Ilyia Kaushansky

If there is one place I'm going to miss in Waterloo, it's the Revolution Nightclub(or simply Rev). I've been going there for almost four years now and that place just keeps on getting better and better. I generally hang out in the Purple Room, that's where trance/techno/house is being played. What's interesting is how crowd has changed in the Purple Room over the years. When I just started going there it was mostly ravers in baggy pants, lots of people high, few girls. These days it's almost 100% typical clubbers, people are just drinking and, surprisingly, there are many good looking women. Over the past 3 years I've been primarily going there on Trance nights, which happen once a month. The resident DJ is Dennis Hahn . It's always great Trance/Tech-Trance when he is on, and the crowd is going nuts ! I rarely step outside of the Purple Room, however. The music in the mainroom sucks, and the crowd is very thuggy-looking(makes me wish they had a dress cod...

Amazon, Froogle and I'm sure others have what are called Wish Lists. Wish List is nothing more than a list of items that a user wants to have. Wish Lists are great, but unfortunately if a user is using both Amazon and Froogle he needs to maintain two separate wishlists which is clearly inconvenient. Thus, I think it would be awesome if some independent company would host the wish list, which could then be shared(with customers permission) with various online retailers. IMHO, this would be convenient to both customers and retailers. Consumer's convenience factor is fairly evident. But why should retailers be interested? Well, consider the following scenario. Retailer A contains product X, and retailer B doesn't. Clearly, since B doesn't contain X, customer cannot put X into his wish list while browsing B's website. He can; however put the item on the list while browsing A. Now, a month have gone by and B has obtained X. Customer has returned to B's web-site, and ...

They say cigarettes are addictive. They also say that about drugs, coffee and various other things. But for some reason nobody mentions VI . Yes VI, VI: a text editor originally created for UNIX, but now available for pretty much any operating system out there. When I was first shown VI, I laughed. I thought it was a crappy editor, a remnant from the 70s, an era when the mouse was still unknown to the masses. I had trouble exiting the damn editor, nevermind successfully editing a file. Nevertheless, I forced myself to learn it. Partly because I wanted to look cool among my classmates, and partly because I wanted to see for myself what all the VI hype was about. For the next month my working productivity was nearly zero. VI turned out to be surprisingly difficult to learn. The biggest problem was the number of key combinations I had to learn. Additionally, it was very difficult to accept the fact that navigation was now done using 'h', 'j', 'k', 'l' inste...

It is a well known fact that Soccer (or should I say Football?) is the most popular game in the world. It is also a well known fact that US/Canadian TV channels don't show nearly enough soccer. What I want to know is why aren't there websites dedicated to showing highlights from the games. I'm not even talking full games, just 5-7 minutes of highlights would be enough! For example just today was an amazing Real Madrid - Barcelona game, the result of which was 4-2, and I have no way of seeing the goals. I would even pay a monthly fee for an online service which would show the highlights, and I'm sure I'm not the only one !