My father-in-law took my son and me fishing for the day. He hired a guide and we went out on Richland Chambers Reservoir. This would prove to not be any ordinary fishing trip. Grandpa hired a guide named Cory to take us out on Richland Chambers Reservoir to show us the right places to find the best fish.…
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I think it is great that email is now the default form of communication for everyone from soccer teams to friends on an ad hoc joke list. I just have one request — please use the BCC line. This protects everyone’s email address so that each recipient only sees the sender’s email address and not all the other recipients.…
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I have had my iPhone for 12 hours now. I’m getting used to the keyboard enough to attempt to blog from it. I was impressed by the registration process. There’s no going back to my old phone. Apple saw to that by disabling the sim.…
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I’m confused. Is it a GSM phone or isn’t it. What happens to my old SIM? Is my old SIM still live on my phone number? What if I ever get to travel overseas?
It also appears that the iPhone does not support Games.…
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If you’re like me you probably have a half dozen little tags hanging from your keyring so you can get discounts at places like Kroger’s and Border’s Books. These kind of frequent shopper programs are nothing new. They have certainly become more prevalent lately as companies realize how easy it is to track their customers and how valuable that information could be.…
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I recently travelled to a conference and was impressed by the TV in the hotel room. It was a 32″ HD flat panel display right in the room. It looked really good and I was able to watch an episode of Lost in HD.…
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I went to see
Fantastic Four: The Rise of Silver Surfer at a midnight showing at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco. I went into this movie with very low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised by the experience and recommend this movie as a good summer “popcorn movie”.…
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I’m a recent convert to the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. I have heard a lot about it from listening to Leo Laporte podcasts. I did some investigation. I bought David Allen’s book. I have tried using the methodology using just iCal and am now trying iGTD and iCal.…
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Apple has stated that they will control the iPhone platform and not open it up to developers. They have also inferred that they will support Dashboard Widgets on the iPhone. Most Dashboad Widgets are just HTML and JavaScript. You can use DashCode to create them.…
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We are down to 12 hours until the Apple World-Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2007 begins and Steve Jobs gives the Keynote address. I wanted to commit to blog my thoughts about what might be coming tomorrow. This is all speculation. I have no inside information or magic crystal ball.…
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I was playing with Google’s face-recognition search capability and typed in ‘Bergere’ into the search box. After the usual dancers and actors I was surprised to see my father and aunt’s pictures. It seems that a high school classmate has made a little project of scanning the old yearbooks and uploading the pictures.…
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I’m converting all my content from my own content system to Drupal. It’s going to take a while. Still working on it. For older content, you can visit www.boan.net
Drupal modules are pretty cool. I’ve just found a Tex filter that would allow a teacher to post mathematic formulas in text.
So this text “f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt” would turn into
[tex]f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt[/tex]
The filter also can generate an iFrame with a graph. Here’s a sin(x) sample:
[graph]sin(x)[/graph]
