http://pooyak.com/blog/ a Pooya's Blog en-us removethis_info@pooyak.com 2009-12-14T00:00:05-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000591.shtml Last week Google announced its Public DNS service with its mind-blowing 8.8.8.8 IP address. That made people wondering how did Google got to get that fancy address. It turns out that Google bought 8.8.8.* and 8.8.4.* ranges from Level 3... 591@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Network 2009-12-14T00:00:05-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000576.shtml For some unknown reason, Google's Picasa sometimes looses its external application registration with Firefox. This means that you don't see the "download this album" link when viewing an online album although you already have Picasa installed. I'm not sure... 576@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Programming 2008-10-02T11:12:47-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000562.shtml Run into Shanbehzadeh Ensemble through a Farsi weblog [*], I thought I would share it with you. Saeid Shanbehzadeh (Farazoo) plays traditional music of Bushehr, a southern city of Iran. The following four clips are from their 2007 performance in... 562@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Life 2008-05-07T22:29:46-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000546.shtml While in the middle of moving the server that hosts this site and before I redesign my site, just wanted to show you something: That's yesterday somewhere in Deer lake park. I took a photo of the very same stone... 546@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Blogging 2008-02-18T22:57:43-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000534.shtml (Photo by HAMACHI - CC License) I have a new camera. It's an Olympus E-510 DSLR. I'm still playing with it to learn its features but so far not bad. Here is a not so good shot at ISO1600... 534@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Photos 2007-12-12T22:04:14-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000530.shtml Today was Blog Action Day. Fifteen thousand blogs wrote about the environment. Lone Sysadmin wrote a thought provoking post in his blog: Paying Billions To Never See The Stars Again. Check it out. Also this is old news but I... 530@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Life 2007-10-14T21:25:41-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000514.shtml My M.Sc. thesis defense is this Friday. Here is the screen-shot of the title page of my presentation: I have no job and no place to stay after I graduate. So I guess I will be searching full-time for a... 514@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Research 2007-08-02T08:44:25-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000509.shtml Robocup 2007 started in Georgia Tech on July 1st. Roozbeh knows more about that, cause he is there. But I'll try to update this post with the links I find: - The RoboCup Federation - RoboCup 2007 Atlanta -... 509@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Research 2007-07-03T17:58:43-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000499.shtml What would computer scientists do when they get to meet twenty brand new robots? Program them. Write a paper about them. Lay down somewhere among them! Do nothing with them and go write their belated thesis. By the way, these... 499@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Research 2007-06-15T10:06:16-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000481.shtml Update [July 3rd]: It seems like many people are running into this page and when they search for it they find my site. Just for your information this is a problem with Yahoo servers and your account has not... 481@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Programming 2007-04-11T19:53:15-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000473.shtml BBC Chinese reporter's story and photos of Iran: - Article: Iran Overshadowed by the Bright Spot [Chinese] - Photos: Street Memories [Chinese] - Photos: Portraits [Chinese] - Photos: Cultural History [Chinese] - Photos: Black and White [Chinese] Found via... 473@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Life 2007-03-25T12:37:42-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000448.shtml I posted a photo of snow in SFU in my flickr account this morning. Right after that I got a message, which seemed like an automatic one, from a news site named Now Public. They asked for my permission for... 448@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Photos 2007-01-11T13:05:38-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000447.shtml I am back from the States. Here are my photos and videos of MIT Museum. There you can see robots, holograms and fancy machines.... 447@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Photos 2007-01-07T15:15:09-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000438.shtml I moved my hosting from 1and1 to Dreamhost. If you're reading this, it means that the transfer was successful. Here's a treat for you: Woodpecker near Buntzen lake, Coquitlam / October 2006... 438@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Network 2006-11-13T17:10:26-08:00 http://pooyak.com/blog/archives/000432.shtml Last week I went to Beijing, China for IROS 2006 conference. I took a whole bunch of photos, more than 800s. But there is only a few good ones in there. I started posting some of them to my flickr... 432@http://pooyak.com/blog/ Photos 2006-10-22T14:45:39-08:00