HongyunArt Archive* dodoskido: Windows into Microsoft *

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Well it has finally happened. No, no...I haven't lost my mind (not yet at least). I've finally begun on the "Great Dodoskdo Cleanup of 2008". The side bar has been greatly trimmed and will be slowly replaced with more useful links rather than the absolute mishmash of yesteryear. The biggest change is the introduction of Haloscan into my life. Comment spam bots ("bots don't kill websites, spammers kill websites") were bringing my beefy virtual hosting machine to an absolute crawl and would periodically crash it. Thus, I've offloaded the problem to Haloscan. I'll be donating for a premium sub if it's up to snuff.

You'll also notice a culling of ads. I get annoyed by ads on other sites especially helpful but sleazy sites that breakup posts to pop in a giant google ad block. While the google income does help a bit, it doesn't net me enough to care if I loose a few bucks here and there as long as I bring up the performance of my pages and make it more legible.

Which brings me to colors. Yes, it's a little muddy, but I liked the Blade Runner cache it holds. Nevertheless, the colors and entire template will be hucked soon enough in favor of a more simple color scheme.

So what prompted the abrupt spurt of activity? Well, for one, Hongyun had her solo art exhibit opening this past evening (photos). The event went very well, but we were dead tired afterwards. Anyway, it was a huge load off our backs. Couple that with some insomnia and you'll see why I suddenly got the urge to move on cleaning up.

Anyway, good luck and good night.

* Iraq War Planning Picnic *

Iraq War Planning Picnic
Originally uploaded by titaniumtommy.

Here's the latest editorial cartoon (original) published by Hongyun. Enjoy!

06/19/07 11:03 permalink discuss

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* Wifi on ACTransit *

Wifi on ACTransit
Originally uploaded by titaniumtommy.

Here's another of Hongyun's illustrations (albeit a quick one since they needed it within a couple of hours). Check out the article: Wifi on AC Transit Buses. I'm not sure why this would be useful as there really aren't tables or anything to work on (except maybe a tray for the long distance buses). Nevertheless, I think it's really cool that someone is trying to bridge the wifi gap.

05/31/07 12:04 permalink discuss

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* Supernova *

Supernova
Originally uploaded by titaniumtommy.

I'm going to start a new series of posts that highlight the stories in the Daily Californian (the Cal newspaper) for which Hongyun has drawn illustrations. The first is Supernova. Apparently, scientists have discovered a brand new supernova. Consider the fact, however, that the supernova is about 240 million light years away so it exploded 240 million years ago and we're just seeing the it for the first time now. In the words of Keanu Reeves, "Whoa..."

05/28/07 08:53 permalink discuss

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* Lhasa Sunset *

eBay: Lhasa Sunset (item 280043894622 end time Nov-05-06 21:45:00 PST)

Yes, we just put it on ebay, but no we don't expect to sell it. Hongyun created her own homepage as a class project and figured she can get people to see her page by creating an ebay listing. You can see her page here, or click above to see the ebay listing first then click the link in the listing. (If you're going to click, please do before Nov 6th since there are prizes for the top sites with the most hits!)