Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Numerology
In our organization of 178 people, the 3 people that make up our programming team are all right next to each other, alphabetically. That seems quite odd, statistically speaking.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Cold Soda
I was smart and brought in some 6 packs of soda so I didn’t have to hit the vending machines. But I’m dumb because I almost never have one cold when I want it. I need a robot that can go from my cubicle to the fridge, check if there’s one in there, and put [...]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Annoying computer things
It takes me 8 extra clicks if I want to print something duplex. I could have it set to duplex by default, then it would take me 8 extra clicks to print something single sided. What computer things annoy you?
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
One Last Podcast
I almost forgot to mention Battlestar Galactica, the one podcast I go out of my way to listen to every week, when there’s a new one. It’s basically an audio commentary track of the most recent episode, by produce Ronald D. Moore. It’s completely engaging for any fan of the show.
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Droppin’ the Knowledge
I forgot to add these tidbits to my podcast post, but forgot. These are some things that stuck with me today. From Today’s Podcast: Serendipity is one of the 10 words in the english language that are the hardest to translate. From an interesting NPR piece on aphorisms was this great one: “Trust in God, [...]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
More with the geek stuff
More of the geek stuff I’ve been getting in to, or by now am well in to, is podcasting. Since it was rolled into iTunes a few months ago it’s not just “geek stuff” anymore, but it certainly leans that way. Podcast is a catchy term but suffers a little bit from the (probably purposeful) [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Ah Crap
I was finally going to get into the game. After using all the great new tools available, I was going to contribute one of my own. I was going to write a utility that analyzed XMP info in a photo and added them as Flickr tags. But Flickr already does it! Damn Flickr and its [...]