Just checked up on my Google Reader statistics. From your 65 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,255 items, clicked 166 items, starred 3 items, shared 1 items, and emailed 0 items. Since November 22, 2006 you have … Continue reading
Recently I was reading an article titled Family, Verizon far apart over nearly $18,000 phone bill; basically, a college kid thought his family’s unlimited data plan was still in effect, and downloaded a little over 1 GB over the network, only … Continue reading
The Akismet plugin for WordPress wins today’s Most Ambiguous Button award. After subconsciously struggling with the meaning of the “Update options »” button, I realized why I was having such trouble: “update” could be either a noun or a verb, and … Continue reading
In most of the Google Wave waves I use, it would make more sense to have the blip-creator thumbnail and name changed to be right-aligned, basically what I’ve mocked up below. This style is less disruptive to the overall document’s … Continue reading
I’ve been experimenting with using Mnemosyne, a nifty open source flashcard/spaced repetition application, to learn Spanish. While I like the tactility of 3×5 flashcards for generic vocab study, studying oral questions is slightly harder; you need to have a volunteer … Continue reading
Over Christmas break (my last one of all time) I had a chance to get some good reading done, and I took the chance and ran with it. Awesomely, I also got a ton of work done on my helpful … Continue reading
If you spend twice as long building your debugging framework as you do actually developing, you still come out ahead – you get all that time back as soon as you catch just a few errors. It feels like a … Continue reading
I just published my first ever browser extension, called Plurk Notifier, for Google Chrome. It checks Plurk (akin to Twitter) for any unread messages and displays their count in the top bar. It was fun to wade back into JavaScript … Continue reading
This week is the first ever Computer Science Education Week. Some of the statistics on the official site are sobering (“The percent of high schools with rigorous computer science courses fell from 40% to 27% from 2005-2009″), while others are exciting: … Continue reading
I’ve been using Chrome considerably more over the past few weeks, and with the addition of [developer-only build] extensions, Firefox may gather more dust than I expected. I just tweaked the Google Reader Checker extension to fix a weakness it … Continue reading