Pooya Karimian
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![[Google - Level 3 Communications]](/blog/images/google-level3.png)
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 Communications.
For the curious out there here are the other <10 IP assignments:
1.*.*.*: Reserved - By IANA (International IP Registry)
2.*.*.*: Reserved - By RIPE (European IP Registry)
3.*.*.*: General Electric Company (ge.com)
4.*.*.*: Level-3 Communications
5.*.*.*: Reserved - By IANA (International IP Registry)
6.*.*.*: US Army
7.*.*.*: U.S. Depart of Defense
8.*.*.*: Level-3 Communications
9.*.*.*: IBM
Another fantastic photo story from Boston.com's Big Picture
I don't 100% agree with all the points but good to read.
A nice portable application made from cygwin and cygwin/X. Very easy to use, something I always needed when people asked me about remote graphics connection to Linux.
About Kiva, a non profit that gives microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, hoping to fight the poverty the right way. On Techvibes blog.
Youtube stops couple of seconds into playing, Asa Dotzler says upgrade your flash player.
and here is National Do-Not-Call List (DNCL)
In a John Resig post titled "jQuery.embrace().extend();"
Amazing shots with Olympus E-300 and different Zuiko lenses.
![[Google Picasa]](/blog/images/picasa_logo1.gif){kind=logo}
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 if this is a Picasa 2.0 - Firefox 3.0 issue but I think I had the same problem with Firefox 2.0 too.
Searching for this, looks like many people have the same issue with hardly any solution at hand. For this reason I made an easy hack for myself which I thought worth publishing here as well. It is a bookmarklet.
Bookmark the follow link by dragging and dropping it to your bookmark toolbar or right clicking it:
Download with Picasa
Then, browse to the main page of the album you want to download and press this bookmark. You will be prompted to open a file with Picasa which if you accept will download the whole album for you.
If you have the same issue, let me know how this works out for you.
He moved back to Tehran from LA
NASA will be relying on Russia and Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for launching astronauts from 2010 to 2015.
Postcards from the Bleeding Edge on what humans have done to the oceans.
Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer. via Slashdot.
on Slashdot
Can be used to calibrate LCD screens. The viewing angle test is pretty awesome.
statistics from German users of Mozilla
One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet. found via an email from Amir.
on slashdot. watch the video.
Just great! Processing visualization language ported to JavaScript using the Canvas element. Make sure you are using a good browser like Firefox 3.0 and watch the demos at the end of the post.
Is it? I think it is more a question of whether they can release those secret products sooner or just make as much money as they can from the current one and spend it on cakes.
about the types of jobs in BC and how they are mostly hardworks with people outside receiving the earnings. the linked article there also has some interesting facts: BC's median wage fell 11% in the same period that Ontario's median grown by 8%.
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 New Zealand:
- Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
- more on youtube
- Farazoo blog
The Government of Suzhou, China announced that they can't held Robocup 2008 in July due to the Olympic related issues! There is also an urgent announcement on the robocup website.
carbon dioxide emission from data centers
smugsmug's now playing videos in HD using flash's H.264 codec. I know youtube has it too but I don't think it is by default. I have to figure it out for my own youtube tv.
Gadget Lab from Wired.com
They use Microsoft's Virtual Earth to get semi 3d views of houses and offer solar panels for them. on CNet's Green Tech blog.
I am back and will post photos of my trip soon but for now enjoy the April issue of "Life Goes On In Tehran".
great stuff going on with Mozilla and Firefox
On Popular Science. Via Slashdot.
"The Unknown" on The Daily WTF. Via Digg.
A video from the TED: Talks series the story of a neuro scientist who had a stroke herself. Via Richard.
and here is Ping Identity's press release.
Because the Pakistani government hi-jacked their IP addresses!
While in the middle of moving the server that hosts this site and before I redesign my site, just wanted to show you something:
![[Stone Pillar]](/photos/view/misc1/stone-pillar1.jpg)
That's yesterday somewhere in Deer lake park. I took a photo of the very same stone pillar a year ago and made tiles from it for the background here. So yeah, don't think of this site as a simple dead one: there's a story behind every piece of it [wink].
See also:
- 8m.com Aug 1999 (I had a page from 1997 but can't find it archived).
- Sharif: Mar 2001
- Sharif: Feb 2002.
- Sharif: Aug 1999.
- SFU: Aug 2003.
and
- How to create seamless tiles in Photoshop.
Now what do you suggest for the new design?
NASA earth observatory report on "Severe Snow in Iran" shows how the whole country is covered with snow. And just so you know Iran is the 18th largest country in the world area wise. Link via Ehsan.
It used to be British bands that were the best but now it is Canadian artists. Go Canada!
Commercial free concert on current tv. Story via Cnet news.com.
Via the Associated Press. Same story on BBC Persian.
The robotic dinosaur on CNET News.com
as told by the graffiti artist A1one
(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 - 1/8 sec - f3.5 (too noisy):
well, when freezing it didn't work.
![[Sun and Moon]](/blog/images/sun-n-moon2.jpg)
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 just read about it. It is the story of a small-city in Iran where people are so much into star gazing that some nights they even turn off all the city lights. Read it here: Stargazing Bug Seizes the Imagination in Iran.
- Photos: A Town with a Passion for Astronomy
Thanks to people like Roozbeh. Canada also voted no (disapproved with comments) after a public review period.
The freshmen orientation at Sharif. Look at this and this too. I was computer class of 78.
Iranian drama show on state TV. Here is the story in the Wall Street Journal.
Again by Ahmad Kiarostami. Don't miss their Vancouver concert.
This is great! The classic Mac vs PC. And like the elder master C64 says, PCs are for nerds.
Iran in the final game of 2007 FIBA Asia Championship, Tokushima, Japan. This is also the 2008 Olympic qualifier.
How long before they make one of these autonomous? The story is via Slashdot.
My M.Sc. thesis defense is this Friday. Here is the screen-shot of the title page of my presentation:
![[Audio Communication for Multi-Robot Systems]](/blog/images/thesis-title1.jpg)
I have no job and no place to stay after I graduate. So I guess I will be searching full-time for a full-time job then.
- Abstract and place on FAS website.
- A Swarm of Chatterboxes, previously on FAS newsletter.
- Autonomy Lab.
- School of Computing Science.
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