March 2004
Ocular Confessions
I don’t think I mentioned this little detail about my trip to Florida, but my glasses broke while we were there. Luckily we were able to patch them together with some super glue and every thing’s been great since then. Well, that is, if you look past the fact that my glasses look like they just got trampled by elephants and I tried to dunk them in a vat of glue to put them back together!
I...
iBook leaves tomorrow
The broken iBook will be making its trek to be repaired in Tennessee tomorrow. Lets hope it goes fast!
P.S. Phaedo.cx will be around for another year ;)
More Robot Pics
Its coming along, its almost AlliiIIIiiIvE!
The iBook has broken again
Last night the hard drive in my iBook started sounding like it was making repetitive accesses (that’s never a good sign). Hearing a hard drive make the same noise pattern over and over has been drilled into my head since the DOS 3.3 days as a sign that you should begin freaking out and throwing things. Apps started “Not Responding” so I decided that the most prudent thing to do at the time...
Score another point for water on Mars
A detailed analysis of rocks in the shallow crater where the rover has been studying the Red Planet’s geology indicates the formations were shaped by gently flowing salt water, indicating the area was probably once the coastline of an ocean, scientists said.
“We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars,” said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in...
William Hung's first CD
Well it will probably be his last CD. Anyways the album is now available on the iTunes Music Store.
I bought it :)
TypeKey is cool (and will probably work)
I had some of the same reservations about TypeKey that a lot of other ‘in-the-know’ webloggers had.
Don’t know what TypeKey is? Well its Six Apart’s system for eliminating comment spam on site’s like mine that use MovableType without resorting to banning a million IP’s or using complicated and cumbersome blacklists. Read more about it
also
Six Apart posts an in-depth TypeKey...
Nuff 'Said
Oops forgot the link: Link
6 weeks until my life begins
Senioritis is setting in. The “that’s-good-enough”’s have begun ;)
Programming Link Dump
Python Tutorial Python Cookbook Serial Communication in .NET (hint, it sucks. Not the class, serial communication in .NET) Reference: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 Conforming Templates
Python Knowledge Base Python Library Reference The Whole Python FAQ Daily Python Python Owns Us (errr…ok :))
Update on 3/22/2004: Getting started with Ruby
I'm learning Python. Could this be the snake in...
I finally took the initiative and I’m currently reading through Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Python text and I’m making some good headway into the capabilities of the language. I’m really digging the cool built-in list methods for selecting parts of lists and searching for information in a list. There are so many cool things I’ve learned about Python today that I couldn’t really go over them...
I think I'm going mad
After a dream about getting bit by a snake with no teeth, I awoke this morning thinking about things I had forgotten to fix on one of our client’s sites last night. That’s a great way to wake up :P
Full set of Disney World pics
Here they are
My Third Interview
Well I made it down to Cincinnati on Friday with Will and Jacqui. I got there about 15 minutes early and hung out in the break room until the manager was available.
We talked a little bit about what I was going to do which was meet the three RF engineers that currently work the Cincinnati area. I met with all three guys for about 20 or 30 minutes each and learned a lot about the job, the...
Back From Vacation, Leaving Again
Well I’m back from our trip to Disney World. We had a load of fun and enjoyed every minute. I almost wished I could live in Disney World forever (both creepy and understandable at the same time eh?).
I spent the night in my own bed and now I’m leaving for Cincinnati very soon for a very pivotal day in my live (i think). I think that today I might be told whether or not I am getting a job at...
Its time for Spring Break
Classes for this week are over and I’m done with them for a whole week :) I’m heading to Disney World in a few days and me and Jacqui are going to spend about 4 days there in the warm weather and doing fun stuff. I can’t wait :)
In other news, one of Jacqui’s Chinchillas had started acting strange in the past two days. Puffy cheeks, drooling, and not accepting food. Jacqui, Will, and I...
Spring Break
Only 4 days remaining until Disney World _
I’m going to Chicago, then Florida, then Chicago, then Indiana, then Ohio and back to Indiana in the span of about 7 days ;) I am very excited but I’m also very apprehensive about everything that’s due once we get back from break. They’re going to start tightening the screws on us very soon :O
Our Robot!
I posted some more recent pics of the robot, currently he’s learning how to drive straight. Check out the pictures here
Here’s a TEASER:
This domain will expire in less than a month
…and I don’t know what I’m going to do :P I certainly don’t have the money right now to renew the domain with CX at $40 a year (DAMN YOU TINY PACIFIC ISLAND). I suppose there’s something I could do with clintology.com which is a different domain name on a different server, but I’d be losing out on at least one thing, unless both clintology.com and phaedo.cx were to point to the same...
Audioscrobbler iTunes Plugin Updated
iScrobbler 0.6.3 fixes that annoying crash-on-startup bug that some users were seeing. Update now!
What else can I say? Download!
Practical
The caption on my practical I got back today said:
96.5 v-good
:)
Current Projects
Here’s a little run down of everything that I’m doing currently, feel free to ask questions if you’re interested in the comments:
ECET 359 – Digital Interfacing Project (i made up this title myself :)) — This is just a small time project where we have to interface three things. The first is the user interface and this is done in VB.net, I’m doing a lot of the UI design for this part and I...
Its been a while!
Sorry for the big lag in posting! Its been over a week but not much has been going on. I went to my interview of course and that went GREAT. I was invited down to Cincinnati to meet some of the engineers and other employees at that T-Mobile office. I am really encouraged by the response I’ve been getting from this job interview process.
I would say I’m about 90% I will get offered the...