May 2003
CSS Rules
Christopher Schmitt shows you 50 ways to stylize headlines using CSS. I really dig this type of stuff :)
via Zeldman
Edit [5/1/03 1:09am]: In case you didn’t notice I streamlined my post format. I think it looks awesome personally. I actually used one of the ideas laid forth in the above article for stylising my headlines :)
EET 257 Grades Were Updated Today
…and I’m at 85.5 ;) Damn CPR class ;)
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April 2003
Classes and MEAT
There are approximately 26.7lbs of tasty meat coming my way via my grandma. For some reason the other day she decided that she should send me a nice package from Omaha steaks :)
It should arrive tomorrow (thursday) and we’ll probably have a nice cookout on Friday.
Class Update:
I got my test results back from the last EET 257 test and I got a 93 or 94 (I cant remember and I’m pretty...
The Artists?
Someone makes the observation that the proceeds from the new Apple Music Service don’t go directly to the artist.
I hate to break it to everyone but when it comes right down to it, Joe Average doesn’t really give a damn about the artist. Oh, sure he loves the music and he wants it but what it all really comes down to is how much Joe pays for that music. The vocal minority will plead and...
Yikes
Four websites reported today on a helpful hint my girlfriend Jacqui posted on Ars over half a year ago :O. How very odd, I wonder how it came up all of sudden.
It really does work btw ;)
802.11b Squeeze smoove computin TiBook WiFi shiatsu BoingBoing":http://boingboing.net/#200207127
"TiBook WiFi shiatsu Hack the Planet
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Suparhearo!
Site Updates
Mostly under the hood stuff. I took more advantage of Movabletype’s new features for 2.6. Stuff like tags to insert my Creative Commons license and RDF information. I also added in CC information into my RSS feed. I made sure my RSS feed validated to v2.0. I also made sure that my site was still validating XHTML 1.1 Transitional. I validated my CSS. I also added GeoURL Meta tags to my...
Man Balls
Why do I get so many hits for “Man Balls” from google …. O_o
Try it yourself!
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Fake Celebrity Journals?
So I’ve come across something very odd. While trying to figure out who the hell Gideon Yago was, I found a link claiming to be his LiveJournal. So I was looking and it seemed a bit fishy that he would keep one, but stranger things have hapepned. So I look and he’s got links to livejournals of other MTV VJ’s. Odd. Carson Daly keeps an online journal? Doesn’t seem likely :P
So I check into...
OPML Parser 1.0.2
I updated my OPML Parser to output html-entitied text for the URLs and titles of the links. I also added functionality to add the site’s description to the TITLE attribute of the link.
[download OMPL Parser 1.0.2 ]
Who am I?
Kasia says that people who run websites like this one should let people know who they are. I agree ;)
About Clint
I’ve been a pretty big proponent of being open about myself online for quite a while and its not as scary as you might first think :)
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Pronounciation
SQL: Ess-Que-Ell GIF: Gif (G as in Graphics) /etc: Eee-Tee-See GUI: gooey
Let me know if you need any more corrective treatment.
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EET 231 Test 4
Well I got a 100% on a test. I think that might be a first in College ;) I’ve gotten 99’s and 98’s but no 100s. The sad thing is that my grade actually dropped (he put in a whole bunch of other grades as well). This class has an odd system for grading which was actually helping me out for a while.
Quiz grades (we take one every day) are weighted more than the final. So they heavily affect...
Darwin Streaming Server & Shoutcast Streaming...
I’m writing up two mini-tutorials on installing and configuring both Darwin streaming server and Shoutcast streaming server for a class project. Look forward to seeing them on my site soon seeing as I’ve put some time into em ;)
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Fishie
superjacqs: I’m not sure… the girls are telling me this, and they don’t know anything that’s going on in the background :-P superjacqs: they’re like “Mark looked at it and says we’re blockd” superjacqs: and I’m like “how?” and they’re like “babelfish is smart” IdioSYNCrasyFG: _ IdioSYNCrasyFG: lol superjacqs: I need to talk to one of the guys :-P IdioSYNCrasyFG: it is a fish that can speak like 12...
Killer
This week has been a killer :ugh:. In any case, its about over ;) I had about a million things due yesterday and a test to boot. To top it off I got up LATE AGAIN. So I’ve taken further precautions and I am pulling out all the stops. Until school ends I leave the window open at night (makes the room freezing cold and floods the room with light around 6am). Up until today I only had a single...
Deep Space Nine
I went to the mall today with full intentions to finish up my set of The Next Generation and begin my set of Deep Space Nine but it seems that Suncoast isn’t carrying any TNG stuff anymore. ;(
Oh well, I got DS9 season1 & 2 :D
DS9 1&2
The Whole Family
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE …oh man…
And you were wondering how I’d link the two together :D
I must also note that...
Week 14!
Well week 13 has come to an end! And with that, I no longer have to attend my 7:30 on monday, my 2:30 lab on tuesday and my 2:30 lab on friday for the next 3 weeks.
Wednesday of next week is going to be the last class I have to attend for my MWF 9:30am class too :) Which is probably pretty good since I forgot to set my alarm and slept over again this morning :-/.
Once again I am lucky...
Filezilla 2.1.6 is out
[ Download it! ]
Lots of cool new features :)
—- New features: – added SSH protocol and compression selection for SFTP transfers – added minimize to tray button – some interface improvements, including xp theme awareness – the IP address used for active mode transfers can be specified. Hostnames are also supported. – quickconnect history will be remembered between sessions —-
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Uhrm...
Time Traveler Arrested for Insider Trading
Girls with Guitars (or Basses)
Girls who play guitar or Bass are cool
D’arcy
The Donnas (NOW)
The Donnas (THEN)
They’ve grown up, eh?
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Dream
I had a dream (was I just thinking about stuff as I fell asleep?) about doing a research paper. It would center on the perceived rift, which mostly exists in my mind but has been somewhat substantiated by others, between the school of engineering and the school of technology.
I would hand out little surveys to technology majors and engineering majors to weigh their perceptions and opinions on...
Guinnea Pig?
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Updated my OPML parser
Just a little note. I finally made a tiny update to my OPML parser PHP class to take into account the feed groups that SharpReader implemented (and Syndirella didn’t have).
Anyways, here’s the tarred source .
SharpReader 0.9.0.1
Its out with a host of bug fixes and stuff. Get it while its hot!
I really like the new plugin support he’s implemented, but I can’t seem to get the blogThis plugin to work. I edited my template to read:
http://www.phaedo.cx/scgi-bin/mt.cgi?is_bm=1&bm_show=trackback, category,allow_comments,allow_pings,convert_breaks&__mode=view&_type=entry&...
Me Today (don't be scared)
:O
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Another EE(CS) college student who blogs ;)
Lookie what I found . Could it be a coincidence that I use the username “phaedo” and this blog is named “I’m Dirtae“ ?? I think not. Discuss.
A run down of my summer and fall classes
Summer 2003:
COM 250 – Mass Communication And Society
A survey of the print, broadcast, and film media in their relationship and influence on society. Study topics include: mass communication theories, documentaries, commercialism, news media, media effects and control, feedback, educational broadcasting, and audience analysis.
Humanities/Social Studies Elective #1, This was to fill a...
POWER
I got to test my cool little amp board today. After an hour and half of trouble shooting (a loose OPAMP pin and a weird cold solder join on the -28V input pin), I had a working unit. Oh and I also had a 330kohm resistor where a 33kohm should’ve been.
Anyways I finally got it going and it was doing pretty good without the suspended supply. I got it doing 6.3Vrms to the load and pulling ~450mA...
You might find this interesting. (if you're a CSS...
Form Element Alignment in CSS
I found it to be quite cool :)
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What is my DEAL
I seemed to sleep over this morning again. Despite my problems on wednesday I managed to sleep through EET 231 this morning. Lucky for me, the daily quiz was a take-home, and my friend Manish grabbed me a copy. Also lucky for me the notes were handed out and Manish also grabbed me a copy and lended me his completed version :)
Did I also mention that I won the election for VP last night? Well...
I got my board back...
Well I got my board back and a few hours later I think I have everything soldered into the right places ;)
Please mind the flux:
[ view all the pics here ]
Its a standard Class A/B amplifier that we had to make for my course EET 296. We were given the design and had to lay it out on a printed circuit board and then populate and make a working amplifier.
Here is schematic...
D'oh zZzzZzZZZzz
Can you believe it? I went to bed early just so I could wake up nice and refreshed for the 7:30 test I had this morning and I freakin over sleep. It was one of those (I’ll-just-lay-back-down-for-5-more-minutes-situations). Well I woke up at 7:37 (ack) and got dressed in about 10sec. I had to go wake jacqui up to drive me cuz the bus only drops by every 30 min. So she did, and shes wonderful...
Public Service Announcement
School Sucks.
That is all :)
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Looks like I made the right choice
Today Dmitry Jemerov , the creator of Syndirella has announced that he will not be continuing the development of the app , due mostly to the introduction of SharpReader. I’m sad that this had to happen, but I think we all win in the end ;)
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I need a weather category
36° in April. Reminds me of last april
Well March 26 now that I look at it ;)
[*Edit*]: Got one ;)
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Howling Winds
In other news I cannot sleep because I’m wired on caffeine and the wind outside is driving me crazy. Its gusting to near 30mph and making these crazy howling noises that remind me of when I was a kid. The wind used to make these noises and my older cousins would taunt me and tell me that it was a werewolf or something. I won’t even get into the time they told me a green monster lived in our...
Remember Syndirella? Meet SharpReader
I loved using Syndirella . However, Dmitry Jemerov Hasn’t updated the app in quite a while. Today I read over at The Scobelizer (who probably posts to his blog more than any human does), about a new .NET based news aggregator.
I must admit that at first I had my reservations about leaving my now trusty Syndirella , but I was a tad annoyed with some of its idiosyncrasies such as stealing...
Boost Voltage Regulator
I was bored today so I made an adjustable voltage regulator using some parts from my toolbox. It runs a 12V .18A DC fan from a 5V supply off my power supply unit.
at 10V
at 12V
It’s adjustable to well past 12V (probably around 13-14V) down to 5V. This would make a nice little fan controller circuit but it probably a little overkill since most people haver 12V to work from anyways ;) ...
omgwtflol
I put some stuff up on my cafepress account (had one sine Oct. 2000!)
My old one WTFLOL OMGWTFLOL
Dan, check these out ;) LEMURFOOTBALL
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Ah the memories
Got this back in 2000, resulted in the loss of internet access for 4 weeks while PUCC dicked me around about something that did not occur ;)
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Butter of Peanuts
(14:25:24) Jacqui (Koobit): I am having an internal conflict (14:25:29) Jacqui (Koobit): something that affects my entire life (14:25:50) Clint: … (14:25:46) Jacqui (Koobit): I tried super-crunchy peanut butter today… (14:25:51) Jacqui (Koobit): and I liked it. (14:25:54) Clint: why?? (14:25:56) Jacqui (Koobit): =-o =-o =-o =-o =-o (14:26:00) Jacqui (Koobit): it was there! (14:26:01) Clint:...
Circuit Board
Here is a bigger version
My first circuit board ;) A class A/B audio amplifier using a 741 OP-AMP _.
Depending on when I get the negative into the board-guy I should have a finished product in a week or two.
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