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Sep 04, 2003
Personal Life

Michelle Lai blinded me with science

A line from my stats page: 62: 6.72%: dolby.com life is rather boring at the moment. I discovered today that my productivity goes through the roof when I’m not actually at work. Around 3 yesterday afternoon I attached a “working from home” pos...

Aug 27, 2003
Personal Life

You can take your 141.3 credits and…

For some reason I just decided to figure out what I took for my B.S. in Computer Science. Here’s the full list: African-Amer Lit, Intro To Psychology, Government & Politics in a Changing World, Intro to Comp. Sci: Programming In C, Dynamic Earth...

Aug 26, 2003
Personal Life

And that' that

I am definitely, completely, officially done with school forever. I just finished my final for the rhetoric class I was taking. I didn’t need to take the class, but I needed financial aid for the summer, and it looked (and proved to be) really int...

Aug 26, 2003
iRooster

food for thought

Why I develop software in my free time: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly...

Aug 25, 2003
iRooster

wake from sleep, redux.

A few quick things to toss out there. iRooster 2.0 will, without a doubt, be Panther-only. I have zero clue what the timeframe is for that right now. For the time being, I think I have to use the kludgy PMU property setter interface (blergh). From...

Aug 23, 2003
iRooster

Wake from Sleep

Well, it looks like Wake from Sleep is finally working properly, at least under most best-to-good-case scenarios. I am not entirely sure how much abuse it can take quite yet, so I need to keep plugging away at that. On the bright side of things, ...

Aug 22, 2003
Miscellaneous

Because I’m feeling bored

TGIF, and here are the Best Hexadecimal Values Ever: 0xdeadbeef 0xbeefcafe Soooo tired, must keep eyes open at work for another 40 minutes.

Aug 21, 2003
iRooster

:-)

I am officially a professional shareware developer now. I had my first few sales today. This is really cool. :-)

Aug 21, 2003
Miscellaneous

Science Friday… Err, Thursday

Jim Holt: “I know people who still regard atoms as theoretical fictions. I have friends who claim to doubt the reality of the past, of the future, of other minds. I have heard of academics—though I cannot believe they actually exist—who think that...

Aug 20, 2003
Zoon Politikon

Why Geoff Hates Dubya

Geoff: “When I look at George W. Bush, I don’t see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist.”