October 2009
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After an unfortunate series of events, my primary PC is dead. It was the first custom computer I ever put together. That was 5-and-a-half years ago. Over the years I’ve upgraded almost everything in it; some things more than once. It’s been a great learning oppertunity.
I keep external backups of everything that’s of any real importance, but I lost at least one 150g drive...
September 2009
10 posts
Entrepreneur magazine names MSU among top 10... →
Eight weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed this.
Edit- You could also read this as: When your state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, a lot of people start calling themselves self-employed entrepreneurs.
The Space Between
Grape fruit juice and grapefruit juice and two drastically different things. Lesson learned.
Whenever a job listing says, “High school diploma required,” I always wonder exactly what skills they think they’re guaranteeing with that disclaimer.
Project: reNOTEcontrol →
This was a project I did with Rob McFadden over this summer. We got it to the point that it more or less works, but haven’t taken much past that.
From the site:
reNOTEcontrol is a bookmarklet application that allows you to highlight any text on a page and then store that text in a “notebook” with a single click. There is nothing to download, nothing to install and registration takes less...
Hungry For A Month →
Over the past two months I’ve been collecting many of my projects into one place for easy browsing. It’s not quite ready to go, but I’m going to post a few of them here as well.
This is from when I ate for $1/day back in November of 2006. I’m probably not the first person to do something like it (although nobody’s ever pointed out an earlier version of it), but I do...
Starting the cycle over
I think that it’s important to know what’s going on in the world and so when I started working from home I got in the habit of turning on CNN Headline News in the morning at just letting it go in the background while I went about my business.
It was great for awhile. I listened to political commentary from experts, watched the stock market generally tumble about, and got very...