shot at when instead the men on the ground were soldiers on a training exercise. They did not report the incident back to HQ. They disregarded procedure. People died.

When people die because you did not follow your duties, you should be held accountable.

Yes, true. But usually in order to get them they would have to contact server operators, and those operators would have to divulge the private information. Even if it was one crooked server operator that wanted my info for god knows what, he/she still wouldn't be able to link that IP to anything else without first getting some other logs with which to correlate it.

None of my "persona's" can hide from the proper authorities with the correct credentials, but it will keep the freaks from finding out my personal info.

And I thought I was the only one with such a mum :p

To balance privacy, I hold different "personas", each for a different layer of trust I maintain for the destinary. I have my personal information and email to whom I only pass to trusted sources (close friends, university, paypal, etc.).

Then there's another persona with its own email account that I pass on to all questionable sources. Anything where I register, I give an alternate email address, whose intent is to get spammed like heck. I only check it for those "click me to complete registration" mails. If you search every aspect of this persona, be it the email address or the linked information, it will never be traced back to me.

In my eyes, eXeem is nothing more than an ed2k wannabe, only with spyware. It is not a program centralized around bittorrent, but rather a "similar" protocol, with functionality much ressembling that of ed2k. Furthermore, it isn't decentralized.

So really, its yet another P2P App out there. The spyware just takes away any will to even try it (despite the fact that a crapware free "eXeem lite" has just been released).

Useful advice. Coincidentally I'm actually doing multiple excel graphs as I write this, which is the reason I'm here... sheer boredom. Seriously though, nice advice.

Based on the quote (still loading up the rest of the discussion), its a rather scary premise. Deal with a problem by simply pushing it away. Ya. That'll work.

[Not to mention the huge damages caused by the wind picking up the irradiated material from the fallout, killing thousands and thousands of people living outside of Iraq. That will reeeally get the world to love the US.]

I don't believe this is done on purpose. Adsense is the key. It crawls, finds the words "blog" (which regardless of where you are on the web is a pretty key word to indicate the topic at hand), and that's all it needs. I do not believe its because of ill-doing on Google's part but rather simple coincidence... after all, they are only one of the select few blog entities out there that make enough dough to cover the cost of advertising.

The thing you are using to display weather... is it Samurize? If so, with which weather script? I really like the pictures for the clouds, and the font :)