In which I stop using WordPress and start using a custom solution I programmed myself using Django for this website's content management.
Photo Download 1.0.0 Released
published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I have released version 1.0.0 of my photo downloading Facebook application. Changes include:
- Faster downloading
- The ability to choose where pictures are downloaded
- Notification of the release of new versions of the application
Poor Name Recognition
published 2 months, 4 weeks ago
From KSG Dean Unveils New Name, Slogan:
"One of our key findings was that we were not leveraging our affiliation with Harvard as effectively as we could be," she said, adding that the school shares the Kennedy name with more than 900,000 other institutions around the world.Jackson said the rebranding is a response to poor name recognition of the school beyond Harvard.
"There's a lot of confusion out there as to who we even are," she said.
An article from today's New York Times on America's unique positions regarding free speech autolinks the school's ...
Movie Review: Drillbit Taylor
published 5 months ago
Drillbit Taylor is a story of a group of high school freshmen who hire the title character (a homeless ex-soldier played by Owen Wilson) to protect them from the local bully. Since they are naïve freshmen, they believe Taylor's ridiculous claims about being discharged for "unauthorized heroism" and being able to use a silver serving platter as body armor.
One would be forgotten for passing on this film after having viewing the absolutely atrocious trailer (the in-theater previews were much worse) and the lackluster reviews. But Drillbit Taylor is a Seth Rogen / Judd Apatow movie, which gives it ...
Inconsistent Microsoft Office
published 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I must confess to be looking forward to the release of OpenOffice 3.0, with all of its native Aqua glory.
About a month ago, I got tired of waiting NeoOffice's ridiculously long load times for networked files, and switched to Microsoft Office 2008. Office 2008 and its Windows counterpart, Office 2007, use Microsoft's new OOXML file formats, at the expense of backwards compatibility (owners of older versions of Office have to install non-obvious plugins in order to open documents created in the new format). Microsoft describes OOXML as "an open, royalty-free file format specification [that] maximizes interoperability ...