I’m engaged! I proposed to Joni last night and she said yes!
How did I do it? Well…

It was Monday night, after class. We both got done around 8:00 and headed home. While Joni waited unsuspectingly at home, I set my plan into action. After getting everything set up, I called her and asked her to [...]

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I’m tired of the music on your blog. What makes you think you can play your music on my computer?
I found a nerdy solution to the problem. Since most of those annoying “playlists” found on blogspot blogs all come from playlist.com, you can eliminate most of the problem with this command (for fellow mac users):

ipfw [...]

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The Black Box
Consider a black box. The box takes, as inputs, a number of things. As output, the box produces some output that is both expected and desired. How the box works and what’s inside of it is of no moment. What matters, for now, is whether it works or not.
Not understanding the inner workings, [...]

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(Warning: nerdy, but skippable, portions found in [brackets])
The other night I was thinking about a friend who shares an email account with his wife. I know there are a lot of efficiencies that come from sharing - but does that apply online, when things are free and no real resources are consumed? Sharing an email [...]

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I got tired of constantly checking for new grades. I wrote some software that does the job for me. It worked well enough that I thought I’d share it. So I created a little website where GW students can sign up and have my system automatically check for them. When new grades arrive, they can [...]

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So it should be pretty clear by now that Windows Vista breaks everything. Not even the Zune worked with it. But recently I found the most ironic incompatibility: Visual Studio. For the less tech-savvy, Visual Studio is what you can use to make programs in Windows. Microsoft released a new version some time ago, in [...]

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