al's Thoughts: Archive

This path UX is pretty excellent.

Dec 15th

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Dec 2nd

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Tascam debuts iM2 stereo condesor mic for iPhone →

Nov 26th

Sep 5th

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Remiel: Modal logic axioms in the form of... →

remiel: Generally accepted modal logic axioms: It’s necessary I hate cats if and only if it isn’t possible I don’t hate cats. It’s possible I hate cats if and only if it isn’t necessary I don’t hate cats. It’s necessary that I hate cats and cats suck if and only if it’s necessary I hate cats …

Sep 5th

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Kami-Sama no Memo-Chou

Kami-sama no Memo-Chou is the most interesting of the Japan summer season thus far. Not that I have watched everything by any stretch of the imagination. I especially like Alice, the NEET detective. Which I am still unsure how a NEET detective differs from a regular detective, even after the explanation in Ep1. Unless a NEET detective is a hacker, in which case, I don’t know why they...

Aug 12th

Aug 8th

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“Well then I’m heading out. Have a splendid evening and I hope you survive...”

– My Intern. Perhaps I was a little overdramatic in describing my hunger?

Aug 3rd

Return

I am going to be returning to my blog. Now this tumblog is more of a repo for personal rants and raves, editorials about things that interest me, and an opportunity to talk extensively about things which I know very little about. My other, more formal blog, is for technical and security information. You can find that about here. I would say that I am generally well informed about those topic....

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Dec 11th

Final Exam Review

Open Book/ Open Note - no electronic devices! Be very clear about what specific answers you are giving. No more than a dozen lines of code at a time. Some questions will be specific on the amount of code you can write. No multiple choice or true false. There will be lots of looking at code and saying what is wrong with it. Do the exit survey!! Topics C Libs C System Calls Structures PERL ...

Dec 8th

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Nov 20th

The Humble Pencil, The Mighty Computer

viafrank: Creative people tend to romanticize their tools. We place them on pedestals as the conduits for our ideas and the enablers of our craft. Contrastingly, though, I think all creatives believe that a good tool does not make a good designer, and a good designer does not need top-of-the-line special tools. In fact, I’d say all one usually needs is a pencil and a sheet of paper. With that,...

Nov 19th

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“If you think about it, isn’t Firefly essentially confederate sci-fi?”

– MY BRAIN IS MADE OF THINGS MADE OF GOLD: (via nerdcast)

Nov 8th

Nov 3rd

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A Familiar Feeling

I booted up my Windows 7 VM today to get some work done, and I ran into an old familiar feeling: what the heck is Windows doing? I once used Windows on a daily basis, and I wondered this every time Windows booted up, when it was so slow, practically unusable. I do not run lots of tray start-on-startup applications. Never have. I certainly don’t have anything like that on my occasionally used...

Nov 3rd

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My iPad

I always have my iPad with me or very close to me. You can ask my wife. It is almost a sickness really. Why? I think that my reason speaks to the allure of the iPad. I am always using it. All the time. Read news? Check. Write a blog post? Check. Look at funny pictures of llamas on the interwebs? Check. Reply to the latest email from my co-worker? Check. Show a client a mockup of my latest...

Oct 29th

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Oct 28th

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Delight in App Upgrades

I take a look this morning at my App Store upgrades, and imagine my delight when I find that Textastic has its upgrade now available with these lines in the update notes ‘full screen’ and ‘Text Expander support’. I knew this was coming down the pipe, but how happy I was to see it today. Also today Limechat had a nice little upgrade with this line in the notes...

Oct 28th

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On Google Play

I read an interesting article by Seth Godin on deliberately uninformed people. You can read it here. It was thought provoking. The very next item was an animated GIF of a monkey riding a goat. No kidding. This is the Internet. If you don’t know what Google Play is, you can try it here.

Oct 27th

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Ridiculous Distributed School Systems

This is a breakdown of all the sites I need to keep track of for my school classes. These are just the sites that have important information on them! Moodle, for 2 of my CSCI courses Blackboard, for 1 of my CSCI courses Blackboard, for my BCIS course My BCIS course website My Database Management course website Sakai, my project collaboration website for Database Management My DB Management...

Oct 18th

“People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be...”

– Don Draper (via whereisthecoool)

Oct 13th

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Oct 5th

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The Oatmeal on Design Feedback →

Sep 28th

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Sep 26th

nerdcast: iPad OS 4.2 and Your Face. →

nerdcast: Yesterday was a good day. Who wouldn’t want to stream Pandora while in the bathroom reading the first issue of I Rule the Night? I was, uh, brushing my teeth. The iPad OS 4.2 beta is to the iPad as brakes are to cars. Sure, you can make due without it, but it just wouldn’t be the same. And… It is like he took the words out of my mouth. All of them.

Sep 16th

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Sep 16th

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Sep 13th

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“Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the...”

– Scott Adams: Phone (via marco)

Sep 9th

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“Mr Watanabe has calculated that the optimum time to buy an airline ticket is...”

– An economist calculates that buying your tickets too far in advance is a very bad thing to do. (via theeconomist)

Sep 1st

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Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September... →

nerdcast: Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com. Holy...

Sep 1st

I Love Her

Me: Eh, I am getting tired, I think I will go to bed...
Wife: Oh, cmon, I am just about to level!
Me: Well, ok, I guess I can keep playing
Wife: I am almost there, just a little bit longer
Me: (In my head) what have I done?

Aug 30th