News Archive
All of the news entries for this site have been stashed on this page. Some of the oldest entries contain links to nonexistant pages; my apologies for that. Otherwise, though, you should be able to find everything.
November 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
After working all night at a 24 coffee house, I took a ride around the...
October 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
The uuorld.com server used to be hosted on a standard dedicated box at a datacenter...
October 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
After a hiatus of several months, I've been listening to the Current (part of Minnesota...
October 6, 2008 | 1 Comments
% python >>> import this ...
September 30, 2008 | 0 Comments
A great .vimrc file for coding in my favorite language: vimrc. This...
September 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
I posted some photos from my bike rides around San Francisco and Marin. ...
September 11, 2008 | 0 Comments
Dropbox is, um, amazing. File sharing and syncing across computers. You can...
August 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
Yahoo has some of the best mapping and geo-location APIs. Their GeoPlanet services provides a...
July 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
At UUorld, I get to work on a lot of cool problems. Often I find...
July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
Not sure what was going on today... but it looks like pandora.com was hacked for...
July 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
Since my initial idea for testing whether you have visited a certain website by sniffing...
June 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
Since moving to San Francisco, I've been biking often over the Golden Gate into Marin....
June 2, 2008 | 1 Comments
Google has a great set of keyboard shortcuts available when you search. The J/K keys...
May 7, 2008 | 1 Comments
Lately I have been coding a lot in C++. Earlier this week I added two...
May 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
Your safety on the road depends mostly on the competence of the driver and the...
April 8, 2008 | 1 Comments
We know that China has been on an economic up-swing in recent years, but this...
March 25, 2008 | 0 Comments
This website was experiencing some technical difficulties recently. The server hosting the site had its...
January 4, 2008 | 1 Comments
In 2007, my resolution was to learn Linux. Lucky for me, the Ubuntu team...
December 19, 2007 | 1 Comments
Whenever I wonder why I don't use Yahoo email, I just login to one of...
December 11, 2007 | 0 Comments
Don't put the cappuccino/latte machine in the front of your bar. It makes a racket,...
October 27, 2007 | 0 Comments
On Facebook friends, by Hugh MacLeodDecorum comics, by Darcey ...
October 26, 2007 | 1 Comments
The new release of Ubuntu Linux (version 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon), has proven for me to...
October 23, 2007 | 4 Comments
Last weekend I was camping at Frontenac State Park with Nathan, Ben, and John. A...
October 18, 2007 | 0 Comments
Begone ye flightless morrow; Revel, thou chieftain, in this dark moment, Waning Luna...
October 14, 2007 | 1 Comments
Two good things to do while teaching one-on-one. Explain the material.More importantly, give your student...
October 12, 2007 | 1 Comments
Causes a loss of perspective. Space and time lose meaning, hills feel like plains, valleys...
October 9, 2007 | 3 Comments
It's been nine months since I converted fully to a Linux computing environment. On the...
October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments
Berkeley recently announced that they'll be uploading videos of lectures to YouTube. You can find...
September 30, 2007 | 1 Comments
I have a new rule #1 when crafting websites for new clients.Assume from the start...
September 5, 2007 | 1 Comments
In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked...
August 24, 2007 | 1 Comments
My alma mater's website has a new look and feel. It's elegant, easy to navigate,...
August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments
Life's been busy, too busy to keep this blog active. I'll post again when I...
July 25, 2007 | 1 Comments
Twin Cities SidewalksA blog about local culture and sidewalks in Minneapolis and St. Paul. I...
July 23, 2007 | 1 Comments
I am counting down the days until I move from Washington to Minnesota. Early next...
July 20, 2007 | 0 Comments
I learned a new mouse gesture for Firefox: Right click, drag your...
July 18, 2007 | 0 Comments
Using CSS selectors on visited links you could easily set a dynamically-generated image (1px transparent)...
July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments
I know I'm late to the game, but Dinosaur Comics is really funny. ...
July 11, 2007 | 3 Comments
I like hydroponic vegetables, but when the label says you can put your basil in...
July 10, 2007 | 5 Comments
Well, here it is. There are many reasons why I wanted to redesign this site,...
July 9, 2007 | 0 Comments
One of the common themes in science fiction novels is an obsession with immortal life,...
July 2, 2007 | 1 Comments
I know this is going to sound like a Hallmark card you'd get for a...
June 26, 2007 | 1 Comments
I am always amazed at the applicability of strategy games to real world situations: Stratego,...
June 19, 2007 | 2 Comments
Many people before me have compiled lists of their favorite science fiction novels, and I...
June 14, 2007 | 2 Comments
Just a quick note: If you're planning to build a website, there is only one...
June 7, 2007 | 0 Comments
Thom Yorke The EraserArcade Fire Neon BibleThe Polyphonic Spree The Fragile Army...
June 3, 2007 | 3 Comments
I've finally posted some photos from Norway. What a beautiful country! My camera does not...
June 1, 2007 | 0 Comments
I promise the Norway pictures are coming soon. For the time being,...
May 29, 2007 | 0 Comments
As of May 3, there were 209 known planets outside of our solar system.1 ...
May 1, 2007 | 1 Comments
Ann, Joyce, and I recently took a trip to Mt. Vernon, the venerable mansion of...
April 26, 2007 | 1 Comments
Whenever I see spam for all those risky online pharmaceuticals, I can’t help but be...
April 21, 2007 | 0 Comments
"I ain't been dropping no eaves, sir, honest! I was just cutting the grass under...
April 20, 2007 | 3 Comments
I just learned this nifty shortcut in Firefox. Did you accidentally close a tab? Just...
April 17, 2007 | 0 Comments
By all traditional psychological measures, the Nazis who committed the atrocities of the Holocaust were...
April 15, 2007 | 1 Comments
Douglas Blank's Robots make computer science personal (membership required to read the full article), ...
April 9, 2007 | 0 Comments
OK, not too be too much of a Google fanboy, but I can't help but...
April 2, 2007 | 2 Comments
I just configured my computer to send and receive encrypted mail. My public key is...
March 29, 2007 | 3 Comments
Today I read a blog post by Aaron Swartz that struck me as being reminiscent...
February 24, 2007 | 4 Comments
I was spoiled in college. Our food service was ranked among the top ten in...
February 19, 2007 | 0 Comments
When you're a bit tired and have had some coffee, it's very easy to daze...
February 18, 2007 | 1 Comments
I was at the American Art Museum today and saw a bust of Albert Einstein....
January 23, 2007 | 0 Comments
It seems rare that aside from CSPAN and PBS you ever see a commercial-free speech...
January 21, 2007 | 3 Comments
My New Year's Resolution this year was to use Linux as my primary computing platform....
January 15, 2007 | 0 Comments
After a long hiatus, one of my favorite writers is back in action over at...
January 14, 2007 | 0 Comments
It's been said before, but having portable music always in your ears really adds a...
December 23, 2006 | 2 Comments
Back in Minnesota for the holidays, and what strikes me more than anything else is...
December 15, 2006 | 5 Comments
CNN recently aired two clips about Senator Barak Hussein Obama. These "reports" compare the Senator's...
December 10, 2006 | 1 Comments
Following the advice of my father, I have not installed Microsoft Office on my new...
November 20, 2006 | 0 Comments
My new favorite music player software is MusikCube. A simple, fast player without all the...
November 2, 2006 | 4 Comments
I have been walking to work every morning. Combined with a great south window in...
October 30, 2006 | 1 Comments
This weekend Rachel and I visited to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, one of his most...
October 24, 2006 | 0 Comments
Creating mailing lists with Mailman's default scripts can be a bit of a chore. It...
October 12, 2006 | 2 Comments
I heard today that snow was falling on Minnesota. In the past I have occasionally...
October 11, 2006 | 2 Comments
It is unfortunate the amount of comment spam that arrives unsolicited at websites that have...
September 25, 2006 | 3 Comments
Recently I have been receiving a lot of random phone calls from numbers I don't...
September 12, 2006 | 0 Comments
This new service aptly called Oh, don't forget... allows you to send yourself (or anyone...
September 5, 2006 | 1 Comments
The St. Olaf Wind Turbine is up! The turbine should provide about a third of...
August 25, 2006 | 0 Comments
It struck me today how similar the Gmail interface is to vi, the text editor...
August 24, 2006 | 0 Comments
According to this Op-Ed in the Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge", Wal-Mart's customers are receiving...
August 23, 2006 | 1 Comments
My new phone is a Motorola Slvr. I've been using the phone for about three...
August 21, 2006 | 2 Comments
It has been several weeks now since I moved to DC's Chinatown. It's great: a...
August 15, 2006 | 0 Comments
Pandora Internet Radio is really cool. You type in an artist or song that you...
July 16, 2006 | 6 Comments
I saw this in the Facebook Terms of Use:By posting Member Content to any part...
July 14, 2006 | 1 Comments
Linux is constantly proving its worth to me. A Linux server at my office has...
June 28, 2006 | 2 Comments
A couple days ago there was a major news story about a person who has,...
June 25, 2006 | 2 Comments
"Call me Ishmael." (11) "The path to my fixed purpose is laid...
June 15, 2006 | 0 Comments
Yes, I am watching you now. So is Google. So is the NSA. So is...
June 13, 2006 | 4 Comments
Ingredients:Trash canMailing tubeTapeCarboardAll-BranMouse ...
June 4, 2006 | 2 Comments
A couple of days ago I was watching video footage from a protest during the...
May 6, 2006 | 1 Comments
I've recently been reading and watching videos on the Edge, a website that attempts to...
April 30, 2006 | 3 Comments
I noted some observations using the 5/7/5 form. Botanic gardens: ...
April 19, 2006 | 3 Comments
There is an image gallery of some pictures from my trip to Australia. ...
April 7, 2006 | 3 Comments
I'm off to the Land Down Under for a few days to see my brother....
April 4, 2006 | 4 Comments
Bugs Bunny? I wish. No, I'm talking about bugs in the code...
March 21, 2006 | 3 Comments
Some time ago I discovered that I should be able to view datasource and component...
March 18, 2006 | 6 Comments
I have an old desktop computer on which I installed Fedora last year. I just...
March 16, 2006 | 2 Comments
I am convinced that system administrators are the guardians of modern culture. Without them, our...
March 11, 2006 | 4 Comments
My initial efforts to defeat the comment spam were quick and dirty and not very...
March 10, 2006 | 2 Comments
To whomever is posting spam advertising in the comments on this blog: please stop posting...
March 9, 2006 | 0 Comments
I am convinced that Emacs is the best general-purpose text-editing program. I was recently doing...
February 23, 2006 | 0 Comments
I was in Memphis last weekend, and man is that bbq good! Other highlights were...
February 11, 2006 | 8 Comments
I built a Lego iPod dock. And believe it or not,...
February 10, 2006 | 0 Comments
I've been working with Microsoft Publisher for several months to make name tags for people...
February 3, 2006 | 1 Comments
Unfortunately I have to go here because it is the only place on the web...
February 2, 2006 | 5 Comments
I bought a belt last summer at Target. It's now beginning to fall apart, and...
January 19, 2006 | 2 Comments
Here are two things that have been occupying my time and thoughts recently. ...
January 7, 2006 | 0 Comments
The St. Olaf web team posted their rationale behind the new look of the Olaf...
December 12, 2005 | 3 Comments
John Aho discusses lessons that Democrats in America can learn from the British Labour party:...
December 7, 2005 | 5 Comments
The St. Olaf Website (www.stolaf.edu) was recently redesigned. Congratulations to the web design and development...
November 28, 2005 | 4 Comments
Do you ever notice road signs? The green signs with mileages to cities down the...
November 10, 2005 | 1 Comments
These are kind of fun: Windows XP PowerToys. The Clear Type Tuner will beautify your...
November 1, 2005 | 7 Comments
Today I was at a workshop presented by Edward Tufte about visualizing information. I enjoyed...
October 27, 2005 | 1 Comments
My employer's new website launched today. I feel good. The site...
October 16, 2005 | 1 Comments
My cousin Nicholas Mueller has built a web site. Check it out at http://nick.muellershome.com/. More...
October 5, 2005 | 5 Comments
I've posted some sketches of headphones that I did during my sophomore year at St....
September 30, 2005 | 8 Comments
Have you heard of mouse gestures? (I promise I'll write about something not tech soon.)...
September 17, 2005 | 7 Comments
I recently came across a useful article about Windows keyboard shortcuts. In many situations, I...
September 12, 2005 | 3 Comments
One of my drawings was posted on the St. Olaf art department website. ...
September 5, 2005 | 0 Comments
Okay, so this is pretty neat: Ben Forta's CFDocs Google Talk Bot. Ben Forta is...
September 2, 2005 | 3 Comments
Before I start pondering a bit about web design, here are some fun links for...
August 13, 2005 | 1 Comments
Since it's been one full month since my last post, I really should add something...
July 14, 2005 | 3 Comments
Google has replaced my own capacity to remember things on the Internet and in my...
July 2, 2005 | 0 Comments
My first email account was with AOL. Today I wanted to look up an old...
June 28, 2005 | 6 Comments
What do you listen to? ...
June 25, 2005 | 0 Comments
You can now read the blogs that I read every day by visiting my public...
June 24, 2005 | 0 Comments
The Intelligent Design movement receives a slap in the face from the New Yorker:Biologists ......
June 14, 2005 | 1 Comments
Well, I'm writing this from my apartment in Washington, D.C. Not more than five blocks...
June 2, 2005 | 3 Comments
Last Sunday I graduated from St. Olaf College with majors in Computer Science and Studio...
May 23, 2005 | 5 Comments
Revenge of the Sith provoked awe and anger and sadness when I saw it the...
May 20, 2005 | 1 Comments
Last semester I was enrolled in an oil painting class. It was my first time...
May 7, 2005 | 0 Comments
Yesterday I presented posters about CPET and client/server application security at the annual St. Olaf...
May 6, 2005 | 0 Comments
It turns out that there is still a lot of interest in the Palantir 3D...
May 2, 2005 | 4 Comments
This past year, I have been working with Professor Olaf Hall-Holt and several other students...
April 21, 2005 | 1 Comments
Dear friends, You are hereby invited to the Senior Art Show...
April 15, 2005 | 3 Comments
It's been a while. To start the spring off right, I've posted...
March 9, 2005 | 0 Comments
Did you play with Legos as a kid? Then you might want to take a...
March 2, 2005 | 3 Comments
I'm not usually one for web comics, but the Bunny comic is pretty great....
February 24, 2005 | 4 Comments
I've compiled a list of Quick Searches that I like to use with Firefox. Maybe...
February 16, 2005 | 5 Comments
This guy is my new favorite artist. A brilliant sculptor from the British Isles, Andy...
February 9, 2005 | 6 Comments
I'm looking for some good books to read. As mentioned in the last post, I've...
February 8, 2005 | 0 Comments
Today was my first foray into Java GUI programming. It was quite fun, and I...
February 2, 2005 | 0 Comments
January has heaved its last, and I'm now relaxing in February's naive hope that spring...
January 26, 2005 | 3 Comments
I've been looking for a good alarm clock to play mp3s to wake me up...
January 17, 2005 | 0 Comments
The European Space Agency's Cassini-Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14. The ESA site...
January 16, 2005 | 0 Comments
My cousin recently directed me to Del.icio.us, a web site that provides "social bookmarking" services....
January 11, 2005 | 5 Comments
Here's something for you sink your teeth into: a dynamic Javascript Calendar. On the home...
December 17, 2004 | 3 Comments
I have just finished my computer graphics course, and have completed an online portfolio. Documentation,...
December 10, 2004 | 1 Comments
I recently came across this quote by William Kitteridge:We live in stories. What we are...
December 3, 2004 | 8 Comments
My friend's computer was recently attacked by a virus that she received while browsing the...
November 19, 2004 | 6 Comments
Today I went to the University of Minnesota with my graphics class and talked with...
November 14, 2004 | 0 Comments
(Three friends, at their reunion.) 1: What brilliant glass Of...
November 9, 2004 | 0 Comments
Today I installed Konfabulator, a wonderful piece of software that allows you to install "widgets"....
November 9, 2004 | 0 Comments
Ah! What bliss: this and this and this and this and so much more....
November 6, 2004 | 0 Comments
In a recent article for the Orion magazine, Wendell Berry writes an article about ecoonomic...
November 3, 2004 | 3 Comments
The campus is despondent. Students hug and cry and try to laugh. Professors lecture but...
November 2, 2004 | 5 Comments
You can now post comments to this site. Mock me at your leisure....
November 1, 2004 | 2 Comments
Within the past three days, my roommate and I have received at least six calls...
October 30, 2004 | 0 Comments
I have finally created an RSS feed for this site....
October 29, 2004 | 0 Comments
It has been many weeks since we've had a solid downpour. But today is the...
October 18, 2004 | 0 Comments
Sometimes web design is really fun. Here's the latest from my keyboard:St. Olaf Environmental Coalition....
October 14, 2004 | 0 Comments
I learned about three new things today:Quadriplegic man controls a computer with his mind. Certainly...
October 6, 2004 | 0 Comments
I recently started using Amazon's new web search, called A9. It uses the Google search...
September 24, 2004 | 0 Comments
Most of the programming I do for my classes is in C++. This is great...
September 17, 2004 | 0 Comments
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/...
September 16, 2004 | 1 Comments
Back to school and the time is flying by so quickly. My class schedule includes...
September 2, 2004 | 0 Comments
Four brightnecked clover wings Flicker in the hazy afternoon And float...
August 17, 2004 | 0 Comments
Recently I've encountered several sources that describe the power of evolutionary software. The book Emergence...
August 16, 2004 | 0 Comments
Last week I spent on the road with my Volvo in the glorious state of...
August 16, 2004 | 0 Comments
Sorry to those of you trying to access this site in Internet Explorer for the...
August 5, 2004 | 0 Comments
I've been thinking some about the my time in England. About the smell of the...
July 31, 2004 | 1 Comments
Yesterday was the last day of my summer job. I have been working on a...
July 29, 2004 | 0 Comments
I am a big fan of Star Wars. I just pre-ordered the original trilogy on...
July 19, 2004 | 0 Comments
If I were president of the United States, I would keep a blog....
July 14, 2004 | 0 Comments
He's brain-dead, I'm sure of it, The fox said, then smiled And picked...
July 13, 2004 | 0 Comments
I recently finished reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I was struck by the ambition and...
July 8, 2004 | 0 Comments
It seems to me that there are two ways of living in the world. One...
June 27, 2004 | 0 Comments
Ingredients:2 cups sugar½ cup milk¾ cup cocoa½ cup butter½ cup peanut butter3 ½ cups oats1...
June 22, 2004 | 0 Comments
Questions about the meaning of life seem to be quite abundant these days. My friends...
June 17, 2004 | 0 Comments
Yesterday I was with my friend Marta at the Walker sculpture garden in Minneapolis, home...
June 13, 2004 | 0 Comments
Today I saw a dragonfly lying on its back in the middle of an empty...
June 7, 2004 | 0 Comments
here the eyes squint and seem to say, we own knowledge and...
June 2, 2004 | 0 Comments
Yesterday was my first day at my summer job. I am doing research for the...
May 27, 2004 | 0 Comments
Cat 'n' Mouse, fiction from the New Yorker. Here is one of...
May 27, 2004 | 0 Comments
I was talking with my friend last night, and he commented that I use a...
May 26, 2004 | 0 Comments
Put a button like this on your site: Firefox buttons. ...
May 23, 2004 | 0 Comments
So much rain. It's been raining almost every day for the past week. My roommate...
May 13, 2004 | 0 Comments
Today I bought a Mozilla t-shirt. (It's the black one with the star.) ...
May 7, 2004 | 0 Comments
I'm at Kenneth's house. (He is a computer engineer and a good friend.) Kenneth's house...
April 24, 2004 | 0 Comments
This site just received a massive behind-the-scenes overhaul. It now checks out as valid XHTML...
April 20, 2004 | 0 Comments
I recently read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. This was a wonderful read, the best...
April 9, 2004 | 0 Comments
Woohoo! It's break time, but the weather is getting cold. Recent on...
April 2, 2004 | 0 Comments
Let them fear God and love their Abbot...
March 17, 2004 | 0 Comments
Spring Break is next week. I am excited for the chance to travel to Arizona...
March 12, 2004 | 0 Comments
Visit Italian Art 2004 to see pictures from my journey to Italy during January. I...
March 6, 2004 | 0 Comments
Some fun with sour milk. ...
March 5, 2004 | 0 Comments
Another six inches of snow fell this morning, and the campus is thick with the...
February 22, 2004 | 0 Comments
Academics have taken over my life once again. Art, computer science, theology. But I was...
February 3, 2004 | 0 Comments
This web site has moved and is now being hosted by Lunarpages. Great service so...
November 30, 2003 | 0 Comments
It's been far too long since the last update, so here it comes all at...
October 8, 2003 | 0 Comments
Well, folks, I finally made it to England. It's quite a nice place, aside from...
August 27, 2003 | 0 Comments
It appears that the summer months are approaching their inevitable end. Friends are packing their...
April 29, 2003 | 0 Comments
It's about time this site was compatible with Netscape & Mozilla! I've adjusted the stylesheets...
March 17, 2003 | 0 Comments
It is finally spring! It has reached 70 already in Minnesota and my fellow students...
February 16, 2003 | 0 Comments
Here's my final drawing from last semester. It is composed of...
January 25, 2003 | 0 Comments
Happy New Year to you all! I spent most of my January in Colorado, studying...
December 4, 2002 | 0 Comments
It's that time again. Yep, time for snow and Christmas lights and wishes of cocoa...