Archive for January, 2008
Posted in January 18th, 2008
So Wednesday I downloading Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End from the iTunes Store as my first digital rental. It took a little less than four hours to download the movie (which was most likely my Internet connection) which isn’t bad because it is a three hour movie so it almost downloaded in real […]
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Posted in January 17th, 2008
I just started playing Desktop Tower Defense (link) and I have to say it is one really fun game. The idea is that there are these little creatures trying to make it from one side of your board to the other. You have to create a maze with these towers that shoot at […]
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Posted in January 16th, 2008
So yesterday Apple started renting movies through the iTunes Store and I could be happier. Apple will allow you 30 days to start watching the movie and then after you have started the movie you have 24 hours to finish it. After the rental period is over the movie is automatically deleted from your computer. […]
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Posted in January 15th, 2008
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A short interview with Hendrik Schatz. He runs the research group that I work with (Jina).
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Posted in January 15th, 2008
Yesterday for the first time EVER my desktop has nothing on it except for the recycle bin! I read a blog post over a Coding Horror about not using your desktop as a destination (link) and he mentioned having a “sea of icon” which was a good explanation of my desktop. I started thinking about […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2008
Just a day late. I really need to find different things to take pictures of.
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Posted in January 13th, 2008
I had a slow day reading Bio and playing Mass Effect (literally awesome by the way) on my 360. I will write a long post tomorrow.
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Posted in January 12th, 2008
I just got my free credit report from Experian and it is the coolest thing ever. They show you all your open accounts, what you own on them, and the status of them. It also gives you your credit report which has been really useful. I would highly recommend doing it if have credit cards. […]
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Posted in January 11th, 2008
So last night just before I went to bed I saw a posting on Slashdot about how Sun plans on getting rid of it’s in-house data centers by using Software as a Service (SaaS) instead (link). One of the reasons that they gave for doing this is to reduce their energy usage and that […]
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Posted in January 10th, 2008
I’m starting to get sick of all the scams associated with college text books. I knew about the different versions with small changes between them, the huge prices, and the custom versions of the books that can only be used at one or two colleges but yesterday I ran into a new one. I purchased […]
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