A couple of days ago, while eating at Zaxby’s with my roommates (a favorite dining location), conversation touched briefly the topic of “pirate radio.” The last time I discussed such things was in a series of conversations with Chappie last summer. We contrived a concept for a distributed radio transmission network using small, distributable, network connected [...]

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Over the past few days, I’ve been enjoying my new iPhone 3G immensely. There are a few annoyances, such as buggy software, a little DRM issue I had with the app store, and various other things. However, one issue that was really bothering me was the inability to sync my iPhone calendar with my Google [...]

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So, yes, I just recently joined the bandwagon and enabled sms messages on my cell phone. No, I’m not “slow” or “behind the times.” My phone was, until recently, attached to my parents’ family plan - and they blocked all messages instead of paying the extra $30/month. Since I now have my own steady income, I have spun my number off to my own plan and enabled text messages in the process. Hurray for independence (and the costs of such freedom).

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I may not be able to explain how cool this is, but I'm going to try.
Right now I'm working on a replacement for the nasty VBScript I posted a while back that updates the software installed on the computers at work. Sure, the script did it's job but it wasn't pretty to look at and [...]

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A few days back, I mentioned that I wanted to query my Facebook social graph in order to pull out a list of my friends' websites. Why? To put the in my blog roll. Anyway, I was doing a little light reading today and came across some interesting posts centering around a topic I've read [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to direct your attention to the new link in the right side bar entitled "Programs and Scripts." This page will contain handy bits of code developed by myself (or any of my esteemed colleagues) and presented here for your programming gratification!
The inaugural bit of code available here is [...]

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But I can't. Let me explain.
Facebook offers a developer API that allows programmers to use the data stored by Facebook. One of the neat features is called "Facebook Query Language," and allows you to execute queries on the data provided by Facebook, as if it were a giant database (oh, wait, it is). Earlier this [...]

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This has been a busy but great week. I'll be back with more detail on some of these events, but I gave a presentation last night (which went really well, and the video and other information will be online soon), helped a friend assemble a new computer today, I've been in the gym three days [...]

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