http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog Adding nothing constructive back to the web Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:48:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today Honda announced a pair of bionic legs to assist in walking for rehabilitation and the elderly. It's a pretty neat extension of their work with ASIMO (and makes me think Kamen should be in Japan), but what really got me is one of the last quotes in the article: "Then ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2008/11/07/too-long-in-the-us/ Apparently activists are not only terrorists, but it's all due to poor software. "Both Hutchins and Sheridan said the activists' names were entered into the state police database as terrorists partly because the software offered limited options for classifying entries." http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2008/10/08/default/ Today I received my "Economic Stimulus Rebate Check" in the mail. Being Canadian, I enjoy how the check was dated July 4, and I'm going to be spending it in the UK. It is all rather ironic and symbolic. I need the check to offset the drop in the US dollar ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2008/07/07/stimulus-check/ A lemeur in a white suit with a nasal infection opened for Ben Folds, well, right now. According to students surroundig me currently, he is "less than entertaining." I considered altering his wikipedia page as part of my Internet civic duty to include this fact. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2008/02/29/eef-barzelay/ Honestly, how difficult is it to determine how many delegates each candidate has? ABC: CBS: CNN: NBC: NYTimes: Almost forgot FOX: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2008/02/07/how-difficult-is-it-to-count/ Yesterday I finally got around to watching Oldboy, a very disturbing Korean movie based off of a Japanese mange on the theme of revenge. This is revenge on a level of complexity, scale, and style that's hard to image and not fully appreciated until the very end. I'll keep this ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2007/08/06/oldboy/ While I haven't finished converting my RBAC implementation for MySQL to conform to the SQL standard (I wish we had thought of this originally), there has been some interest so I placed my code online. You can find my RBAC in MySQL page here. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2007/08/01/rbac-in-mysql/ Last weekend I took six other IBM interns on a small tour of New York State. We rented an environmentally unfriendly Ford Freestyle, loaded it up with our bags, and hit the highway at around 6:00 PM on Thursday. As many jokingly said, I had planned a week worth of ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2007/07/14/intern-tour-of-new-york/ Today Mark, Marta, Joshua, and I tackled Bear Mountain. We set off at around 11:00 this morning (just barely morning), made the short 10-12 mile drive, made a few wrong turns, and finally ended at Bear Mountain Inn. It was an interesting site. Hundreds of families were there playing soccer ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2007/06/16/bear-mountain/ On Sunday around ten IBM interns and I made a trip into New York. We split into two main groups at the beginning: those who wanted to go to museums, and those who wanted to wander the city. I joined the wandering groups and we walked from Grand Central to ... http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~imolloy/blog/2007/06/12/trip-to-nyc/