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Abomination or AWESOME?
I love my Zune. It’s small, and great at what it does: play music. With my Zune Pass music subscription, I can slurp up just about any song from the Zune Marketplace for a flat rate of $15 a month....
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Excellent! Bing really is a decision engine.
This screenshot is pretty self-explanatory. I’m not really a fan of jumping on the “mock Microsoft” bandwagon, but this is priceless. I could say something intelligent-sounding about non-Google search...
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Roomie gets some CSS schooling
This week I have been furiously re-writing a few key elements of the Roomie website. Specifically, I scrapped the old device button controls, which you can see here. They were ok, but they were very...
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Sneaky Chrome updates again
Chrome is a true Google product. Google, whose point of view is the Internet and constantly-updating content, updates Chrome silently. Restarting Chrome very well might yield new features, which is...
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Pretty Picture: Torg Bridge
I took this picture on August 27, 2010 while waiting for a friend outside Squires Student Center. You can see Torgerson Bridge in the distance.
View ArticleAnother novel (and silly) use for Roomie
I’ve been working (rather obsessively) on Roomie for the past week. In specific, I have rewritten the XML-based protocol that allows the desktop client to communicate with the web service. (Say “hi”...
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OkCupid wut?
Per a friend’s prodding, I recently got on free dating site OkCupid. Even though I am already seeing someone, it’s still fun to answer the questions and find my real-life friends. The site is full of...
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Ouch! Googling for Bing…
Well, I bagged on Bing when it’s search suggestion was “how do I get rid of bing”, so I suppose it’s only proper to show this little gem: So Bing is search, huh Google? Sigh… I’m a jerk.
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Use C#’s regular expression library to Convert TimeSpan and DateTime to and...
Well that title is a mouthful. Long story short, as an exercise in regular expressions I wrote a utility class to convert strings to TimeSpans and DateTimes in C#. This made great usage of named...
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The Tragedy of Linked Lists
Inspired by a comic of the same name that I saw in passing.
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Your inspiration for today.
Growing up, I was taught—or inferred—that happiness was a transitory, not-really-real emotion. As in, we could all do much better to be content with what we have. Who is to say what lot you were given...
View ArticleDavid’s Dictionary for the Internet Age: Relike
Relike (verb) To unlike and again like a post previously-liked post, e.g., picture, text, or video, on a social networking site in order to produce a notification for the target, e.g., content owner or...
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Notebook Excerpts: Ponderings
Over the summer I purchased a couple pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks to carry with me. One of my motivations was the desire to emulate other smart people who carry notebooks. Another was that if I...
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Hey! Roomie is still here.
Woooh! I have not blogged about Roomie in a looong time! Just like I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s desktop client component and re-wrote it, I came to a dead-end with Roomie’s web component. I...
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More on Roomie’s website rewrite
As stated in my previous post about Roomie, I’ve been using a lot of brain juice to rewrite Roomie’s website. I wrote the original website in ASP.NET with Web Forms, which was pretty standard for the...
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Happy days! The new Roomie website is usable!
Available at http://roomiebot.com, the new Roomie website works! I use the website to turn lights and things on and off from my desktop computer, laptop, smartphone, and and old still-has-a-browser...
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Commence asynchronous laughter
I’ve been working on Roomie all day, fixing up things here and there. Here’s another silly demo. It uses the WebHook.SendScript and Computer.Speak commands to simulate a conversation between my laptop...
View ArticleMy life from zero to now
All things considered, I’ve had a pretty easy life. Both of my parents were in the military when I was born, but I’ve moved around very little. I was born in Virginia Beach, but I moved to Northern...
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Roomie looks like this now!
I haven’t posted about Roomie in a long time, but I sure have been improving it! I’ve polished Roomie’s web interface, added support for the Aeon Labs Z-Stick, and a bunch of stuff that you can read...
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I restyled my blog!
As part of a Rackspace hackathon, I decided to restyle my (this) blog. I last customized it probably when I was 18. Actually, I made the background image while in a limo for high school prom. (what a...
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