The latest issue of National Geographic has a great article on Frederick Law Olmsted, an amazingly prolific landscape architect best known for designing Central Park with his partner, Calbert Vaux. Not mentioned in the article is his Bay Area work. For example, he drew up the first campus plan for UC Berkeley in 1866, which …
Monthly Archives: February 2005
9-year old African-American boy sings Chinese opera
Tyler Thompson doesn’t speak the language, but he sings it very well. Oakland: Boy, 9, a rising star in Chinese opera • San Francisco Chronicle Boy who sings in Chinese draws oohs, ahs • Oakland Tribune (link good until Feb. 20, 2005) (Chronicle link added on Febrary 16, 2006)
Symbolic links and hard links in Windows
I just found out that Windows 2000 and XP have hard links and symbolic links, just like Unix. But Windows doesn’t expose those features in the user interface. Dang it, I could have been using links for the past 5 years! Thankfully, some enterprising programmers have created utilities for creating and removing symbolic links (called …