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December
2011
September
2011
Computer science, philosophy, and the web
This summer, I drove across the country with an amazing woman who told me about some philisophical issues that she has concerning Computer Science. One of our discussions was about how she felt that if she were to enter the field of Computer Science, she would rather spend her time on computational theory research, seeing as eventually we will have solved all of the problems we can with our current models of computation. Read more…
January
2011
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
I agree that the long term benefits of self reflection are often shadowed by years of instant gratification. As she mentions, this makes it difficult for young people to take a break and spend some time reflecting instead of dealing with the flow of information as it comes in. Read more…
August
2010
The Extreme Blue Experience
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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May
2010
My Music Listening History
Here is a pretty awesome graph of my music listening history (generated from last.fm scrobbler data):
It encompasses all of my listening history since October 2006, when I first started using Last.fm. If you are actually going to look at it, you may want to start from the right (most recent).
Generated courtesy of lastgraph (lastgraph.aeracode.org).
April
2010
My Ownage of iPower
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…
March
2010
LaCie 4big Quadra Problems
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.
February
2010
Vannevar Bush – "As We May Think"
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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January
2010
New RAID Setup, eSATA ExpressCard/34 on Snow Leopard
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.
November
2009
Steve Ballmer discussing Chrome, competition, etc.
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/
