Random Wisdom » Life http://scrolls.mafgani.net An attempt at organizing my thoughts ... Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:54:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Status report http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2009/10/status-report/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2009/10/status-report/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:51:28 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=349 Looks like it’s been more than a year since the last time I’ve published something here. I’ve just been really busy, now more than ever. I have been periodically saving some blurbs as drafts but I never quite seem to have the time to polish them into real posts.

I really should be working on my thesis and a number of other papers but it does get a bit tiresome. Whenever that happens, I’ll work a bit on the drafts as a distraction and hopefully manage to push a few of them out over the coming weeks…

]]> http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2009/10/status-report/feed/ 0 First day at DoCoMo http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2006/01/first-day-at-docomo/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2006/01/first-day-at-docomo/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:07:00 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=43 Thus starts my first day at work. I’ve already got 2 papers to read and a meeting scheduled for later today. Got a brand new computer (HP Compaq DC5100) running only Win XP :( . For the kind of work I’ll be doing (software development), I would have liked a *nix based machine. Apparently the simulation workstations are *nix so I’ll have to make do with Xwin32 for the next 6 months.

Well .. at least I still have my own PC which should become net active again sometime after next weekend.

Alright then, back to my reading. Good luck to me! :)

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]]> http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/12/2006/feed/ 0 Picture of the Moon http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/12/picture-of-the-moon/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/12/picture-of-the-moon/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:10:00 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=38 For a while now I’ve been thinking of photographing the moon. It was a clear night and I finally got around to doing exactly that:

I used my Fujifilm FinePix S5100 (Black&White mode, ISO 200) at a combined maximum zoom of 360x. Then I used Photoshop to increase the contrast a little. I’m quite surprised with the result — didn’t expect this from a consumer grade digicam.

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The Trek Life

]]> http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/09/the-trek-life/feed/ 0 First blog http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/08/first-blog/ http://scrolls.mafgani.net/2005/08/first-blog/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:54:00 +0000 Mostafa http://scrolls.mafgani.net/?p=3 Well .. I’ve been giving this some thought .. the main motivation behind starting this thing is the fact that I seem to forget a lot of the stuff that I found out digging through the web, linux man pages etc.. let this be my (somewhat) permanent record of the things I do .. to save myself the trouble of backtracking through memory lane…

I guess this will be mostly computer related .. Linux, TeX, etc..

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