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What the candidates are reading

Peter — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:15:53 +0000

This jumped up on google.com a bit ago…a link to what Barack Obama and John McCain are reading. I wasn’t surprised by their lists.

Barack:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16774216154071822567

McCain:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00430365334900592587

To me, DailyKOS is like DailyPOS and Huffington Post is just plain garbage. I won’t even link to them.

I was glad to see that McCain read The Drudge Report, FoxNews, and JibJab!

Mac OS X Approaches 8% Market Share

Peter — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:30:17 +0000

A few years ago, while in business school, we wrote a paper on Apple’s growth and their opportunity to take their 3-4% market share and turn it into a double digit market share. A few years later (now), it seems they are getting there. The popularity of their Intel-based MacBook Pros and and MacBooks has really made their climb possible.

You can read more about this at ArsTechnica.

Your vs You’re

Peter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:27:12 +0000

I can’t believe this. I’m having an adult (at least I think it’s an educated adult I’m talking to) conversation with my friend from high school. I’ll leave his name out to save him embarrassment.

My friend:

I’ll take it off your bill! Your in BYATCH!!!

Me:

And it’s “you’re” in.

My friend:

Nope, what country did you grow up in?

Me:

Are you retarded? When you say “your in”, that means my “in” is ???

When I say “you’re in”, I am saying “you are in”.

Where did you go to college? Oh right…. Geeeez.

My friend:

I believe you are the retarded one. You should learn to speak English like the rest of the country!

This had me ROFLing!!!

Peter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:00:35 +0000

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

You’d have to be a real geek to get this one. Thanks to Joe for showing me this. I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes.

Post from iPhone

Peter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:57:25 +0000

As I sit here trying to fix this computer that has the buritos and XP Security Center, I figures I’d try this out.

Benjamin and I are famous!!!

Peter — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:50:13 +0000

I’ve been meaning to post this on my blog, but had forgotten to do so as I emailed it out to a handful of friends.

Here is the story:

Someone who works at a University in Eastern Washington was reading the CNN/Money article about the top 100 places to live in 2008.

He went here: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL2672818.html and saw my picture and remembered meeting me and remembered that I worked at WSU. He sent an email to the general financial aid e-mail address asking if anyone knew who the man in the picture was.

Best places to live 2008 - Shelby, MI - from MONEY Magazine

TinyURLs adds custom URLs

Peter — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:35:02 +0000

I used this the other day when I sent Alex a link. Nice to read about it a few days later!

TinyURL finally adds vanity URLs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

I wish I had a connection this fast!

Peter — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:04:58 +0000

Paul Stamatiou points out that his internet connection was actually being maxed out with using 802.11g. He had to upgrade his network to 802.11n to get the full throughput his internet service provider offered.

Maybe Comcast will get us DOCSIS 3.0 pretty soon so we can at least have 30Mbit/s connectivity.

His connection speed:

Read his post, link is below:

My Internet Connection Maxed Out 802.11g - PaulStamatiou.com

I love Firefox

Peter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:30:16 +0000

Good to see that the folks at Mozilla have made great strides to make Firefox a fantastic browser when it comes to memory management. It used to be that Firefox was a nasty memory pig.

Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison

My first HDR image.

Peter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:55:26 +0000

I have been fascinated by HDR images I’ve seen over there years, and I’ve always wanted to try to create some myself. This one, I took with my handy-dandy Canon SD1000. I just used exposure compensation by putting the camera in manual mode and mapping the print button to the exposure controls. I took (5) images at -2, -1, 0, +1, and +2 EV and used HDR Soft’s Photomatix Pro 2.5.4 on the Mac (PC version exists as well).

One of the tutorials I’ve read is this one, which goes through the process and has some dazzling images to feast your eyes upon as well. Here is another tutorial.