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iPod giveaway

Dan — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:48:22 +0000

What the heck right?

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Worth a read

Dan — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:02:48 +0000

My college roommate has made his second step onto the online stage. At first he would write at xanga, but was feeling confined by the format provided there. One domain and wordpress install later and Ben Reynolds is up and running. In fact he even gave me a very touching tribute here. I will admit that I liked his original blog name much better “Brazenly Apathetic”, but I suppose it wasn’t fitting in to the mature level of writing he’s trying to portray. Like this and this and don’t forget this.

So go check it out, he is a great writer and very funny. It’s the funny…but it makes you think kind of thing. And what’s not to love about a writer with the great tagline:

My infallible opinions. Feel free to adopt them as your own. There’s no shame in that.

Intelligent Design

Dan — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:01:06 +0000

Great article by Orson Scott Card on Creation and Evolution

WorldWatch – January 8, 2006 – Creation and Evolution in the Schools – The Ornery American

Real science never has to resort to credentialism. If someone with no credentials at all raises a legitimate question, it is not an answer to point out how uneducated or unqualified the questioner is. In fact, it is pretty much an admission that you don’t have an answer, so you want the questioner to go away.

Bank of America: Keep the Change

Dan — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:43:46 +0000

Photo by Hey Paul

Very cool idea from Bank of America. They will round up every purchase that you make using their debit card. This money is then put into a savings account. It’s like having your own coin jar at home, but in electronic form

Bank of America

Feed Lounge

Dan — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:52:27 +0000

I’m a pretty loyal Bloglines user, with over 300 different subscriptions through that service. I’ve tried some of the other websites out there, but nothing really fit my workflow the same way. That being said, I’m very excited about FeedLounge. Unfortunately it is a closed beta test right now, so all I have are screenshots to go off of. But they look great.

I’ve been happy with Bloglines, but there are things that are missing in it, and it is occasionally very buggy. I look forward to trying out this new service. It looks like it looks great and here’s hoping it has the function to match.

And it runs WordPress

For Rickee

Dan — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:56:14 +0000

Last time we were in California Rickee was playing some Katamari or something game. Basically all he did was roll this large ball around collecting various objects. While the overall concept seemed very simplistic and easy, it was mesmorizing to watch and evidently very addicting to play. Now I can’t say that I got in to it that much, but I did think this picture was very clever

The photo comes from Kirsten Bole and can be found at this web site.

Tables

Dan — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:33:24 +0000

With the standards revolution in full swing, it seems that a lot of sites look at tables as pure evil. But you are actually supposed to use tables for tabular data. I know it sounds crazy, but information that is supposed to be in a table, actually looks good in a table.

Enter Setting the Table. A very well written and comprehensive look at tables and some of the things you can do to style them. One thing in particular was the col element that lets you style an entire column. Very cool, although I thought I read somewhere the IE doesn’t support this attribute (big surprise). I’ll have to check on that

LDS Linker Plugin

Dan — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:58:58 +0000

Very cool plugin that takes any reference to scripture verses and links them to the official lds.org website.

Moro. 10:3-5 is a scripture mastery verse. Other scripture mastery verses include Mosiah 4:30, D&C 130:22-23, and JS-H 1:15-20. I have Articles of Faith 1:1-13 memorized

Tivo HME

Dan — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:12:51 +0000

Tivo has announced that they are opening up their SDK for Active Download and development. It will be really cool to see the kind of applications that will be put out there. From the look at the Gallery there are going to be a lot of options for the Tivo.

The one that I am the most excited for is the ability to watch video from the internet or from your own computer. That means that I may be able to stream tv shows that I’ve downloaded through BitTorrent onto the home television! Now all I need to get it to do is play Xbox games and I’m almost as cool as my friend who has a media hub for his xbox.

Using JUnit and Eclipse

Dan — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:07:52 +0000

Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE by Alexander Prohorenko and Olexiy Prohorenko — Test-driven development principles call for writing the tests before writing any code. Alexander and Olexiy Prohorenko demonstrate how this approach can be used with the JUnit testing tool and the Eclipse IDE.

This is a great article about how you can get JUnit up and running with the Eclipse IDE. I am using Eclipse at work and the more and more that I use it the more impressed I am with its power and usability. And use cases are the best for taking some of the guesswork out of coding.