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Facebook vanity URLs

Ah… so we didn’t see the failwhale equivalent on Facebook with a huge chunk of its users all logged in to the website when that time came to stake your claim on your name. I claimed my piece of the tubes with this as my Facebook URL. http://www.facebook.com/scott.kuo I wasn’t lucky enough to claim the [...]

3B all done!

I wrote my last final exam for ECON 405 on Friday (the very last day of exams) to finish off the 3B term. It wasn’t a terribly hard exam, although I must say that it was quite long. I’ve been lucky to have a lot of time to study for it over the past week [...]

An awesome tutorial to R

With the Quantitative Finance (ECON 405) class that I am taking right now, we are heavily relying on an open source software called “R”. Like many many many open source projects out there, the documentation are written by programmers and not professional documentation writers. But I stumbled upon this nice little R Tutorial today that [...]

A Christmas update from Vancouver

Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho! Any one going Boxing Day shopping this year? You’re probably reading this after a long day of Boxing Day shopping. As I am writing this post, I remembered that Amazon.ca’s Boxing Day deals went live (I promised myself to check it too… since my mom recently had broke my iPod)… [...]

Bruce Lee goes wireless

(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) I wonder if the action sequence in this video is real… if so… that’s friggin cool. This video advertisement is for the limited Bruce Lee edition Nokia N95 in China.

The New Indigo Chapters Kiosk

When I went to the Waterloo Chapters the other day (about a week and half ago… this post has been sitting in my drafts since forever ago), there was a shiny new information kiosk located in the store near the Starbucks (now guess if I was there for coffee or for books =9). It was [...]

8 years later

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Found in the MC stairwells. Posted by the UW Gamers Club

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A neat little short-film made by students (Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaM9mrnOMJo

Courselect sets its first milestone

It is with great excitement for me to report that Courselect reaches its first milestone within 5 days of its public debut. The website received over…