Amir's Diary

Confidence overflow!

2010-05-15T23:52:00.000-07:00

We were on a translink bus.

Hasti: Do you know how to unload the bike from bike rack?
Amir: What! I have been biking in Vancouver for two years. I even broke one of my hands while biking! You expect me to not know how to unload a bike?

...

When I wanted to unload the bike, I encountered a bike rack which I didn't know how it works (apparently, Translink installed a new kind of bike racks on some buses).

The only man in the washroom!

2009-10-17T21:18:00.000-07:00

Last night, some of my friends and I went to a pub. The washroom in the pub has something unique. In vancouver, it is common to hang pictures and photos in the pub's washrooms. In the men's washroom of this pub, there were five large photos of lesbians. As one of my friends mentioned, the good point about this washroom is that you are the only man in the washroom.

2009-10-08T23:03:00.000-07:00

Am I luckey?

Two days ago, I recieved two $50.00 ITunes' gift cards for free from Apple. I think I won those by entering my information at one of our campus store. At first, I thought that I will try to sell the gift cards, but I couldn't find anywhere (anyone) to sell them. I am going to try the craigslist as my last chance.

I think at last, I should buy an IPod to be able to use the cards.

Bad Lock

2009-10-02T22:02:00.000-07:00

I think I am the bad lock for Canucks (Vancouver's hockey team). I watched their live competitions four times with my friends in Mountain Shadow pub. In all these four matches, Cancuks lost the game.

I here announce that I will watch the next Canucks match, live, except the Canucks' fan pay me 1000$.

2009-06-18T10:31:00.000-07:00

Last night, we gathered around Vancouver Art Gallery to condemn election results in Iran. As a part of the event, we lighted some candles. The fire department forced the event's organizer to have some fire extinguisher ready to use. Compare that with what is going on in Iran.

My birthday

2009-06-13T13:23:00.000-07:00

Today is my birthday. I had some plans for my birthday party. I was thinking about having a party in which we celebrate our victory in presidential elections.

But now, I can not understand how Ahmadinejad can be Iran's next president.

Today is the worst day in my life.

My Homepage

2007-09-06T00:53:00.000-07:00

After a long time, I am going to finish uploading my homepage. There is only one thing remained: My photo. I should try to find a photo of mine which is suitable for the homepage. But I afraid that I have no such a photo!!

The main problem about setting the homepage up, was registering a domain. At first, I was thinking about an ir domain but unfortunately Amir.ir was registered before. Choosing a generic top-level domain had not been as easy as it might seems. There is no top level domain which is special for homepage but I guessed(!) the .net is the most relevant one.

Developing a Web Blog Search Engine

2007-07-02T10:29:00.000-07:00

These days, I am thinking about developing a search engine which is focused on the search on the web blog. My main doubt, besides the programming issues, is how such a site could earn money?
I will try to develop it by pascal (FPC) and O-PSP.
Currently, I am working on the database implementation of the SearchEngine.

An easy problem!

2007-06-11T01:21:00.000-07:00

Try to code this easy problem:
Write a function which calculates the sum of the ASCII's code of all characters in an string. In C/C++ one may write as follows:

int Sum (char *S)
{
  int Result= 0;
  int i= 0;
  for ( S [i]!= 0; ++i)
  {
    Result+= S [i];
  }
  return Result;

}

Is it correct? Does this function produce the correct answer, always?

P.S. I love PASCAL!!??

A Good project

2007-06-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, One of my friends proposed me a project that looks interesting for me: Develop an application which is able to download and save all the posts and comments on a weblog. In second year of B.Sc, we are asked to develop a very small search engine which automatically crawls some web pages and searches on the crawled pages. I was looking for an opportunity to complete that project, and develop a small search engine which searches on some weblog providers (for example PersianBlog, Blogspot and etc).
Lets see what will happened!

What should we do?

2007-05-30T22:35:00.000-07:00

Today, I read a news on Jamejam newspaper which announced that the two international Iran's airports, i.e, Mehrabad and Imam Khomeini airports, are closed from 8 AM to 12AM on the anniversary of Khomeini's death, here. This decision is so wonderful that it can be one of the best joke of the century, isn't it?

Different Views

2007-05-15T11:33:00.000-07:00

During my B.Sc, I usually had sat on the last row of the class and usually had had no notice to the instructors. There were some classes in which I had slept in them. In those days, I though with myself that the instructors would not see me or notice my actions in the class, because of existence of the many students in the class.

But these days, I am an instructor in Sharif University of Tech, my classes have about 40-50 participants. I understood that those instructors had been completely aware of my actions!!

Now, I have a big question!! What should I do with these students?

FC6

2007-01-10T06:06:00.000-08:00

Today, I reboot my FC6 after I think about one month. Now, I can believe the things that I heard about Linux and why it is used as the web servers OS.

ICANNGA Conference

2007-01-06T11:57:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is the last day for registering in ICANNGA conference in which I have paper about my thesis. I called my supervisor on Thursday, and asked him to send an e-mail to someone in Sharif and tell her that he wants to publish this paper and then the university would pay the registration fee. But till now, He didn't do any thing.

Mortelle

2007-01-03T21:35:00.000-08:00

I've finished reading a book named "Mortelle" by Christopher Frank, that book is very interesting for me. Alireza propose reading it to me. I think that if one of the political prisoners in Iran wants to write his/her dairy, he/she will find the way that this book is used very interesting. The narrator of the story is a normal man who is living in an strange country. The country is strange because the government tries to control all the actions, relations and even thinking of the people. The man in the book though that he is seek and the government tries to cure him.
It really worth reading.

Iranian's scheduling

2007-01-01T21:46:00.000-08:00

I have submitted a paper about my thesis to CSICC'07. In their schedule they said that the acceptance notification will be announced till an Dec, 23rd. But today is Jan, 2nd and nothing happened. A funnier problem is that now my browser says that the paperstaus page is not found. It will be the 12th conference of this series and they still have problem with scheduling.

PSP project

2006-12-31T05:43:00.000-08:00

Today, finally I reported my TOEFL score to USC, UCSD and UCI. It was a long time that I wanted to call ETS. Now to finish my apply procedure, I just need to find a correspondence at UCI. I sent two e-mails to professors at ICS Theory Group to find if I can find anyone correspondence or not.
Another work which I want to do is to upload my files of PSP project. I think I can finish my work late tonight. I will explain PSP project later.

My first post

2006-12-29T09:31:00.000-08:00

It was about four years ago when I decided to have a weblog. But, because of several reasons I postponed my decision till now. Two days ago, I met two of friends, Sina and Hamid after about six months. Hamid and Sina, like always, started to laugh at me about the way I like to live, work and etc. About one month ago, two of my other friends warned me about the way I've chosen for my life. This caused me to think about changing my life-style. I thought with myself that starting a weblog may be a good change. Lets try it.