I started working a summer internship position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in mid March. The university just purchased a Google Search Appliance and my job is the rollout of the appliance. Right now the university’s search is running on a Google Mini, which is quickly being outgrown. So, we’re developing a web service to [...]
At the end of the spring semester last year, I wrote about my ‘Minimal Hipster PDA’ technique that I planned to use for the following summer session and fall classes. I mentioned that my highfalutin’ task management systems, while usually fairly well thought out, generally get abandoned almost immediately. I hoped my Minimal Hipster PDA [...]
I’m using TwitterLibPHP on my band’s website to display the five most recent tweets from the band Twitter account in the page header. I’m also using the JQuery Cycle plug-in to rotate the tweets randomly. This is all well and good. I wanted to wrap any links in tweets pulled from the Twitter feed with [...]
I don’t want to step on the toes of the (excellent) Avoid This Job blog, but I saw this ad in my college’s newspaper, The Royal Purple, and thought it seemed ripe for an Avoid This Job style takedown. First of all, consider the ad’s target market. It’s in a college paper, so it is [...]
I re-watched The Last Waltz not too long ago, and the thing that stuck in my mind was how awesome Van Morrison is, so much more than “the Brown Eyed Girl guy,” which is how most people know him. Anyway, I’ve been listening to his records a bunch lately, and I got the bug to [...]