Fantastic BBC documentary on the entwined origins of American neo-conservatism and Islamic terrorismism, debunking many well-accepted fantasies along the way.

Available in 3 parts on google video:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

The title says it all. This was a last-minute idea to help Jeff get out of his film requirement after his more ambitious ideas didn’t work out.

This was part of a final project for our marketing class, where we came up with an idea for a fancy toosty-roll, targeted to a high-end market.

Freshman year, Jeff and I did this little project…

This is was by far the most ambitious project that Jeff and I actually accomplished. 70-page script, more than an hour of final footage, and tons of work. Check it out:

Check out the concert we did at Zach’s birthday party. We played 4 songs (well acutally 5, but the 5th was awful). Here are the videos:

Anonymous Japanese Suicide

Derek J Hale

Intelligent Shoes

Unfortunately, the video is a bit messed up in the middle.

Two Cage Disco

Found an interesting error well linking to an external static library. Seems that ignoring the windows runtime library msvcrt.lib can lead to the following error:

Strangely, ignoring msvcrtd.lib does not. I found the advice at
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread281669.html

I'm posting this directly from Writerly.com. Not bad at all.

It can be extremely annoying when compilers don't issue at least a simple warning to pretty obvious programming errors. This one is extremely weird:

GCC detects the problem:

test1.cpp: In member function `float A::radius() const': 
test1.cpp:15: erreur: ne peut resoudre la fonction surchargé 
<< radius >> basé sur la conversion vers le type << float >>

Visual C++ sees no problem whatsoever, even with all warnings turned on. The function seems to always return 0.
Interestingly, if the function is NOT overloaded, VC++ does figure it out.

test1.cpp(15) : error C2440: 'return' : impossible de convertir 
de 'float (__thiscall A::* )(void) const' en 'float'
Aucun contexte dans lequel cette conversion est possible

OK, so thanks to a friend's suggestion, I looked into trips going through Ireland and found some nice trips. That's a good thing, because prices are definitely on the rise. I would suggest getting tickets soon, or plan on waiting until the last moment.

Here we go. As usual, cross-Atlantic prices come from CheapTickets.com and the inter-European ones are from RyanAir (ra) and EasyJet (ej). Note that the combined flights (that have an inter-European component) would involve changing airlines, and possibly airports. All prices are in USD.

Boston - Paris: 935
Boston - Toulouse: 1068
Boston - Shannon - London - Toulouse: 823
Boston - Dublin - London - Toulouse: 888
Boston - Cork - London - Toulouse: 938
Boston - London - Toulouse: 876

NYC - Paris: 932
NYC - Toulouse: 993
NYC - Shannon - London - Toulouse: 813
NYC - Dublin - London - Toulouse: 916
NYC - Cork - London - Toulouse: 938
NYC - London - Toulouse: 863

Montreal - Paris: 1075
Montreal - Toulouse: 1093
Montreal - Shannon - London - Toulouse: 1114
Montreal - Dublin - London - Toulouse: 1134
Montreal - Cork - London - Toulouse: 1236
Montreal - London - Toulouse: 986

For those interested in the raw data I used for composing the combined trips, check the rest of the post.

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