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A while back Sprint ran a contest to be one of 10 people to win an HTC EVO before the release date. The entry required that you write a short “essay” about how you could put an EVO to work. Well…I deviated from the path and wrote a poem instead. Yep, I’m a geek… Turns [...]

I finally got my blog upgraded to the newest version of WordPress 2.7.1 today. I had been running 2.3 for ages simply because it worked. Quite a bit has changed and all for the better! Amazing that all the plugins I kept trying to work with suddenly all work perfectly now… I also got Mindnasium [...]

Here’s a time lapse I shot at this month’s Build Lebanon Trails hike. It is a good bit over exposed. I never can seem to get a handle on proper exposure on overcast days… Might have something to do with my distaste for the drab light that overcast days create. The music is one of [...]

My brother is currently in the trenches of high school and for his Economics class was assigned to interview a local business owner. He choose to interview me as a freelancer who is building an LLC out of Mind Kitchen Media. We got started in person, but unfortunately didn’t have enough time to do the [...]

We’ve got a bunch of nifty technologies that will soon be prominent in the consumer sector. When combined these technologies have the power to change the way we work with computers dramatically. Today I’d like to tell you about a few of them. First, we have more and more processors popping up with multiple cores. [...]

This is an essay I wrote about a year ago. Finally decided to post it up here on the ‘ole personal blog. I’ve learned a good bit more since I wrote this and intend to write a follow up to take care of a few loose ends. For instance, there are now some references that [...]

There have been many distributed computing projects around for years. Basically these projects work by sending out data to many computers to do calculations on in the computer’s spare time. It started with Distributed.net attempting to crack MD5 encryption with brute computing force. As Distributed gained popularity other projects started popping up en masse. The [...]