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| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| pondering |
your touch sends shivers through my body
accidental touches: i swear that last one was on purpose
that smile, that look, the stares
mean anything?
something, nothing, everything?
I guess I'll never know
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| The end..... |
sort of. This project is now officially over. We turned in the documentation at 12am this morning. I was more tired today than yesterday. Definitely didn't make it to my 8am. Came home and crashed for two hours, ready for bed again, but i'm hoping if I go to bed by 11 or 12 I'll be fine tomorrow. Did I mention I've done jack shit today?
I dyed my hair. I have really dark brown hair as it is, so finding a color that will work is hard but Clairols Rosewood seems to have done the trick. It's now a nice dark auburn/red color. I like it, pretty sure no one else will notice tomorrow, but that's always the fun after changing something like that.
Guess I should go and do something, I feel like the past 5 days have been a waste. We had better gotten an A on that stupid thing. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/29/2005 09:47:00 PM |
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| Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| Sleep |
I'd really like some...., sleep that is. Pulling 2 all nighters within about 4 days of each other, not the smartest on my part. Stupid school. I'm tired, bored out of my mind at work and should be working on documentation that needs to be done by midnight. Sooner that gets done sooner I'm asleep. Hopefully I make it that long. Since sat. night (whcih i got 5 hrs of sleep night) I've gotten 2 hrs of sleep, skipped 4 classes, didn't turn in a homework and missed a quiz. Not a normal thing with me, but this other class is a bitch.
I'm excited I now have official plans for this summer, no going to live at home or trying to find an internship (did I mention I gave up? I look horrible on paper). Take a few classes this summer, work part time and then only have to take 13 credits each semester when all my friends will be graduating. I'm looking forward to it, not them graduation. That'll be sad :( .
I'd like a social life again.
I'm in a bad mood, i'd love to just bitch someone out right now. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/28/2005 07:16:00 PM |
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| Saturday, March 26, 2005 |
| mysql |
I've lately dived head first into mysql. It's not to bad itself. Learning how to access it and manipulate it through java is a bit harder. I've never done any thing with databases so this is definitely learning from scratch. In the middle of a large group project for school is not the best time to start learning it, but definitely has helped me figure out what I'm doing. I found lots of useful website and figure I might as well share what I have found. May eventually write my own. If I was having issues finding specific things for java I'm sure others have.
In general it's not hard but a little time consuming to learn well.
MySQL Basics -- A helpful MySQL Tutorial: best basic tutorial for installation and beginning basics.
MySQL Reference Manual :: 3 MySQL Tutorial: Tutorial from mysql themselves going over basic functions of the database. Suprisingly good for an official document.
I used a few others googeling for certain commands but in general these 2 were the biggest help. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/26/2005 04:17:00 PM |
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| Sunday, March 20, 2005 |
| Best Extensions |
Making the most of Firefox is all about adding extensions. If you don't take advantage of them you're really missing out! Here are my top choices. Wouldn't load a computer with out them (not to mention firefox).
- Adblock - blocks ads on websites, pop-ups and even most flash based ads
- Tabbrowser Extensions - must have for making the most of your tab browsing experience. "single window" option is a must
- gmail notifier - sits in the bottom tray and lets you know if you have email in your gmail account
- SpellBound - Checks the spelling of highlighted text anywhere in firefox. Available in other languages also. I use English and French
- ieview - adds a option on right clicking links to have it open directly in IE for those less than cooperating websites
- weatherfox - gives you the weather in the statusbar/toolbar
- LiveLines - adds rss feeds to live book marks or other rss feeds with an RSS icon on the status bar
- SessionSaver - restores your last browsing session
- Greasemonkey - user script manager
- User Agent Switcher - adds a menu and toolbar button to switch the user agent information that a browser sends when asking for a website, you can specify the browser you want it to think you're using
- ColorZilla - has an eyedropper for finding out the rgb % or hex number of a color anywhere with in the firefox browser, a color picker, and a page zoom
If you have problems ever installing extensions or themes, sometimes the install box won't come up, right click and save as... to save it to your hard drive and then drag and drop it into the corresponding extension or left frame of the theme box. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/20/2005 03:54:00 AM |
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| Soople |
| Cool grouping of searches so far that I've seen. Soople combines searching google, specific topics, within a site, translation, related sites, and much more in one easy to use page. Other pages have a collection of calculators you can use, people find, reverse look ups and much more. All in all a great place to find what you might need. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/20/2005 03:40:00 AM |
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| Shred your data |
Found a good article about the importance, and how to get rid of data on a hard drive that you are going to sell back. Definitely want to make sure you completely wipe the hard drive. I've heard of many that are supposed to get rid of it, but the best seems to be the one the article talks about. Using shred from a bootable linux distro. Knoppix probably your best bet. Not sure when you'd want to sell your hard drives but I'm sure someone will find it useful.
Found where the music has gone to on MTV. 3am-? apparently is the best time to find semi-decent music. I love TheKillers. Their cd Hot Fuss is great. Mr. Brightside is my favorite and the music video isn't that bad. Don't get me wrong, I don't watch mtv all that much, kinda sad but I'm 21 and at times feel old watching 16 year olds on it. Oh well.
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| posted by mpcc @ 3/20/2005 03:30:00 AM |
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| It's been a long week off |
It has been a long week off. I didn't get anything that I wanted done done. I'm thinking of just staying up tonight and getting stuff done. I shouldn't have procrastinated so much. Anyway.....
It's been awhile since I've posted. I've changed the color scheme, I like it a little better than the other one. Still looking for fonts that I like, but first thing first. Let me know if it's completely unreadable or whatever.
So, without further ado all the cool, interesting (at least to me) things I've found over my week of doing not a damn thing.
New Firefox Theme: Silver Skin ~ very cool, clean, modern, sleek design, my new favorite.
Lately I've been hanging around LearntoHack.org. Good site to brush up on hacking skills, or just to expand your general knowledge. One of the best I've found. I'm currently stuck on Moderate Level 1. Need to brush up on my Unix commands.
I've also been learning more about html, xml, css, aps, etc. with the tutorials at W3Schools. Lots of good infromation there.
Doing the hacking site found a few good cryptography sites:
- History of Quantum Cryptography
- Encryption Tutorial
- The Crypto Tutorial
Intersting information on how to trick yourself into not procrastinating. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/20/2005 02:52:00 AM |
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| Saturday, March 12, 2005 |
| Funny News |
Granted this is from the Inquirer, maybe that's why it's funny, it's still funny: Hackers put Bush in Power
This one is interesting. How much would you pay per mp3?
I read somewhere else that the WI governer has decided that it would be a good idea to charge a 5% state sales tax on internet downloads. Voluntary. Riiiiight, that will work. Some times, I just have to say, I don't like admitting I'm from WI. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/12/2005 09:26:00 PM |
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| SpywareBlaster 3.3 Released |
| Go get it. SpywareBlaster is real time protection against over 3000 cookies, BHOs, and restricted sites. Helps keep your computer free of all that annoying extra crap websites and downloads can load on without your permission. I've been using it for the past 7 months and have not found anything on Ad-Aware or Spybot for quite a few months. Granted I think using Firefox is the biggest contributor there but you never know. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/11/2005 03:09:00 PM |
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| P2P legal in France? |
| Found this site from slashdot. It seems the French government pardoned the charges brought against him from downloading more than 500 movies. Apparently since he wasn't sharing them or making money from them he wasn't doing anything illegal. Their argument was also that since they pay private copy fee when they buy computers and blank media it's sort of paid for. The article is in French so you may want to use bablefish to translate it. |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/11/2005 02:54:00 PM |
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| Long Week in Review |
Wow it's been a week. Thank god for spring break next week! Since I never procrastinate or anything I found nothing to blog about. Riiiight, so I'm going to start putting all the interesting news and sites I have found during this week up in separate posts. Easier to organize them that way, since there are lots of them.
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Like I said, it's been a long week. They love dumping it all on us right befor we go on break. I had a test at 9am this morning. Not so sure it went well. My own fault, didn't give myself enough time to study for it. Not to mention I gave up for about an hour and a half to hang out at the bars with friends. I was good tho didn't get smashed just had a drink or two and came back to study for another 45min.
I'm looking forward to not having anything due for the next few days. I have stuff to work on, but I can do it on my own schedule. Up by noon, bed by 3-4am. My kind of hours. I'm sticking around here for break. Broke, so a trip is out of the question and my family is only a little under 2hrs away from here so I really don't feel the need to go there. Easier this way. Mom is coming to visit me sometime next week too. Groceries!!! Not to mention mom time of course. I'm looking forward to some me time, most people will be gone at least monday - wednesday. St. Paty's day should be fun though as people start coming back for the end of the week. At least a few of us.
Other than that this week as been hectic, stressful, and all around horrilbe. But it's FRIDAY!!!!
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I'm getting a case of beer for fixing a friends computer. I won't let them pay me but he insisted, so we agreed that that worked well. I like Coors Light. Should be easy to fix too, mostly just virus problems and spyware type issues. Needs cleaned up and some protection put on. It also looks like something disabled his anti-virus so will have to get rid of that right away. Forgot to find out if he was paying for Mcafee or not. I hate that program.
Look for a collection of random websites and interesting articles/posts I have found through out the week........... |
| posted by mpcc @ 3/11/2005 02:34:00 PM |
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| Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| Little reasons we (techs) have jobs |
My dad and I are the only two who really know anything helpful about computers and that type of stuff. My uncle knows some but it's more of a small side hobby when he has time. So majority of my immediate family calls our house when they have problems and depending on who is home and who it is, me or my dad will take it.
My mom's Uncle has a general knowledge about it, not huge but enough to kind of understand, or so I thought. My mom got an email today where he writes:
[my mom],
[ISP] now offers Broadband/DLS Internet.
Can you tell me what it is and why I would want it.
[her uncle] I got a kick out of this!
Our family is always entertaining. My gramma is also calling often. She got an HP laptop, no one had any idea till we saw it, kind of wish she would have consulted us but... HP.... I just shake my head. She had best buy set up a wireless network for her since she has a laptop, desktop and printer. They made quite the mess of it and cost her $150 more than she needed to spend. The last time we were home we took everything back and fixed it up for her better. I have to say as random as her having wireless is, it's great to have when we're visiting family. Apparently she has a friend who knows computer stuff, which means more than my gramma knows but enough to get her in BIG trouble, helped her with everything. It was entertaining. She kept saying my friend told me this and that etc. I just kept telling the way it actually was. Her friend was basically reiterating what the BestBuy guys had explained and written down for her.
In the spirit of these fun, disastrous tech stories, here is another site that I just found off of digg that you may enjoy: techmenot.com
I like to call these the little reasons we have jobs!
Gotta love helping family!
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| Sunday, March 06, 2005 |
| WTF Start |
I found the best startpage. Fully customizable, allowing you to add up to 8 links and customizing the logo picture. Tho i kinda like the one they already have up there.
Anyway just click on customize and start putting in your links. The links show up above the google ones. It's a great page. I normally have google come up on IE and then my school page come up under firefox. Now the search box with this page is googles and you just have to click on one of the links to get where you need to go.
You can also have a RSS feed. It's meant for news I think, but then you can put in your own so theoretically it could be anything. I have slashdot for now.
The only annoying part is that it saves your settings in the address so after you make changes you have to reset your startpage with that new address. More an annoyance than anything, only takes seconds but still...
All in all a very good idea and a great page. Hope you enjoy it!
Found from digg.
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| Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| Friday Tech Link List |
Here are some technology related links I have found randomly this week, mostly from sites I don't remeber now:
- wordpress, blogger, pmachine, movable type, expression engine
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| Friday French Link List |
Been awhile, appears that the real world is trying to keep me from having fun! But anyway here are some cool tech/french sites that I have found and some that I have known about for awhile, all very cool:
- RFI -- Radio French Internationale -- french talk radio and just an overall good site, also has a language section
- Clubic -- French site with game news and some tech news
- Standblog "un journal sure les standards du Web et autres futilitiés"
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Infoly - information and documentation of the internet -
Epsilon Light - for those passionate about computer information - Windows and Linux
tutorials, free games, bog and mini web protal +200 links - Epsilon - from the creator of Epsilon light
- Weblogger.ch - a blog with different internet related info
- Fluent French - a good informational document about french the way it really is from an American who lived there
- comptoirs du monde - a blog dedicated to expanding knowledge on frequenty used french expressions
Let me know if you find cool French websites, tech related or not. Always looking for something to read to help my French!
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