As I mentioned a while back, this summer I worked at IBM writing JavaScript for an internship program called “Extreme Blue“. For those who are not familiar, here is a bit of background on the program:
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The Extreme Blue Experience
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Fibbass 2010
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Here is the result of this semester’s work on my Fibonacci composition:
If you are interested in my process, please feel free to read my final report below, or email me.
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My Ownage of iPower
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
I have been looking forward to closing my iPower account for some time, and have thought many times about calling my credit card company and preemptively blocking iPower from charging the card, even though I had canceled my account on the iPower site. Just as I suspected, they charged my card for their “domain privacy” charge. Here is the chat I just had with their support person. read more…
LaCie 4big Quadra Problems
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Read the original post about my RAID configuration here
After using the drive in the above configuration for a few months, there are some problems I’ve noticed with it.
Vannevar Bush – "As We May Think"
Monday, February 1st, 2010
I recently was assigned an article in Interface Design class called “As We May Think” written by Vannevar Bush in 1945. This is an amazingly insightful article for the time it was written, as he is on more than one instance discussing the concept of computers without actually saying the word “computer”. To be honest, I thought it was a modern technology article until he started talking about things like film.
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New RAID Setup, eSATA ExpressCard/34 on Snow Leopard
Friday, January 15th, 2010
So I treated myself to a nice present this Christmas. Yes, I got it on sale because it has a few dents in the front.
The LaCie 4big Quadra RAID enclosure is pretty tight. I am sick of buying external hard drives every time they fail, and having a million enclosures left over, so I splurged. I have 4 – 1TB disks in a RAID5 configuration. That gives me 3TB to play with. It is very fast, and works well so far. I cannot support the multiple claims I’ve heard about it being too loud. I’ve heard the fans come on, and they aren’t that loud. Yes, if I was recording some voice over work right in front of the device it would certainly be heard on the microphone, but it is nothing to complain about. I will get a long eSATA cable and hide it behind my desk or something. The only downside to this device is that you void the warranty if you use a replacement drive that you do not purchase from LaCie. There is a 3-year warranty on the thing, so I guess I’ll play nice for 3 years. I’ll buy one of these “LaCie approved” spare drives, and hopefully not more than one will fail on me in the 3-year span, because they are about $40 overpriced. All-in-all a great device.
Steve Ballmer discussing Chrome, competition, etc.
Friday, November 20th, 2009
This guy is pretty rediculous. I like the part where he starts to discuss the “attack vectors” and how he feels strong.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/29/ballmer-microsoft-interview-chrome-windows-internetexplorer/
Convenience with Quicksilver
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
For the past few years I have been using Quicksilver for OS X, an application which has dramatically changed the way many people get things done on their Mac. Here are a few things you can do fairly easily (if you want to be as cool as me). read more…
music thoughts
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Making time for music will always be a constant battle in my life. This semester I have not had much time to [ ] at all. I don’t consider this a bad thing necessarily, I look forward to a time in my life when I come home and have nothing to do but work on music. Next semester I may have more time as well. What bothers me is all of the unfinished pieces that my band mates and I have, and how people have yet to hear them. We are slowly writing more material, however, and hopefully all of this idle time will contribute to a more well thought out product in the end.
New Website
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
As you can see, I have designed a new website. Please contact me if you see anything wrong with it, or have any suggestions. It is a work in progress, and I could use some constructive criticism. Now I have to get back to school work, which I took a day off from to finish the site.