Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

Node.js

Recently I’ve fallen in love with node.js a web server written in JavaScript.
Ok it’s not really a web server, it makes IO functions available to JavaScript code in a completely non-blocking way! What does that mean? It means it’s incredibly fast. Yeah ok, how fast is incredibly fast I hear you saying. Right now in [...]

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Sick!

I didn’t have a story last week because I was/am sick. I’ll have one up for this weekend.

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New story is late.

I didn’t have the new story up over the weekend because my MacBook isn’t working. So I spent the weekend reformatting hopping it isn’t a hardware problem, it is.
I’ll have the new story posted up sometime this week.

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Should you buy a Kindle? No.

Like many people I’ve been considering whether or not to buy an Amazon Kindle. It’s a very promising device with a large library available. But it seems Amazon has made my mind for me. They deleted copies of paid books off peoples Kindles. That is simply unacceptable.
If I buy something, no one has the right [...]

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No story this week.

I just had PRK surgery last Saturday and haven’t been able to see a computer. So there is no story this week, but next week I’ll have two stories.

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What to write about.

Next Saturday’s story is supposed to be on travesty. The idea is to take 3 characters and make them behave completely opposite than they would normally. My problem is which characters should I write about. There is no way for the reader to know it’s a travesty unless they already know the characters. Unfortunately, at [...]

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Sometimes I’m a bit schizophrenic sometimes.

Ok I’m not really schizophrenic, but it gets the idea across.
I know I missed last Saturday’s story, It’s coming along with the new story for this Saturday. Calculus has been taking up all my time so I have to squeeze writing in were ever I can (weekends mostly.)
The reason I say I’m a bit schizo [...]

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Writing and Programming

I still haven’t figured out how to cope with the urge to write and to program. I know I lean more towards the writing side, but I get ideas for programs and games that I want to build. It’s frustrating, I don’t know how to mesh the two.
Like lately I’ve had more ideas for some [...]

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WarGames: The Dead Code, Review

I just finished watching WarGames: The Dead Code on netflix instant (thanks xbox360!) and thought I’d share a few remarks about the moive.
So here we are, many years after the first WarGames movie and a new computer system is in place. This computer find terrorists on the internet. How does it identify someone as a [...]

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Welcome!

As I said on my other blogs, I’ve finnaly set things up so I can consolidate all of my blogs in one place. I tried DJango at first but after several months I still didn’t have it working properly! As much as I wanted something in python, it just wasn’t going to work. So now [...]

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