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I posted a little over a year ago about Murray’s controversy involving a student (Harrison Yonts) and a drunk driving hit and run that killed one of my college friend’s mother.
The trial is going on now, and it’s being handled pretty well by the MSU [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Harrison Yonts Trial Updates
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on January 31, 2007 | 24 Comments »
More about the unnamed Killer App
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ajax, development, Geek, ldap, mysql, php on January 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Alright, since Mr. “I’m Published” Sanders asked…
One of the core features of the app is LDAP authentication. It’s not that hard to do in PHP, but instead of maintaining a robust set of read/write/edit/delete permissions I’m letting LDAP take over. We have a well maintained user directory and I fully intend to utilize it.
The app [...]
Help Name my Killer App
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on January 30, 2007 | 13 Comments »
For the past month or so I’ve been developing an application at work that’s sort of a wiki/CMS hybrid.
I want my users to quickly be able to edit parts of their respective websites. We have a few hundred employees and a slightly intimidating web presence for one person uphold.
Nine Domains
15 Departments – each wanting [...]
Awesome Firefox Extensions
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on January 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Most of these are web development releated, but some are useful to everyone.
MeasureIt – Great for finding the width of anything on a website (in pixels)
ColorZilla – Very useful for getting the RGB (or Hex Color Code) of any item on a website. Becomes even more useful when you can enable the dropper with [...]
17 hours later…
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I ended up sleeping from 2pm on Sunday until 7:15 am on Monday.
PROs:
I slept
I’m pretty awake for a Monday
I really needed the sleep. Hard.
CONs:
I didn’t go out with my sister
I missed another episode of ROME [thank god for DVR!]
I didn’t go grocery shopping
I didn’t clean or do any laundry
A few other things I’ve been up [...]
What’s that Sample? Berlioz in Hip Hop
Posted in Personal, tagged Music, Personal on January 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Nike used a song called “The Second Coming” in a commercial introducing their Air Force 25. “The Second Coming” samples from Hector Berlioz most famous piece Symphonie Fantastique. Following the footsteps of Ludacris with Mozart and Dvorak (Coming 2 America) and tons others using Orff’s Carmina Burana, I think this may [...]
Some Standards Context
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal, Web Standards on January 25, 2007 | Comments Off
It’s no secret that logistics are what drives the global economy. By logistics, I mean goods traveling from Point A to Point B cheaply and quickly.
The first shipping container that went from a truck, to a ship, and back to a train/truck at the destination port was in 1956.
This spawned a huge industry. There were [...]
iPhone? iMight
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on January 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’m already a Cingular/ATT customer now. I’m okay with the iPhone forcing that.
What I’m not okay with is the total cost of the iPhone. $1936 for the first year? WHAT!? Let’s investigate!
I’m currently dropping about $756 a year on my phone (including fees/tax). Let’s see… I could buy a really nice iPod for $249. I [...]
point(x,y) versus point(lat, long) or What I Learned Today
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, gis, Personal on January 25, 2007 | Comments Off
At work I’m starting to experiment with some really cool GIS and starting to hook their data into useful applications. Hopefully I’ll get them out the door soon so I can show them off publicly.
Anyway, the lesson learned today is that points in GIS are not exactly the same as a point in [...]
