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No post tonight, so in the spirit of @mittense, here’s a kitty.

I did upgrade to WP 2.5 though, and it’s working great. More on Tuesday!

I’ve become quite a twitterholic the past few days. In fact, let’s check the stats. Yeah, I’ve been pretty much addicted the past few days. Why? Well, there’s a few things I love about Twitter:

1. Twitter is short, sweet, and easy to use.

The concept is simple: 140 characters to tell the world what you’re doing. I don’t think you can get more simple than that. No complex forms, no huge commitments, just a simple request, and your simple answer. It has a wonderful web interface, and the settings allow you completely customize your page’s background along with colors for fonts. It’s just a breeze to use and easy to look at, which is a welcome change compared to Facebook or MySpace. Continue reading…

I had a slighty crappy weekend filling mostly with playing games and working on my ray tracer. Looks like it isn’t going to well:

That should be a sphere. Not some strange cone thing. Progress is slow, but steady.  Understanding the theory is key to this, and it’s pretty damn tough.

Well, Happy Easter everyone, and I hope if you made some sort of Lenten sacrifice (I gave up fast food!) you’ve kept it. A Wendy’s spicy Baconator is calling my name, and it’s getting harder and harder to resist…

As always, I’m late to jump on the failboat, and this time I’ve decided to do some serious maintenance on my computer. I’ve had enough of having to rely on System Restore and worrying that I’ve lost all of my data, or that my computer is on the brink of death. So, I’m going to start maintaining my system more, and that’s starting with keeping my hard drive as tidy and speedy as possible. Continue reading…

I recently came across this post about a user who decided he had enough of the user-generated news community, Reddit. I’ve been a Reddit user for a quite some time now, and I’ve done my share of down voting Ron Paul stories as well submitting silly pictures that have made it onto the front page. Lately though, it’s become more than a habit to check this site. Continue reading…

Every few months I try to start up this routine, but this time I’m going to try and keep it. I’m going to post blogs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. It’s a strange schedule since most bloggers and web comics seem to update on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, but this works a little better for me with my classes this quarter. Continue reading…

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not an expert on Flash. I haven’t even made anything special in flash. Yeah, I can tween a circle and bounce it around the stage, and that’s the extent of my Flash knowledge. One thing I do know about it: if you want to drive traffic from Google searches, you’re better off not using it. Some bloggers even claim its use to be evil. Now I’m sure there’s a lot of Adobe fans are ready and willing to tear me a new one by now with arguments about how Flex and AIR will change the face of the interweb, but it’s my opinion and always will be that your website’s MAIN content should NEVER be in Flash. Let’s look at the letters you type into that address bar of your browser at least once every day: HTTP. Hyper. Text. Not animations, or effects, but text. Until that protocol changes I doubt Flash will ever be used as a serious web design platform.

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