I miss the Category feature in my previous blog software. Since I am new to Blogger, can someone tell how I can associate each blog entry with a category? Instead of reading the material for a class tomorrow, I started hacking with cybersam.org to correct the problem that I had the night before. I am just too compulsive to let the problem rest. On the bright side, I added new code to associate icons with categories. Nonetheless, I still question the wisdom of this decision since I will probably wind up using blogger anyway.

On the bright side, I went out for some beer with Chris, Dave, Matt, and Spiros after "Product Development" class. As usual, drinking helped to induce creativity, we came out with a few ideas that we may actually use as individual product design proposal for this class. Time for shut-eyes. I am getting tired.

2/1/2005 10:44:43 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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So they decided to publish my tsunami experience at MIT after only being there for a month. Check this out News @ MIT Sloan The printed copy will be available to all students next week. In reality, it is really not that dramatic as it sounds, but it always does after applying a set of "adjectives" to the story. I have to give credits to the writer who did a splendid job in conveying my thoughts into words. This is best line from the passage, which I reflect how I feel from the tragedy and I quote:

Although he describes himself as "agnostic," Chow says the experience has left him feeling more spiritual. "I should cherish my life, and cherish life around me. It brings a different perspective to life, and that perspective actually brings a different set of values to me."

With this, I am going to bring closure to this tsunami thing. It would be great if you can contribute something to help the less fortunate, domestic or international, tsunami or non-tsunami related, big or small. More importantly whatever you do, cherish your life and the life around you. Tsunami aside, I really had a great time traveling to Thailand with Camille and Brian. And thanks again to those who inquired about my well-being when the disaster struck.

2/1/2005 10:23:01 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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I have not blogged for a while on my personal website www.cybersam.org since its blogging software (BlogX) isn't adequate for editing and publishing. I got tired of it after a while. But so much have happened since I last blogged in April 2004 and I really want to do start doing a "Dear diary" moment again (Yikes). I got my act together today and tried installing/configuring the new version of the blogging software that I use, which by the way has been renamed to dasBlog. But I gave up after 5 fruitless hours of fiddling around with .NET and IIS (Inherent Insecurity Server). Now that I am back in graduate school full time and still working part time, I can't afford to waste time mucking around with senseless software issues. So I signed up with blogger just to get me started with blogging again. We'll see what happens.

1/31/2005 1:56:02 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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