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Recently, Facebook released Facebook Chat. Here’s what it looks like: It was inevitable. Gmail has had built-in Chat for a long time now.
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Funny Video Clip: An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a long time. It’s an engineer’s guide to cats! These cats have varying aspect ratios and leaping capabilities. Actually, I’m allergic to cats, but it’s a funny video clip nonetheless. I challenge you to make a “An Engineer’s Guide to __________” video!
Jason Marshall and Petey
Today I’d like to tell you about Petey. He’s a 12-year-old boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. It’s fatal, but Jason Marshall is helping him to live a happy and fulfilling life by being his full-time one-on-one aide. I blogged about Jason Marshall back in October. To get around, Petey uses a power wheelchair. This requires…Continue Reading…
Software security
The following is a paid review: I was asked to review Software security, a website offering software security articles. The first thing I noticed when I saw the site was the simple, clean layout design. The top of the page has the heading “software security @web articles”, with the second part in a blue color….Continue Reading…
Coon King Card Game?
I’m reading Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, and on page 221 it says this: We walked over to one of the little broken-down tables and pulled up a couple of creates and started a game of Coon King as all th eteenagers stood around looking. … All that evening I sat playing…Continue Reading…
Meme: 7 things about me you’d not likely guess
I sat down to do some Java programming for a school project when I went to check my email first. Turns out my mother has “tagged” me with an internet meme, to post 7 things about myself you wouldn’t guess. (A meme is “any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that…Continue Reading…