BoingBoing posts about Northeastern University
After Xeni Jardin faked alumnus status at Stanford to get access to The Facebook, she explored and came up with commentary on the site. Asking to be added as her friend, I did so as a faithful BoingBoing reader should do. I have a feeling she did look at my profile, as well, since her article in the LA Times about the Facebook mentions the Oregon Trail interest group I belong to on my Facebook account (that exists only at the NEU Facebook). In any case, Northeastern’s documentary video on the Facebook also made a special mention. Check it out.
Spotted this in the parking lot at work yesterday.
A co-worker guessed that they must work for Constant Contact, an email marketing company down the hall from us.
I have approximately 2 days left to finish my job here at Pyxis Mobile. I have worked full time here for almost 9 months now, 6 of those months counting towards co-op, the other 3 my last summer break of college. Over that time I have worked for the Professional Services, the Development, and finally the Quality Assurance teams. When I say worked full time, I was probably in the office for 10 hours a day on average, but I often played a bit of foosball or did personal things on the internet in that extra hour or more that I stayed in the office. I’ve taken only one week off in this entire stretch, heading down to Myrtle Beach with my girlfriend to catch some rays.
I was washing my hands in the bathroom today, and I looked at my reflection in the mirror, and experienced a disconnection from my physical self that I have only felt once before, also while looking in the mirror. I was shocked. Who is that in the mirror? Is that me? For a few moments, my ego didn’t recognize the physical form in which it resides. That’s my face? Shortly after returning to the office, I was talking to one of my coworkers about something. In the back of my mind, all of a sudden, I began to wonder, “Whose voice is that coming out of your face?” I was discomforted by the thought and hurriedly told myself that I am me.
So what the hell just happened? My best guess is that I’m starting to lose my “individual ego”, or my “sense of who me is” as a result of the drastic reduction in personal time I have alone with my thoughts. My life’s been flying by and haven’t had a chance notice that I’m changing too.
I was speaking with one of the senior developers here about moving some of the various projects that exist in the server solution into one project, such that there would only be one assembly .DLL file that needed to be distributed with each component, ie “Library.dll”, or even just a packed single executable file that included the libraries.
Apparently you can do this and still keep your projects separate in your solution.
ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name.
Looks neat.
The recent terrorist attack committed by a Jewish Israeli military deserter, who went and gunned down four Arabs on a bus, was called ‘a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist’ by Sharon himself.
I was shocked to hear this news. As far as I have come to understand about the conflict in Israeli with the Palestinians, all the past terrorist attacks by Palestians were the initiator of retalation strikes by the Israeli military. Perhaps, as a result of the uncountable terrorist attacks on [Jewish] Israelis, I have become numb to news stories about bus bombings. But this was different. This time, an Israeli did it first. Sharon’s choice of words undercuts how shameful this act of violence was.
I brought up the incident with one of my co-workers who is Palestian. He had a salient insight that really hit home with me. Abdallah told me something along the lines of, “Look, now Israelis are upset, having their own land taken from [the government], they too are comitting senseless acts of terrorism upon civilians whom they feel is causing their loss of the land.”
In other words, the Israelis that are being forced to move out of Gaza are now experiencing the same thing Palestians have been experiencing for decades!
