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Some more videos

The videos for the graduation ceremony (no sound at the beginning) and the other footage that we shot while my guests were here are ready:
Graduation
Guests in May

I graduated

It’s not much but it is a start… A few weeks ago was the ceremony. To be honest, I don’t feel like I have a better degree than people without college education. I will definitely have to continue. The cool thing was that all my family came to see me and we had a great time. Here are some pictures. We also went fishing and we caught 18 stripped bass and 3 blue fish. Here are the pictures and the video.

First publication

Well, I was just informed that my first publication in a scientific peer-reviewed journal has been accepted. The name of the journal is Journal of Applied Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography. The title is VCIF2: Extended CIF Validation Software and my coauthor is Prof. Herbert J. Bernstein.

Various

Exactly one week from today is the last day of my last semester at Dowling. They say I will be graduating after that. The situation is pretty calm. I do not have tons of papers and finals to think about. I have only one paper for Const. of Personal Identity and a take home final for the same class, a small project for Design with Computer II, and a final for Intro to Spreadsheets and VBA. For the POCSR, I have a working project - iDiet. No big deal. I plan to finish everything by the end of this week, so that I am free next week.

Wordpress 2.5 maybe has holes

I updated my wordpress to 2.5 recently. Yesterday I was surprised by a bunch of iframes in every single wordpress file. Dang! I think there isn’t a patch for that yet and I added a small piece of code to record my POST variable so I have more info next time it happens, if it happens. Until then, I can only run my perl one-liner in the directories:
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edit: it could have happen trough Coppermine. I don’t know. The funny thing is that I found this post:click

Jumper

Unlike the previous moviewe watched, I liked Jumper much better. I’m not saying it is the next Matrix, but I liked the idea. It is just that after watching it, I had this pleasant feeling an this desire in me. Of course I’m not even considering the possibility of teleportation, but the movie made me feel good and made me dream for a while about the possibilities (positive and negative) of one such skill…

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Cloverfield

I don’t know why but this movie was really bad! Maybe because of the constantly shaking camera, or because of the beaten to death idea of destroying Manhattan and everybody who didn’t manage to escape, or the bad ending, I don’t know. It is a fact that I hated the movie and that I angry with myself that I watched it. Boradt, at least, I managed to stop half way trough, but in this movie I expected something to happen at the end… however I was left with my hope.

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Exercises

For a while now I’ve been doing some martial arts exercises - an old passion of mine. This time, however, I decided to go the internal way, focused not on the Martial aspect but rather on the Health aspect. Even though I do practice Iron Palm, my focus is Yang style Tai Chi. I’ve learned a few chi gong exercises and the 24 form yang style TC and I try to perform them every day along with as much of the rest of the following routine:
Gentle warming up and stretching exercises.
Dynamic stretching of the legs (front, sides and back).
24 Form Yang style.
Iron Palm practice.
24 Form Yang style.
for time:
15 pull-ups , 15 push-ups, 25 crunches, 50 jumping jacks, 10 push-ups and 15 pull-ups.

I have to modify a little the last ones because I don’t have a pole for the pull-ups, but they are also the ones that I do least, because the whole thing takes at least 90 minutes.

I feel a lot better when I exercise ( even though everything hurts ).
P.S. If someone knows or has books or videos about the MiChuan Yang form I will be very happy to take a peak.

Iron Palm

I started practicing iron palm three weeks ago with both hands. I have my mung beans bag and I use Dit Da Jow every time after practice. So far I have no complains, which is very good. If I manage to keep doing it for 3 months I will try my iron palm on a wooden board or a small brick. I am using the Wing Lam method and I’m glad I don’t have to break my hands into rocks, iron shots or heated red sand.

iDiet

Today, according to our timeline, we have to release iDiet 1.0 Final. It has been one week since RC3 was released and nobody complained. According to the stats on SF.net I think we have enough downloads for someone to complain if something is broken. RC2 had a couple of big flows but we fixed them fast enough. Today we will release 1.0 Final and we will continue adding functionality slowly.