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For the week of 2010-04-18 in Tweets

  • Learning about plurals in counting: 1 day, 2 days, 5 days, etc. Turkish, et al: 1 day, 2 day, 5 day, Russian, et al: 1 day, 2 days, 5 dayen #
  • Email triage!! Stat! #
  • @ClarkMFKent Sorry, it's been a busy week. Did you send me an email? in reply to ClarkMFKent #
  • Dear Lord: right now I would just like a calm day at work tomorrow…or even some other day this week. it's been too crazy of late. amen #fb #
  • @AmandaWalton wtf? What was the actual context? in reply to AmandaWalton #
  • When the nanophase rutile becomes sufficiently small, their symmetry is no longer described accurately by the space group. #whatido #
  • Interesting taste combination for the afternoon: Garlic and raisins. #
  • Fuzzifier: The fuzzifier uses the membership function to convert the system true value into linguistic fuzzy sets. #
  • @iansltx That's awesome!! Why couldn't I have this 5 years ago?! in reply to iansltx #
  • @jessegamble isitup.org in reply to jessegamble #
  • @SAASAlumni Fatal Failure on the link ๐Ÿ™ in reply to SAASAlumni #
  • Amazing footage! RT @WookieeBoy: Revisiting launch footage from Apollo 11. Quite fascinating to watch http://n.pr/bDRMOv #
  • One might think reading through a NASA Technical Support Package document should not make me this happy….but it does #fb #
  • on to lost season 2 #

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Making Progress

I’ve finished with round one of my Spring 2010 Portfolio Project. I’ve gone through all my photos from last year and whittled them down to this first pass. Yes, there are many photo here that I will be excluding from my portfolio, but I had to start somewhere and these 133 photos are where I’m starting.

Please feel free to comment or through in other suggestions. Nothing from this year is included on purpose. I generally like to let photos simmer for at least six months before I do anything with them.

I think James put it best, my goal should be to “really redefine the image or genre.”

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Home Away From HomE-Days

This is my first year away from home for E-Days. I celebrated by joining some fellow Mines Alumni at Ivar’s Salmon House on Thursday evening1 for drinks and dinner. I met some great engineers, we talked about what do, teachers we had, exploits we participated in, and beers we drank.

I was sad to not be part of chaos this year, but also glad that I didn’t have two spend every waking hour for two three straight days covering the events (it takes a toll on the body). I think I’ve successfully immortalized myself by getting my photos published yet again in The Oredigger. This puts me at two articles and probably close to two dozen photos published in three issues since I’ve graduated. Not bad for an alum living 1000 miles away.

This year had some nice coverage from Steven Wooldridge of The Oredigger and James Dimagiba (you should really check out James’ photos, they are quite good), among others.

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Fireworks for the 2009 display

  1. The official kick off for E-Days ↩

For the week of 2010-04-11 in Tweets

  • Found some Super DLT tapes next to the trash. What should I do with them? #
  • Droid + Amazon app makes it far too easy to buy books: just scan the barcode, pay, and wait for it to arrive. Wish I had this in college #fb #
  • @moniguzman I believe the Petronas Towers and Eiffel Tower both came in underbudget as well in reply to moniguzman #
  • After six years of holding out, I'm finally caving in. Watching Lost: Season 1, Episode 1. You're welcome. #lost #fb #
  • On a scale of 1 to Stressed…I'm stressed. #welcometotherealworld #fb #
  • @k_hack wait for the 4g in reply to k_hack #
  • This is awesome! Meeting up with fellow @CSMAA for EDays 'Round the World. *sniff* First EDays I'm away from home *sniff* #fb #
  • good evening of #climbing with @CavaB33 and steph at @VWclimbing #

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Preposterous Voice Transcriptions

I use Google Voice for all my voicemail needs. One of the cool features, in theory, is that it will transcribe a voicemail left for me and send it to my phone or email. This is great when I’m in a meeting or in class and can’t actually listen to the voicemail, but I can glance at it. Unless of course, the transcription goes completely awry. As in this case:

Hey Drew, this is Karen me and my daughter give me a give me a kiss on Saturday and she wanted to go if you can do it would be great. We can go ahead and yeah call or on that, so if you to call. It’s going to come back number is (206) 555-12121 bye.

The voicemail was actually my friend (a guy, by the way) calling to see if I wanted to go skiing on Saturday.

  1. the phone number was practically the only thing the transcription service actually got correct ↩

For the week of 2010-04-04 in Tweets

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Countdown Timer v2.4

Just over a year ago I released Countdown Timer v2.3.5. I’ve had the fortunate opportunity to participate many great things over the last year, which is probably why there hasn’t been an release since.

Anyway, I’ve been slaving away at this release for the last three weeks:

Weeks of 2010 - Blue = Internet Applications (i.e. Chrome, Firefox, IE); Red = Development Applications (i.e. Dreamweaver); Tan = Utilities (i.e. PuTTY, FileZilla, etc)
Weeks of 2010 - Blue = Internet Applications (i.e. Chrome, Firefox, IE); Red = Development Applications (i.e. Dreamweaver); Tan = Utilities (i.e. PuTTY, FileZilla, etc)

I probably spent close to twenty hours, committed over 50 revisions, and had 865 lines changes in the core code1. For all this change behind the scenes, you expect to see some changes in the actual interface. Amazingly not.

Most of the work had to do with bringing the code up to WordPress 2.9/3.0 standards. This will ensure that this plugin continues to work well in to the future. As well as trying to keep up with best practices for WordPress Plugin coding.

The other major update dealt with adding CSS hooks to the html elements so that they can be customized better/more fully. In doing this, I also rewrote part of fergcorp_countdownTimer_format to make it less repetitive. This, unfortunately, caused a minor issue with using the [fergcorp_cdt_single date="ENTER_DATE_HERE"] shortcode that has the li-element included; I’ll fix that in a dot-dot release (i.e. 2.4.1).

The settings for Countdown Timer moved the WordPress Tools to Settings in the Admin Menu and you only need to be an Options Manager instead of Administrator to update the options. I think the only other change worth mentioning is that there is now an option to parse shortcodes in the_excerpt. Note that enabling this functionality will parse all shortcodes, not just ones related to Countdown Timer.

As per tradition:

Read more or download version 2.4!

  1. There’s only 1000 source lines of code [SLOC] to begin with, so this is sort of substantial ↩

Shared Items for the week of March 28, 2010*

* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.