August 2003
Who is THAT?
Look what came in the mail today. THE SUITS SILLY.
Rhino
Back from Wichita!
Me and Jacqui had a great time in Wichita. We didn’t get to see everyone we wanted to but we only had four days to tour Wichita. On our first night back we ate dinner at my Grandma’s house and basically hung out and got to know everyone.
The next day was my Aunt’s birthday and we had her birthday party along with cake. Lots of pictures are available on Jacqui’s purdue webspace.
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Yellowcard, Autopilot Off, Movies and More
As I said in a previous post, me and Jacqui trekked on down to the Metro last night to enjoy some awesome bands. It took us about 1:30 to get there due to some horrible traffic but we made it at the end of the 2nd opener (either Over it or Don’t Look Down).
We saw a band called Split Habit which was really good and Jacqui enjoyed their stuff. She especially liked the crazy man who played...
You heard right
Me and Jacqui are going to The Metro tonight to primarily see Yellowcard. however, Autopilot Off will also be there.
In addition to these two fine groups, ‘Don’t look down’ and ‘Over it’ will be there so I’ll be checking them out.
If you remember, I just bought Yellowcard’s new album “Ocean Avenue” and its pretty awesome.
3.0, finally ;)
I’ve been slowly working very hard to pull my cumulative GPA up to a 3.0 since my horrible first semester. This summer I took two 3 credit classes and got A’s in each and now my CGPA is exactly 3.01, actualy its more like 3.000096 or something but I think Purdue rounds up.
Software Writeup: FTPeel 1.0
Freshly Squeezed Software released version 1.0 of their FTP client, FTPeel, this past week. This release was the culmination of feedback, bug reports, and feature requests supplied by public beta testers of three public beta releases of the software.
I’ve been hyping the release of this software since the first beta because I have been searching for the perfect OS X FTP client for quite a...
Summer Semester
I’m a little late at posting this but my Summer semester officially ended this past Tuesday. My two classes COM250 (A), POL 141 (?) went really well and I’m very happy to have learned some stuff other than electronics.
I am pretty sure I am going to get an A in political science, partly because I did well on the previous exams, I think my final paper kicked ass, I participated a lot in class,...
Chintaro, Master of Chinchillas
FTPeel 1.0 Final is Out!
Erik has posted that FTPeel 1.0 is available for download or purchase!
At $20 its a steal and magicmirror is really impressing me. I’ll be writing a review soon cuz I like it so much. It really strikes me as a REAL cocoa FTP client.
Stuff about this 1.0 release:
(quote)# Written with Cocoa for a smooth, rich, fully-featured Mac OS X experience.
MagicMirror saves you time and...
More on Nuclear Weapons
Some relevant links:
Hiroshima Mayor criticises Bush on nuclear issue; US nuke Policy Threatens World Peace
House panel cuts Bush’s nuclear weapons research funds
White House Renews Concerns Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
On a side note, can’t we get someone else in the Whitehouse that can actually pronounce nuclear let alone be intellectually capable of understanding the issue?
August 6, 1945
This kind of stuff is the stuff I hope people never forget. The devastation and suffering that we can cause. I only hope everyone learned something from it.
Now for my geeky purchases
In the past week I’ve bought a Star Trek movie and another season of Deep Space Nine:
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home
This movie was simply too rediculous to not purchase. I saw this two DVD set at Wal*Mart and had to have it. If you haven’t seen this movie it stars the cast of the original series (Kirk, Spock, etc) and they go back in time in a Klingon warbird to steal a humpback whale...
I bought some stuff today
Three CD’s of cool bands and Season four of DS9.
Music
Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Buy Band
This group is really awesome. I saw them perform live once as an opener alongside Allister and they are really a cool band to see live. The main thing that differentiates this group from others is that one member is a mean violinist and the band integrates his instrument very well into the rest...
Atom 0.2 Spec, Mark updates his templates
Mark Pilgram has updated all of his Atom resources to be up to the 0.2 spec which is now out.
Click over to his site if you wanna read links about minimal/maximal Atom feeds, multipart/alternative feeds, along with MoveableType templates for your main blog and comment feeds.
I updated the Atom feed on this and my Indianablogs to the 0.2spec. I suppose when I get some time I’ll work on...
Speaking of PHP voodoo
My original mapping code over at Indianablogs was taking anywhere from 1.5 seconds to 3 seconds to go from City Name to a completely dynamic map with a tiny dot on it. This was really not sitting well with me because my profiling of the script showed that 99.8% of the time was being consumed by retrieving some data from the web and scraping it for geographical coordinates. I also implemented...
Check out my cool PHP mapping voodoo
over at Indianablogs
It translates a City name in indiana to geo-coords and plots its location on a map. Now that I’ve got the core methods working, its a trivial pursuit to add in all those cool features you see on dynamic maps ;)
Nineteen Pages of PHP5 In-Depthness
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1192
Looks tasty!
Information Overload
Yes, you’re seeing right. We found THREE televisions in the trash this weekend. No one else wanted/needed them so I go em. We found these because this weekend is “move-out” weekend for people who aren’t renewing their leases.
Trillan 2.0 Beta is out
Windows users can snag up the quintessential multi-protocol instant messaging app. Oh, only if you’re a pro member ;)
Check out Trillian 2.0 Sneak Preview
Firebird 0.7 Features
I’m sure everyone has downloaded Firebird 0.6.1 but it seems that its developers are looking to create some cool features for 0.7.
Ben Goodger is talking about web panels. Basically they are bookmarks that load in a special ‘sidebar’ (wink wink). His example is a moveable type webpanel. Check it out on his site, its really neato.
Ben also has some older notes on web panels
I...
You know what would be really freaking cool?
I was just sitting here thinking about how difficult it is for people to design CSS styles for sites they don’t control. You can write it and then use a hack or specify it in the prefs of some browsers but that is kinda tedious.
What I think would be awesome is if you could drop a CSS file on to an open website and the browser would apply those styles to the layout. Wouldn’t that be easy,...
What's that?
That’s the face of a man who just finished his spectacular Switzerland paper. My scripts have already uploaded the full Word DOC and PDF of the document if you wanna read it ;)
Just don’t tell me if you find a spelling error, I’ll cry cuz I already printed it :D Actually, do tell me, I can re-print it at work :P