Very few pop-ups/pop-unders make it past Camino, my web browser on OS X. The New York Times, and The Washington Post, are two sites who regularly get one pop-up through my filters. And it’s pop-ups to subscribe to The Economist. The irony is not lost on me: the only intrusive advertising I regularly see on […]
Well, sorry about that. Life suddenly finds a fifth gear, and all the things that were taped to the outside of the car suddenly come detached and are found later on the side of the road. Like this blog. I’ve tried, in fits and starts, to accomplish two things with this blog: Write something meaningful. Write something often. […]
From rentzsch.com: Programmers Dont Like to Code: Programmers don’t like coding, they like problem solving. As a Computer Science major, I deal with this all the time. People ask about CS, about what we do, and it’s hard to answer. I think this gives me a good angle: “We solve problems, and we use computers […]
Both the PS3 and the Wii have been exceedingly difficult to purchase this holiday season. Sales of both seasons have been, as far as I can tell, entirely supply driven. Supply driven situations are interesting and typically rare for goods in the economy. Typically, these goods are new to the market, and the producing firms […]
My Wii was flashing when I woke up, like other people’s. Nintendo sent us an email about a system update to install the “Forecast Channel”. After running a short update over the wireless network here, I was up and running. I have one gripe, for their data provider: Your list of Virginia cities is as […]
Every year, the fall semester does this. It drags on, and flies by. From August to November, it never ends. Tests after quizzes after homework pile on, and there’s no end in sight. We get a brief reprieve from the stress for Thanksgiving. It’s a welcome week of rest, food, and relaxation in an otherwise […]
There’s stories all over the internet talking about accidents with the Wii remote. There’s a series of problems coming together that resulted in this. People don’t know what a gaming grip is. Strangle that remote, people. When you get ambushed by zombies, act scared. Hold the remote like you’d hold a .45. Nintendo put a remote […]
“It’s a barbarian’s game, played by gentlemen.” I went out to a rugby practice today. The VT team is putting together a winter 7s squad for a few tournaments over break. It felt great to get back out onto the pitch and take a few hits. It’s incredible how quickly the rules, the technique, all of […]
Somehow, the past is easy. You can look back, see all the things that went wrong, the missteps, the motives behind it. You lose something when you try to analyze what was. If you tear it apart, trying to get at the meat of what made it so great, you find that it was just […]
After over a year and a half of trusty and loyal service, the Toshiba 30 GB 4200 rpm hard drive was mortally wounded earlier this week. An unknown disease struck it in its prime, and without warning, it was on its way to the grave. I’ve run backups religiously, every night, for the past year. Every […]
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