I was listening to a radio program last night on KOMO 1000 radio (my local news radio station). There was a program on called “Beyond the Headlines” and it covered the issue of online posting and privacy, as well as identity theft. For me, I hate publishing my personal information online, so I keep it to a minimum (that’s why …
The IRTC, or Internet Raytracing Competition, is a computer-generated still image/video competition. Users submit their computer-generated images or video to the website for all to see, based on a topic for a certain period of time. Then, a panel of online judges decides for the best still image or video. The competition has been running for over 11 years. There …
Growing tensions between the United States and both the nations of North Korea and Iraq have led me to believe that they will be part of the next world war. Recently, North Korea sentenced two journalists to twelve years in hard labor. I believe that the journalists had no intention of breaking the border crossing law, and that the N. …
Today, I decided not to take a one hour and thirty minute trip back home after clam fishing. Instead, I decided to catch the ferry. It was 3:50pm. We were wrapping up clam fishing and the ferry would leave at 4:15pm. Quickly, I drove over to the ferry terminal and to my delight, discovered that it was under 20 dollars. …
For those of you who have no idea what base64 is, it’s basically a standarized code. How it is formed is that when you input a string, the program puts your input through a rule of how it’s going to be modified. The output, then, is the input put through the rule. I don’t quite understand it yet, but here’s …