Messaging
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| Alex T. | |
| Currently watching: Installation of David Naylor as the 15th President of the University of Toronto live webcast
Wow. David Naylor has the voice of the infamous computerized text-to-speech engine. His tone absolutely drops off at the end of his sentences like the computer. | |
| Alex T. | |
| Happy Birthday, Tim!
Oops...I was too busy hacking away at the keyboard last night on my programming assignment that I neglected to post this up. Mr. Tim is now officially 19! =) __________ From the UW Daily Bulletin: Say it again: UW is 'best overall' http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2005/nov/07mo.html Waterloo has held onto its position as the number one "comprehensive university" in Canada, as well as its number one "best overall" ranking by reputation in the nation, in Maclean's magazine's annual universities issue. The magazine will hit newsstands across Canada later today. UW has been "best overall" in Canada in the reputational rankings for 14 of the 15 years Maclean's has offered that title. Waterloo was also named "most innovative" in the national reputation survey, and swept all the reputation categories -- No. 1 Highest Quality, No. 1 Leaders of Tomorrow, No. 1 Most Innovative, and No. 1 Best Overall -- among comprehensive universities (those with a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs, but without a medical school). Coverage in Globe and Mail | London Free Press Reaction from Laurier | Toronto | McGill "The University of Waterloo community is very pleased with this wonderful news," said president David Johnston. "This is testimony to our people -- our students, faculty, staff and alumni around the world. We couldn't be more proud of them." In a news release issued yesterday afternoon after universities got a preview of the Maclean's issue, Johnston said the rankings reflect "a team approach at Waterloo that involves thousands of talented and committed people on several campuses and connected coast to coast and also around the globe." Provost Amit Chakma said the rankings "reinforce the university's strategy of recruiting and admitting the highest quality students -- undergraduate and graduate -- and recruiting splendid faculty members to bring top-quality education to our students, in the classroom and the lab." He added: "Waterloo has been working very hard the last few years as a university to add even more high-quality individuals to our already strong faculty ranks, bringing in bright young professors who are leaders in their areas of research. If you bring the very best they become a magnet and draw others with similar aspirations, including very accomplished students and staff." On the way to topping the magazine's list of 11 comprehensive universities, UW scored high in several individual categories, placing first in six of them: student retention, student awards, classes taught by tenured faculty, awards per full-time faculty, and alumni support, as well as the reputation survey. The reputation rankings -- traditionally UW's biggest boast -- are arrived at by surveying thousands of people across Canada, including high school guidance counselors and principals from every province and territory, chief executive officers and recruiters of companies, heads of organizations and university officials. Among the comprehensive universities, Victoria is listed second behind UW, with Guelph and Simon Fraser tied for third. McGill and Toronto are tied as the top "medical-doctoral" university in the country, and St. Francis Xavier is the top "primarily undergraduate" university for the fourth year in a row. __________ I <3 UW =D | |
| Raymond | |
| meh close enough | |
| Scott | |
| There's no Taiwan Club, but there is Taiwanese Student Association. | |
| Xiao | |
| if im the whore. then u must be the pimp mr alex...
you who advertise me ;) well... at least now im off to new york next term :) | |
| Alex T. | |
| looking at...Xiao? =D | |
| Tiff | |
| eww my pic look eww too
what was i looking at?? | |
| Raymond | |
| lol WEEEEE!!! | |
| Tim | |
| DOOO IT ALEX, DOOOO IT!!!!!!
=D | |
| Alex T. | |
| I am so tempted to change xiao w. to xiao, "the whore", w. | |
| Raymond | |
| didnt need to know that xiao lol | |
| Xiao | |
| ... my goodness... wth is that picture!!... it looks like someone poked me in the eye!!!
I'm not blind yet... im no cyclops... and haha... thanks for changing to link to my portfolio... as i don't... relaly... ever use my blog anymore i feel like a whore... i keep selling myself.. and skills everywhere :D | |
| Anonymous | |
| rotfl i was in the slc too and heard it xD hehe | |
| Raymond | |
| lol great observation alex | |
| Alex T. | |
| I'm sitting here in the Student Life Centre for lunch and everyone's getting a lashing of Jay Chou's slurred music from some Taiwan Club (I'm guessing it's some Taiwan Club..it's got a T and a C in it..I think... That's all I saw on my brisk walk past) | |
| Alex T. | |
| New additions to the site
First of all, the Photos page in the navigation bar up top actually links to a page that lists the entire photo archives since June 2004: Photogragraphy Club - Park Day 2004 and Formal 2004 - "On the Riviera" to recently in October: The Photographic and Digital Imaging Show and My 19th Birthday. It'll be much easier for you guys to take a walk down memory lane now :) I've still got to format the page and images, but the links are all there. Second in photos: (wait, that sounds like a Steve Jobs Apple presentation...but anyway...) Second in photos: I'm going to try a switch to a spiffy new template for the photo albums that uses a low bandwidth Flash interface and an XML data source for the image list. This way I can caption retitle images and add captions easily...useful for making halarious comments about the ridculous things you guys do that I capture. Sidenote in photos: Google's Picasa2 is an awesome and free photo organizer. Spiffy software that makes me think iPhoto for Windows...because we aren't all that lucky...as some people :( It even does reads RAW, do non-destructive photo editing, slideshows, photo editing, timelines, collages, web galleries, searching, and spiffy smooth scrolling, image rotations and resizing. It's cool. If anyone knows of an even cooler piece of free photo-organizing software, do let us know! And that's photos... Now, Uploads. I can now quickly upload to my webspace from anywhere through my web interface instead of firing up the SSH Client application or logging into myuwaterloo. If for some really odd reason that you guys need to send me something that's over the limit of your e-mail attatchment size or whatever ludicrious scenario you can think of, I do have upload accounts setup for some of you trusted folk out there. And lastly, some random form of an image has been uploaded for everyone on the list on the right side. If you've got a better image, let me know. If you've switched your blog/site/personal space to somewhere else, let me know as well. That's all the site updates for now. I haven't gotten to making pages for this Messaging page yet. That's...somewhere down the pipeline... for now, Mr. Scott can exercise his fingers! | |
| Raymond | |
| Woops its a little too big the comic strip is lol | |
| Raymond | |
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| Scott | |
| mmm deliciously yummy array. hmmmm. i think i had too much coffee today. | |
| Raymond | |
| Yay spymac is back... and my comp is fixed, woo!! thanks alex man | |
| Alex T. | |
| For all of you who were using Spymac, the blogs are back up agian on the SPymac 4 WebOS! | |
| Alex T. | |
Over the Edge
For anyone who's interested, the entire content of this Messaging page is actually driven by a flat file, not a database... as our ECE 223 Data Structures and Algorithms professor Dwight W. Harder would put it, "It's an expensive operation..." The flat file has ballooned to ever 110KB since its inception back on June 25th, 2005. That's about 4 months now? This Messaging page has absolutely gone...over the edge... | |
| Scott | |
| OMG brilliant idea! Then they'd actually refill my favourite coffee and tea when they're empty!
I am trying to gain weight...with all that scrolling, I'll be getting nowhere! hahahaa. | |
| Alex T. | |
| Alright Raymond, come on over... I'll see what I can do.
_____ Mr. Scott... Why not we just RFID everything at BMO? Like your coffee and tea packets for instance =D ummm...I don't have a MySQL db to select anything from... if... you... know... what... i... mean... I mean... can I get a MySQL db on UW engage? Oh, does scrolling take a wholesome 6.247 calories? work those fingers Scotty, work those fingers! Actually, I'm thinking of a new way implement this page. Yes, this "page". Hmmm... maybe I pull off some AJAX stunt on this page? HMMmmmm.... *ponders* _____ The topic for the report came from my horrendous experience while working on some project at BMO InvestorLine. I tried to do a little research into how I could improve the process... and so... the report was born. _____ Oh, Timmy! We'll be pumping our pompoms and cheering you on through til next week. You're almost there =) | |
| Raymond | |
| Ok Alex I give up this virus is being a real bitch and it's only attacking my Norton programs and kicked me out of my own admin account for Norton
I'm coming over to your house at 10 on Saturday | |
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