Category Archives: Computers

An Earful of Stories

August 2, 2007 – 7:36 am

This is just a quick shill for Escape Pod, a Science Fiction/Fantasy podcast I recently stumbled across. It broadcasts well-read weekly stories along with a light sprinkling of discussion on top. The stories are of consistently high quality, and feature names such as David Brin, Robert Silverburg and Isaac Asimov which will be immediately familiar [...]

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Come Together, Right Now, Over Facebook

July 31, 2007 – 8:03 am

Back when I was a member, the Macarthur High School Choir used to put on an annual Renaissance Dinner, wherein all of the choir members would don vaguely archaic dress, drink from flagons, and sing John Rutter Christmas carols and the occasional song in Latin for the enjoyment of the assembled audience (which in retrospect [...]

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Yahoo Pipes

July 20, 2007 – 12:41 pm

Yahoo Pipes is a nifty service that Steve Ivy tipped me off to. It provides a visual programming language, like Quartz Composer or Isadora, to suck in data from the web, process it, and spit it back out again. It makes it pretty easy to do interesting mashups, like a search for apartments in your [...]

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iPhone Quest 2007: Success!

June 30, 2007 – 6:43 am

My buddy David went down to San Antonio Thursday night to queue up for Apple’s new iPhone. His patience was rewarded not only with successful acquisition of one of the coveted devices, but also with the chance to enjoy his 15 minutes of fame. He received coverage on:

My San Antonio: There was also a superb [...]

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Moving to WordPress

June 26, 2007 – 4:56 pm

This weblog has always been run on Conversant, an excellent groupware, weblogging and publishing tool created by Macrobyte Resources. I worked for the company back in 2000, and enjoyed that time immensely, thanks both to the superb people I was surrounded by and the great projects we got to work on together. It was a [...]

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New Texas State Homepage

June 25, 2007 – 7:38 pm

The last 3 months of work at the office finally comes to fruition: we’ve launched the new Texas State University site! The old one was some pretty sloppy work, so I’m particularly excited by the quality of this new design.
Especially sexy bits for the technical folks:

XHTML Strict.
CSS-based design; not a table in sight.
Automatically generated headline [...]

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Boring RSS Housekeeping

June 14, 2007 – 7:36 pm

Hi folks,
For those of you subscribed to this weblog via RSS, please update your readers to the new feed address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mcmains/ruminations
The old address will continue to work for the time being, but may break at some point in the future. Thanks!
UPDATE: For some reason, this particular post attracts comment spammers like moths to a flamethrower. Thus, [...]

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