I have a TON of things to post about this past week and the amazing amount of thingsilearned at the doccom Plone sprint hosted by google. I also want to share some stories about the awesomeness that is the google campus, but for now I just want to note my current feeling of awesomeness toward [...]
Archive for June, 2007
26 Jun
The Facebook addiction
Facebook has evolved as one of the most powerful way of social networking, sharing photographs, video, blogs as well as communicating with friends and networks. Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s who studied facebook and it’s usage at his university. As he goes to describe his [...]
25 Jun
Jared.hockey – Air Hockey Robotic Opponent
I just ran into my files from one of the first JaredSIM sub-projects. It was my senior design project with the goal of making a robot that would beat the real Jared at air hockey. Naturally I called it Jared.hockey. A lot of people unfamiliar with the current state of robotics might be unimpressed by [...]
23 Jun
Fixing Autocorrect Behavior in MS Word
I’d like to discuss using macros to overcome a big limitation with Word’s Autocorrect feature: the expansion of single-character autocorrect entries in words with apostrophes before the last character. Suppose the letter “t” is set to expand into the word “the.” This will work as it should in most cases, except when typing words like “don’t.” Normally, [...]
20 Jun
JaredSIM – The Adventure
I get asked all the time about why I call all of my projects Jared.[project_name], what thingsilearned is about, and why we chose to call our company JaredSIM. The only way to explain it is to explain Jared, and the whole story, or adventure as I like to call it of JaredSIM. I thought I’d [...]
19 Jun
California – Lets go!
At 7:30 pm exactly 1 week ago today Priyesh, Vu and I packed up and left for the airport. At 9:50 our plane departed and at 11:50pm we landed in San Francisco California ready to conquer the world that lay ahead of us! … By 12:15 Priyesh and I were lost somewhere in the city [...]
15 Jun
Opening Tough Jars and Bottles for Tendonitis Sufferers
While I was dealing with tendonitis, I figured out how to open a variety of jars and bottles without too much strain. Here are some of the methods I’ve acquired: Spaghetti jars: Get a spoon. Wedge spoon slightly under jar lid and jimmy the rim. The safety button should pop. Lid comes off easily. Gatorade bottles. (This [...]
11 Jun
Batch .jpg Image Resizer
Last night I was looking all over for a batch image resizer. I needed to make a folder full of images smaller and didn’t want to open Gimp for each one. I downloaded 2 that weren’t what I wanted and just as I was about to get really frustrated I realized, hey, I’ve taken two [...]
10 Jun
Food for Thought & Thought about Food
For ages, cooking food has been considered to be an art perfected by few, and the rest of the people, just follow their footsteps. It has never before been seen as an experience. Why is it that hardly anyone goes into the kitchen and everytime, just try dfferent combinations and techniques with the same available [...]
10 Jun
On making business cards with Photoshop
Vu here. Since signing onto this project, I’ve had to figure out a thing or two about the program I’d be using for the artwork, namely, Photoshop. (It’s true that I’ve only produced one or two works so far using the program. I also feel that “winging it” is the sine qua non of a [...]
