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		<title>HOWTO: Setup MediaWiki as a Single-user CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you&#8217;re abusing MediaWiki as a content management system for your personal website, here are some suggested options to set in your LocalSettings.php: #Stricter than normal settings: #prevent anonymous users from registering $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; #prevent anonymous users from editing $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false; #disable section edit links for anonymous viewers $wgDefaultUserOptions['editsection'] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2010/07/18/howto-setup-mediawiki-as-a-single-user-cms/</link>
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		<title>Of Braces and Semicolons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a post that lives up to the second part of this blog&#8217;s tagline by being about programming! (Well, there was C in a (Nutshell)2, but my point is it&#8217;s been a while.) Now, I&#8217;m a would-be language designer. Programming language theory fascinates me, and to that end I&#8217;ve read a number of books on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2010/01/24/of-braces-and-semicolons/</link>
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		<title>The Weather, Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was pretty bad rain today, very unusual for San Diego in my experience (hence this post; you know it must be quite bad if I wrote one of my few, infrequent blog entries about it). However, I can probably count on one hand the number of rainy days I&#8217;ve experienced at UCSD, and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/12/07/the-weather-man/</link>
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		<title>Things that will ruin your life:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia editing (oh, the inane and petty arguments no one outside of the &#8216;pedia will ever care about&#8230;and this too) TV Tropes (it will explode your tabs. Seriously.) Reading manga online (the wasted night (and day? (days(s)?)) of archive binging) Watching Bittorrent&#8216;d anime series (at least this one has the natural limiting factor of your connection speed) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/10/19/things-that-will-ruin-your-life/</link>
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		<title>xkcd &amp; tvtropes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just saw the below xkcd and had to comment on it. It&#8217;s oh so true. One time, I got close to exhausting the memory of my 4GB MacBook Pro I had so many tvtropes pages open in tabs. It took a good three minutes to close them all&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/07/12/xkcd-tvtropes/</link>
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		<title>CodeRally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Meta-note: Yes, I realize this is a bit dated and definitely out of chronological order; So sue me.] Earlier this quarter, I, in partnership with Nick, participated in a programming contest put on by the CSE Department. It used a Java framework called &#8220;CodeRally&#8221; and involved programming an AI for a car on a virtual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/06/01/coderally/</link>
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		<title>Obligatory Post-SunGod Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You knew it was coming. I couldn&#8217;t let the biggest on-campus event of the entire year slip by without mention. So, yes, I attended Sun God Festival 2009, despite my usual aversion towards parties (who am I kidding, social events generally; but I have made progress). Unfortunately, my MMW 3 paper was also due that day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/05/23/obligatory-post-sungod-post/</link>
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		<title>Broomball &#8211; The Official Sport of Fun and Bruises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, some of us Roosevelt First Years played Broomball; and as a first-time player, I have to say it was a large barrel of fun, even though my side lost (but considering that no one ever declared which color brooms were supposed to go which direction and thus the teams were arbitrary and uneven, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/05/01/broomball-the-official-sport-of-fun-and-bruises/</link>
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		<title>Human Sorting Algorithms Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back in high school (Menlo School to be precise), myself and some other members of The Neighborhood (the math &#38; comp sci club), suggested we try acting out the various sorting algorithms with humans and videotaping it. Unfortunately, we never were able to make the necessary arrangements to actually carry out the project, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/04/06/human-sorting-algorithms-video/</link>
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		<title>C in a Nutshell in a Nutshell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading C in a Nutshell, which I highly recommend as an excellent C reference and tutorial to anyone with programming experience. I previously learned some MS Visual C++ at CyberCamps some years ago, but finding the language a bit clunky, I searched around the web, found Python and have been in love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/04/04/c-in-a-nutshell-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<title>F before D, except after C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A public service announcement to anyone taking the Math 20 series at UCSD: I would strongly advise you to take Math 20F (Linear Algebra) before Math 20D (Differential Equations), despite how that seems alphabetically out of order. Why? Because a few classes into 20D last quarter, my Prof basically said that the current order is weird [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/04/04/f-before-d-except-after-c/</link>
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		<title>Please Pardon Our Dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished moving the blog off of WordPress.com and onto my own servers, hence why the theme suddenly changed. I&#8217;m still finishing up the setup, so don&#8217;t be alarmed if things suddenly change over the next day or so. You may be wondering why I&#8217;m going through all the trouble to move things. Basically, WordPress.com [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/03/07/please-pardon-our-dust/</link>
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		<title>The Next Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought this was funny enough to warrant immortalization in a blog post: So, apparently my facial hair makes me (vaguely) resemble the venerable Commander Riker. Teh awesome! Thanks to the mysterious and ingenious &#8220;Mr. Zhang&#8221; of Desmond for this revelation. I apologize in advance to my readers for the inappropriate foreign-language comments this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/03/06/the-next-generation/</link>
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		<title>ALL CAPS Laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend does email customer service for a computer company; I worked with him for while. When you work in customer service long enough, you see just how unreasonable people can get (and how little the average person knows about computers). In particular, both angry people and computer-illiterate people tend to use ALL CAPS in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/03/02/all-caps-laws/</link>
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		<title>Pop Tarts &#8211; My Disturbing Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just now went to OVT for some cram study food. After deciding on Kellogg&#8217;s Pop Tarts, I needed to choose which flavor to buy. There was Cherry, Blueberry, Chocolate, and maybe Strawberry (it&#8217;s late, okay?). Thinking I ought to choose the healthiest flavor, I compared the fruit flavors and didn&#8217;t notice any significant difference. Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/02/27/pop-tarts-my-disturbing-discovery/</link>
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		<title>Amateur Fiction FTW!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend recently started publishing a serialized short science fiction story on his group blog, and it&#8217;s terrific so far. It&#8217;s intriguingly titled &#8220;Cities of Bronze and Glass&#8221;. It&#8217;s about a &#8220;device&#8221; that seeks to find the mysterious &#8220;Creator&#8221;. In doing so, it buries itself only after making a backup of itself, which it names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/02/01/amateur-fiction-ftw/</link>
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		<title>Tetris: Now proven to be hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some random interesting research I came upon: Tetris is Hard Apparently Tetris has now been mathematically proven to be computationally difficult. NP-complete to be more precise. I suppose this means I&#8217;ve been solving traveling salesman problems all this time without even knowing it! Now if we could just harness this power&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/01/18/tetris-now-proven-to-be-hard/</link>
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		<title>Frink &#8211; The Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of an epic fail journey I plan to blog about soon, even though I probably would do better instead to forget the event entirely and suppress all memory of it, I walked by and took special note of an honest-to-goodness street with the same name as every nerd&#8217;s favorite minor Simpsons character, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/01/18/frink-the-street/</link>
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		<title>Biohazard (no, my room isn&#039;t that dirty)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d chronicle this just because of the sheer weirdness factor. As I took the elevator up and back, to and from the math homework boxes so I could turn in my MATLAB homework, both times two students got on the elevator wearing gloves and moving a large, wheeled trash bin with biohazard warnings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/01/18/biohazard-no-my-room-isnt-that-dirty/</link>
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		<title>Freakin&#039; TritonLink!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I recently experienced significant problems trying to enroll in CSE 15L (Debugging Lab), but finally got them resolved and am now in the class. Summary Let me give you a rundown of what happened: When my enrollment time came around, all the seats for 15L were full, so I put myself on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/01/18/freakin-tritonlink/</link>
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		<title>&quot;Phrase from Nearest Book&quot; Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via a random blog on Planet Python: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Here&#8217;s my fairly boring quote from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2008/11/15/phrase-from-nearest-book-meme/</link>
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		<title>xkcd is My Homecomic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is quite a bit belated, but about a month ago, on the way back to ERC from the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) building, I ran into a guy wearing the same shirt as me, specifically, the one based on this comic. He was talking on a phone as we walked each other. We looked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2008/11/09/xkcd-is-my-homecomic/</link>
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		<title>The Military</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently UCSD is located near a military base. I&#8217;ve seen and heard military jets and a group of Apache helicopters fly by a few times now. It&#8217;s kinda surreal, not to mention noisy. Not exactly something they mention in the promotional pamphlet :)]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2008/11/09/the-military/</link>
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		<title>The Six Colleges of UCSD &#8211; A Ranking Guide for Applicants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Last updated: March 2010; Hi, College Confidential folks!] A friend of mine who&#8217;s currently applying to college recently asked me about which college of UCSD to apply to, not knowing that you don&#8217;t choose one but rather rank them. Anyway, in the interests of helping him and other future UCSD applicants, I&#8217;m writing this guide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2008/11/08/the-six-colleges-of-ucsd-a-guide-for-applicants/</link>
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		<title>iTunes Genius &#8211; It&#039;s not what you think it&#039;s for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you&#8217;ve probably heard about Apple&#8216;s latest announcement (apologies for linking to CNET; I couldn&#8217;t find a better treatment of the story and didn&#8217;t want to waste time), which includes, among other things, iTunes version 8. iTunes 8 comes with a new feature called &#8220;Genius&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rebertia.com/2008/09/11/itunes-genius-its-not-what-you-think-its-for/</link>
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