Ruckus

OK, I have advertised lots of other services I use, why not advertise Ruckus too?

So, it's a free music service for college students (mainly in US). You register with your college e-mail address, and then you can download and play tons of music on your computer. Of course, it's legal and free.

Why wait? Go to
www.ruckus.com

Armenian-Turkish Concert (CANCELLED)

Our Armenian-Turkish concert was prevented by outside parties pressuring our musicians not to perform. The Turkish Cultural Society and Armenian Students' Association at Brown are still committed to creating events of mutual benefit aimed at creating apolitical dialogue. Even though the situation was completely outside our reach, we apologize to all our friends and guests for this unfortunate cancellation and any inconveniences caused by that.

Brown Turkish Cultural Society and Armenian Students' Association

More Technology

I'm discovering more and more Yahoo! products nowadays. They are all good, actually, better than Google in many cases. One of my newest discoveries is the Yahoo audio search. Try it, it finds the audio files for you, easily.

http://audio.yahoo.com

Picasa

I just realized how Picasa web albums are improved. They offer 1GB free space for your photos. By the way, currently my 150 photos take only 25MB with 1024x768 resolution (a pretty good quality). They have lots of new features. Definitely check it out:

http://picasaweb.google.com/

Concert

Nowadays, we are working on a concert project. It's going to be a very nice one hopefully, with very good music and food afterwards. The concert is a joint Armenian-Turkish concert, dedicated to a healthy dialogue.
Come, join, bring friends...
April 6th, Brown University, Providence, RI

http://students.brown.edu/Turkish

Technology

Back to technological issues.
I realized that currently the best image search engine is Yahoo
http://images.search.yahoo.com/

It really is the best. Actually, Yahoo was also the first to introduce the video search engine. They are still good, with better advertising, they'll keep up.

Technology

I saw a kid, who was using some machinery on his ears. That small 'computers' made him able to hear. Since he hears using those, his speech was not that good, because speech is just imitated hearing. But, can you imagine how happy it is for him and for his parents that he, who most probably could not hear and speak without those devices, can now both hear and speak? If, the technology can greatly improve even only that one person's life, then it is worth. From now on, no one can tell me technology is making things worse...
And by the way, computer science rocks :)

Türk-Amerikan yaklaşım farkları

Melvin'in yazısından alıntıdır (hoş, o da tahminen bir yerlerden aldı ama olsun, kendi hazırladıysa da helal olsun :)


Amerikan: hey dostum burda bir problem mi var ?
Turk: noluyo lan burda ?

Amerikan: nasil gidiyor mike?
Turk: napiyon lan?

Amerikan: korkarim seni oldurecegim!
Turk: salavat getir pezevenk!

Amerikan: oov dostum hic cool olmamissin.
Turk: bu ne lan götüme benzemissin.

Amerikan: hey steve, neden kendine bir icki koymuyosun?
Turk: la suleyman, kap iki bira gel bakim hemen!

Amerikan: lanet olsun sana christine!
Turk: allah belani versin nurcan!

Amerikan: tanri askina brad kes sesini artik!
Turk: allahim sabir ver, sus lan yeter!

Amerikan: aman tanrim simdi napicaz?!?
Turk: ha siktir sictik?!?

Amerikan: help me please...
Turk: baksana lan!!!

Amerikan: ne derler bilirsin jack, hayat beklenmedik surprizle doludur
Turk: valla oglum bir soz var hani, kaderde varsa düzülmek neye yarar üzülmek...

Amerikan 1: dante'nin bu kitabini okudun mu micheal?
Amerikan 2: aaa evet , gercekten edebi degeri olan bir calisma.
Turk 1: abi da vinci sifresini okudum super!
Turk 2: lan birak! iyice entel dantel oldun ! Layt herif !!

Amerikan: hey jerry gel pizza ye dostum...
Turk: sülo gel lan buraya mis gibi menemen yaptik...

PLEASE ANSWER

What is the color of the sky? (Please leave your answer as a comment)

Einstein was a knowledgeable man

I came accross the following the previous day. Supposedly, Einstein said it. But the quote is more important than the owner:

"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."

I strongly believe this is true, especially since I'm trying to write a conference paper.

Best Translation Award (given by Cengiz)

I got the "Best Translation Award" from Cengiz for the following translation of a Turkish song. You can listen to them from my voice if you'd like.

The original is:

Hatırla sevgilim
O mesut geceyi
Çamların altında
Verdiğin buseyi

Beni mesut ettin
Sen de olasın
Aşkımı inkar edersen
Allah'tan bulasın



My translation is:

Remember my dear
That happy night together
That kiss you gave to me
Under the willow tree

You made me very happy
May you be happy too
But if you deny my love to you
Then I am cursing you

Google Documents

I was expecting this to happen. Everything is moving online. In foreseeable future, all the things will be running online so that you can reach your information anywhere you like. Although, there will be privacy issues, it a very nice thing.
So, go check http://docs.google.com/ and see the online document and spreadsheet editor of Google. It's free, so use it. You can reach your documents anywhere you like and you can convert them to the most useful file types. Give it a try.

FC TSA Soccer News

FC TSA vs Your Mom: 5-0

Free Image Browser

The best freeware image browser and photo editor is Fast Stone. Go check
www.faststone.organd get must-have applications for free. I've been using it for the two years now and I'm perfectly happy.
Have fun :)

on IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)

Nowadays IDEs show which right parenthesis or brace matches which left one. They should at least do the following two things:

- Instead of showing just the one on the right or left of the caret, show both.

-- Even better, they should color every left one with different color, and color the right one with the color of whichever left it's ending. For example, the first left parenthesis can always be red and I can thus know I should put right parenthesis until I get to the red one.

1st

Just trying folks