Murray State University – Commencement List 2006 [pdf]
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Archive for April, 2006
Just because…
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on April 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Blogs making a Difference
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal, Weblogs on April 26, 2006 | Comments Off
Mercury News has a piece about how 2004’s EA Spouse story has actually made changes in EA’s company policy along with other companies.
I love reading stories like these. The once voiceless now have a voice that the globe can listen to through weblogs.
The Princple
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on April 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
After voicing my disdain with Corporate America to my father, I was invited me to read a book entitled The Peter Principle.
Wikipedia provides a quick overview:
In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.
Ouch.
With further elaboration:
The employee’s incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position [...]
Three Shakes
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on April 25, 2006 | Comments Off
From Everything2:
In Tom Clancy’s Sum of all Fears, a ‘shake’ is defined as a unit of time approximately 10 nanoseconds; named after the biblical passage that says that armageddon will come in “three shakes of a lamb’s tail.” Thirty nanoseconds are required for a nuclear weapon to get to critical mass.
Clancy is awesome. I was [...]
My Roundup
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on April 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Here’s my geek roundup:
Scoble posted quite a manifesto today.
It’s encouraging to see such forward thought from Scoble. I especially enjoyed his piece on “Sparkle” versus “Expression Interactive Designer”. It’s especially interesting seeing his view on publicizing raises. Why not? I’ve never really understood the big deal about not knowing how much others make. [...]
It’s Not A Framework Update
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on April 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Whew, that was exhausting. A four hour marathon of coding co-learning the prototype library’s ins and outs with my buddy Derek led to some pretty significant strides.
That was pretty exhausting. It’s been a little while since I had a geek marathon after working out and a fully day of class and work.
FINISHED FUNCTIONS: INSERT, DELETE, [...]
27 Years
Posted in Personal, tagged Music, Personal on April 19, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The new, highly anticipated TOOL album is being released in the beginning of May. It’s called 10,000 days. At first I thought, wow… I didn’t know it had been that long since they released Lateralus. Then I read the Wikpedia Entry…
As Keenan explains on commentary on aMOTION, his mother suffered a stroke that left her [...]
Identity Inventory
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on April 18, 2006 | 7 Comments »
From a security standpoint, I should have unique usernames and passwords for 40+ services. Think about all of the services you’ve used that/those good password(s) on—the last.fm, myspace, facebook, itunes, xanga, livejournal, gmail, hotmail, aim, msn, icq, yahoo im, all of the forums you may be a part of, del.icio.us, blogger… oh and if [...]
A Quick Demo
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on April 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
AJAX has a lot of buzz these days. The UI quirks it provides are simply superior than a typical app. Here it is working well with little educational presentations…
The cast…
Prototype.js – makes the javascript/AJAX super sexy and easy
Behaviour.js – makes the XHTML super sexy
The purpose:
To illustrate to end-users how basic one way encryption (hashing) works.
PS: [...]
My roommate Matt passed this link along to me. It takes a while to load, but it’s definitely worth the wait.
Wikipedia: Featured pictures visible
Some amazing photos/animations on this slice of Internet.
