As part of our house modernization process, we bought an Ecobee3 Wifi enabled smart thermostat. We hope that this small device will help reduce the size of our utility bill. The product looks very simple, but it comes with three additional sensors that can be placed in different rooms, and …
more ...Since Drupal 6 is no longer supported, I upgraded this site to the lasted version of Drupal 8.4.2 by following the guide. As you can see, the upgrade mostly worked. However, there are a few points of caution as well as some unresolved problems.
As before, I setup …
more ...We traveled with Boyan, our 13-month son last month to Japan (for those who are wondering, yep, he is the main reason why this blog has been so quiet in the past couple of years. :-)) and spent a unforgettable 10 days there. Before I went there, I searched over the …
more ...JSON is arguably the world's most popular human readable data format today. It has largely replaced XML as the data exchange format on the Internet. One of the key reasons for the proliferation of JSON is its simplicity. The data structure are very limited: only arrays, enclosed with []; and objects …
more ...Clojure has been my primary programming language for a couple of years now. During this period, I have relied on my trusty Vim text editor as the development environment. Coding Clojure in Vim had been an enjoyable experience with these excellent Vim plugins:
more ...What makes Mayor Stubbs special?
Check out the personality (or shall I say, catality) profile for Mayor Stubbs constructed by Juji based on Mayor Stubbs' tweets.
Have you meet Mayor Stubbs? Does this sound like him?
What really makes me smile is the summary of the profile. Mayor Stubbs is …
more ...After a long drive, the last stop of the second day of our trip is National Museum of Boyana Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a very small church, originally built in the lat 10th or early 11th century, with the addition of the central wing in the …
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The second day of our trip began with a long drive from Sofia to Rila Monastery, the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bulgaria we visited in our trip.
This beautiful monastery is situated in the southwestern Rila …
more ...We were quite amazed by the National Archaeological Museum, especially the Thracian treasures.
The museum is located in the largest and oldest former Ottoman Mosque in Sofia.
Thracian treasures. Can you believe that they were made before the Roman Empire?
Gold jewery
Gold wreath
Gold mask and ring from Thracian …
more ...Speaker: Tom
Dear fellow kitties, I am going to show you how to get a kitty manicure and pedicure.
First of all, let me show you my beautiful finger nails. My mom polishes each and every one of them on a weekly basis. Such weekly pampering is essential for a …
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Planning:
Following my usual strategy for travel planning, I first got some rough ideas on the highlights of the country by referring to the "Best of Bulgaria in 12 Days Tour" by Steve Rick. Based on Huahai and my own schedule, I then decided that we could spend at most …
more ...Today I have encountered dirty diaper for the very first time in my life and it is not pretty. While doing routine cleaning of our guest bathroom, I was shocked to discover a stack of dirty diaper deposited in the trash can in our guest bathroom. I am still struggling …
more ...I was traveling in Europe last week. While I enjoyed the history, culture and food very much, I was not a big fan of the airports. Like many people, I would like to stay connected most of the time, at least be able to access my emails and the Web …
more ...The IT department of my company has been urging us Mac users to upgrade OSX to Lion a long time ago. After getting a few papers submitted last week, I finally got around to upgrade the Snow Leopard for my Macbook Pro work machine. Since I couldn't find Lion on …
more ...If you have one or more long hair cats at home, like our Mayori and Tom, you probably share the same dream as us --- a house without cat hair, at least a house without having cat hair everywhere.
Towards this dream, we have tried out various products. Here is a …
more ...While preparing the camera-ready version for our CIKM demo, my colleagues and I found that the screenshot included in our paper appeared to be fairly blurry in the pdf version, even though the original .jpg file looks fine.
I searched online to try to find the solutions. After a few …
more ...For unknown reason, my machines would suddenly disable their screen saver options (e.g. with the "on resume, display log on screen" check box grayed out). Whenever this happens, it would trigger the security alert and I will get a warning from the IT department to fix the issue.
I …
more ...I happen to come across this excellent article from this year's ICML on Machine Learning that Matters. I encourage everyone, especially computer science Ph.D students, to read it.
As an industrial researcher who draws a lot of job satisfaction by making both scientific and practical impact, I completely agree …
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