Imagine a day of my life that I had to gather all my stupid gadgets before going to work. Unplugging the damn iPod form the usb hub. Checking if it's fully charged and taking the cable with me if it's not. Looking for the cell phone that is getting charged somewhere in my room to place it somewhere in my backpack and finally taking out the PDA form it's cradle. Hoping it's fully synced. At the end of the day there was always sth wrong. Either I was missing the headphone or the SD card of the PDA was the wrong one or the cell phone was just deciding not to cooperate for the whole day.

Reading a book and listening to music on my way to work is one of my biggest hobbies on the bus. I had to take out my big Axim X50 and look for the small stylus and then start digging in the stupid microsoft reader to read a simple book. I remember I had to do PDF->DOC->LIT (File Coversions) cuz damn adobe acrobat 2.0 on windows mobile 2005 was far too slow for reading anything on it. It drove me insane every time I tried to open a PDF that was fully optimized for the small screen to fit in it.

Finally there was that Sunday night I was fooling around in Ebay once I noticed an iPhone with a good price, just ready to bid. There was that moment that I closed my eyes and I just bid on the phone hoping Steve Jobs have done sth as great as my Macbook. Although I had read a lot about iPhone since it was released but I was never sure if it could quite replace all of my three devices and you are never sure if it really works the way they market it.

 2 weeks later I unwrapped the little box and got the beauty out of it. There was this shiny device that took me 10 minutes to unlock and jailbreak. What I got after was a nice phone that is cooler than my iPod and its my PDA running OS X as opposed to the stupid Microsoft's crappy windows mobile.That's all I have ever wished to have. I carry around a portable library of books which also plays music for me, make phone calls and organizes my life. It's my Oxford dictionary when I need it which happens to run MSN messenger, Google talk and ICQ. It also happens to have a 2 mega pixel camera which has a fair quality for a snapshot. From all of my experiences with reading a PDF file on a screen, I am happy to say that I have finished reading more than 4 books in 2 weeks. Something that happens to be the most lovely feature of my iPhone.  I can 't really wait until January 18th when I can get one of those Rogers data plans so I can be online all the time.

Believe it or not, a picture of me was published in the September 28th of the Computer world. True story is that me and my friend were playing Pingpong when suddenly a flash went off and I saw this photographer kneeling on the ground, checking the taken shot on the LCD of his camera. My buddy asked me whether our picture was taken and I replied who really cares! Few weeks later in one ordinary day I was standing in line for the Tim Horton's semi nasty mocha that I noticed there is a story published on Computer World with the title of "A Big Blue Idea Factory" and I noticed the picture of me and my friend just right in those papers attached to the wall.

You can check out that issue of the Computer World here . Page 20 has the complete article on IBM. And don't forget that ping pong is only one of the reasons that I love IBM. Although its been more than 2 months that I haven't been playing at all.

We always think that a website giving us more sophisticated options and features for more flexibility in terms of the service that they provide would make it more useful and add more value. But I think the trend is smoothly changing to simple pages that offer only one service and more important they do it great and complete. Everyone has used Google for sure. In their first page there is a Logo and a text box to search. Nothing has changed since Y2K that I remember except the results that are enormous and much more relevant than before. Still you can use tons of innovations that come out of Google labs every day. That’s why I want to call this decade of Web 2.0 or maybe Web 3.0 in a close future the decade of simplicity. Simple pages with self explanatory design that is polished with CSS and has gotten efficient with AJAX.

2 Weeks ago I decided to buy an iPhone to replace multiple devices that I should carry around all the time. My iPod, Cell phone, PDA and my point and shoot camera. Just for a little bit of a background, I can easily call myself a good eBayer and I use it for buying almost everything that I can find there. But all the stupid procedures that takes for listing and the price tags that brings you additional charges is always an obstacle and something that prevents you for easily listing your item. I always think as shipping as a great pain the butt and the money that Paypal gets as a commission, the listing charges and shipping fee will lead me to just forget about it. So I tried to use this alternative that has always been around and I once used it to find a place to live in and I should mention that it was quite successful. So I listed my PDA, and an extra RAM and useless first generation apple Bluetooth mouse on an ugly website like craigslist. Registration takes less than minute and listing something is as simple as writing an email. A title and a text box for writing the description of the item. You can leave your number or they can contact u through craigslist which makes you anonymous during the whole trade. It’s worth mentioning that Craigslist doesn’t charge at all and also you can use it for selling stuff locally. Means people who are interested can just meet you wherever you agree on and exchange the money and the good. That simple. It didn’t take more than 12 hours that I found someone interested in my RAM and another guy in my PDA. And I finally we met in less than a week only because I was busy. Otherwise I could have done it in the next day. SO from listing to getting the money in cache it could have taken less than 48 hours which is almost impossible on eBay, Even if you list it for local pickup.

Why we should all buy a mac?!! No more comments.Just watch and enjoy.

This post is a guide for getting this semester text books although it's a bit late but it will help somehow. I will delete this post in less than a week. so let your friends know about it asap. 

• CPS 310 reference: I got this from emule. Use it later on for your stuff. Download it from HeRe
• CPS 590 reference: Although not necessary but cool to have it just in case: Download it from hErE
• CPS 460 reference: Unfortunately I bought this one from the store at Victoria st down the Dundas St for 50 bucks.
• MTH 304: I bought it from ebay for 47 bucks. here is the link.
• MGT 200: I got it from my friend!!!

 p.s: This post is not written by the owner of this website and has been hacked  by DARK ALEX!

I found this on a weblog and I just tested my self to see how nerd I am. OMG. I screwed the test. I can't believe it. If any of you plans to take the test please don't forget to put the score back in this post as a comment. The website said: Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!

Access your pc or mac from anywhere and download the file that you want with an easy to use web interface. Folder share that is now a part of windows live services let you download your files anywhere from it's website. Simply install the server site on the side that you wanted to have access to and use it. As a professional in security I am not yet sure about how vulnerable it is. But I think we will see the exploits soon or late. 

Our old prof Dr. Panar who is teaching us Smalltalk, UML and C++ this semester as an OOP course, complained to us about using a "join node" in our state machine. He was 100% sure that we don't have such an animal! in our UML reference book for our state machine and is only for sequence diagrams. When my buddy -Hossein- showed him the node in the state machine component of IBM Rational Software Architect the prof was fully satisfied without any further questions. Although he was pretty sure that state machine doesn't have join or fork node but he used to work for IBM and he has been obsessed with it since that time! What a B.S!

Here is the answer for previous poll:

It took me around 15 minutes to modify the front page of my site including the design and meta data enhancements. Thanks to iLife and specially iWeb I used a ready template with straight forward drag and drop stuff and some extra html modifications with dreamweaver to come up with the front page.

Here is Ryerson Award Ceremony for Science students:

Although my boss was absent in this session planning for future computer science graduate program, but at least he gave every one the chance to see Dr. Eric Harley(One of the great Prof of our department) in suit. I liked his complement at the end of introducing me though.