Daily Stuff--9/29/2012

Languages--Chinese:

I watched episode 70 of Travel in Chinese. This episode was another review on topics like taking a trip to Xi'an and seeing the terracotta warriors.

Articles:

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about the dispute between Apple and Google regarding the maps apps produced by both companies. Apple has issued an apology to all of its customers facing difficulties with the Apple maps while Google has said that Google maps can still be accessed through the web browser, though an app won't be available for quite a while. It still seems like Apple should have waited to work out all the bugs in its map app before getting rid of Google maps. It makes perfect sense that they would want to create their own app in order to compete with Google, but there have been so many bugs and so many people have started making jokes about Apple maps that it seems unlikely that they'll be able to recover from this.

Philosophy:

I read about the metaphysical vs. the man-made. A common misconception is that the man-made is metaphysical but it's not for the simple fact that men make choices. The laws that govern society, while chosen for usually very good reasons, were still chosen. The laws that govern existence have always been there and can't be changed. No choice was involved.

Internships:

I looked at the co-op and internship programs for ATA Engineering. They have a summer internship program for student who live in San Diego. They are encouraged to take on as much of an engineering project as they can handle and by the end, may be able to tackle individual projects with minimal help.

To-Do:

• Find out how to rent textbooks and whether or not mine are available using this option (1/2 hour)
• Found out how to rent textbooks. I'm still trying to find out if mine are available with this option.
• Learn about how to change blog format and layout so comments can be posted after a block of text (find a video)
• Find out the difference between dynamic and simple templates (1/2 hour)
• Done. A dynamic blog allows viewers to change the way they see the blog whereas simple templates are fixed and cannot be changed by the viewer.
• Find out if textbooks are available in ebook format (1/2 hour)
• Done. They aren't.
• Edit header--make text bigger so there is less space (45 minutes)
• Couldn't edit existing header so I made a new one and saved it somewhere else. This might allow me to edit it now.
• Go through the first 10 chapters of the ebook on Python programming and do examples (2 hours)
• Got through the first three chapters.
• Financial aid (45 minutes)