Gift cards and Storage

Well, nothing is really going on. JJC ran an online survey about their website and offered a random drawing for one of two $25 dollar gift cards. I won one. Decided it was time to move past my sad 12GB 5400RPM drive, to a fancy-shmancy 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Sata drive. It’ll be nice to have [...]

The Adventures in Pascal : CIS 136 (and a laptop!)

So a part of me is hating learning to program before taking this class. It’s boring. Well, I shouldn’t say boring . I didn’t learn (Turbo) Pascal, so it does have that benefit, but the concepts are rather painful to go over after learning them already. I decided to put of actual class work to [...]

Apple, the iPod, and C programming

I like Apple. I REALLY do. They wouldn’t fix my iPod, citing accidental damage or abuse. Not too surprising, I am rather hard on my stuff. I did find a renewed interest in the homebrew mp3 player scene. Make magazine had a couple good examples (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/open_source_mp3_player_kits.html), as is the EchoMP3 Player (http://www.techdesign.be/projects/020/020.htm). I’ll probably end [...]

Pascal Class and School in general

Why is it that classes feel compelled to assign homework, en masse, when I am just starting to think I can get some time off?  I had an arse-load of Pascal homework due (8 pages of questions, typed in Courier New, 10pt, single spaced, not including the answers) and a group presentation due in English. [...]

Funny Images

I was surfing the internet and stubled onto my old site. I was happy to find my old code, and even more happy to find the following image:

Ubuntu, ARG!

Okay. Does anyone else HATE Ubuntu? I’m so frakking tired of hearing about it. Everyone talks about it. It is always on Digg.com, and it irritates the hell out of me. It’s not that perfect. Oh, “Apt-Get/Synaptic is so great.” Um..  Debian anyone? It’s based off it. I’m just tired of people always talking about [...]

Comics 0wnzrs..

http://xkcd.com/c138.html – It’s all I have to say

About Me – Creation Of A Geek

I finally got around to filling out my About Me page. Turns out I had –verbose in place

ImageCloud funtioning again

I spent a little bit of time hacking at ImageCloud after math class. The code is working again, but it’s ugly on Windows. The Strings that have the filenames do \\ on windows. I think this is because it needs to escape the slash, but it is still ugly. I knew I should have ignored [...]

Blessing in disguise?

I’ve been wondering if the hdd crash has been a blessing in disguise of sorts. Sure, it really blows that all my stuff was lost, but with early frameworks of programs still floating around the net, it was an opertunity to take that which I’ve learned since starting the applications to create better, more readable [...]