Archive for 2008

Obama and fake posters

April 15th, 2008

So today Michelle Obama came to visit Haverford, and I went to see her speak. After she recapped the course of the campaign she gave a nice speech where she addressed things like supposed elitism.
According to an email from the college no one was allowed to bring any signs, but they did hand out some […]


Netflix “Watch Now” in Ubuntu

March 5th, 2008

Netflix now has unlimited online viewing with one catch: you must use Internet Explorer. This leaves the mac and linux users searching for virtualization software. I am an Ubuntu user, and I already had vmware server installed with both a windows xp and vista. Both of these options ‘worked’, but the playback was so choppy […]


Reddit RSS Feeds

January 22nd, 2008

I frequently visit reddit.com and am a big fan of the site. While you can append .rss to nearly any page on reddit and get an rss feed, many of the feeds have the same order of the page itself and are not ordered by date. They do offer this feed which shows some of […]


Some 2960 by 1050 backgrounds

January 14th, 2008

I just got a extra screen that makes my desktop this size, and there are not very many backgrounds available. Here are a few I created using the Hugin panorama generator and photos I took in australia. I would have a lot more high quality panoramas if I read this.

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Here are some large panoramas as well.

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Playing around with Actionscript 3.0

January 12th, 2008

So every once in awhile I have a pang to write a simple flash game. I ended up starting to build the exact same game I made back when Macromedia was its own company. That game was riddled with bugs and I wanted to make something stable. I assumed this would involve loading up vmware […]