Reverse Engineering the Anova Precision Oven

I recently got an Anova Precision Oven, which I love. But what would make it even better is if I could control it from Home Assistant. Let’s dive in! While ...

Why is Tesla FSD afraid of the dark?

I’ve been lucky enough to have access to the FSD beta for a number of months. At first everything worked great but eventually I noticed that I was no longer ...

Getting an MJPEG stream from ADT CCTV cameras

It turns out that the previous owner of our house had several ADT NV214A video encoders installed to digitize the CCTV system. At first, I thought they’d end...

SmarterMeter v0.4.0 Released

This is a pretty major update as two significant things have changed relating to SmarterMeter. First Google PowerMeter no longer exists, therefore SmarterMet...

SmarterMeter and Google PowerMeter Part Ways

Earlier this year at Google IO, Google announced that Google PowerMeter would be retired but they didn’t give many specifics. They’ve now followed up with de...

SmarterMeter v0.3.3 Released

This is just a small update with two important bugfixes. The first bug prevented data from being sent to Google PowerMeter correctly and the second prevent e...

SmarterMeter v0.3.2 Released

Today I released SmarterMeter v0.3.2, which contained several small but important bug fixes. So upgrade when you get a chance. If you’re technically encline...

SmarterMeter v0.3.1 Released

Today I’m announcing the release of SmarterMeter v0.3.1. It’s the first release to include support for Windows. This now means that far more PG&E custome...

NSIS and Launch4J

Since I got SmarterMeter working in Windows in my last post, the next step was to make it easier to install. After searching for the best way to make an inst...

JRuby and Nokogiri

One of my goals this year for smartermeter is to make it usable on Windows. There are several ways to accomplish this but I chose to use JRuby and Swing (wit...

Brighter Planet Fellowship

So I was fortunate enough to be selected to become a Brighter Planet fellow for my work on smartermeter. Brighter Planet is a company that is committed to d...

PGE and Google Power Meter

So building on my smarterproject, Andrew Potter has released pge-to-google-powermeter, which takes the PG&E data and uploads it to Google Power meter. Th...

WebSockets & Stomp, the Real Realtime Web

So with HTML5 advancing and browsers starting to ship with WebSockets (Chrome 4+, Opera 10.60, Safari 5 and soon Firefox 4) it’s time to start thinking about...

Comcast IPV6

I got my invite to Comcast’s IPV6 trial today. I’ll be interested to see how they plan on handling dual v6/v4 stacks and whether they will forgo NATing compl...

libimobiledevice 1.0 & Transition

I started libiphone (which is now called imobiledevice) back in 2007 because I wanted to sync the contacts on my iPhone with my laptop. Since that time a tre...

iPhone Icecast from Rhythmbox

So I wanted to stream music from my laptop to a Bose iPod speaker set over wifi. It seemed like this should be simple right? Not really. Apparently Icecast...

Selenium IE7/8 in Vista/Windows 7

So after spending too many hours trying to get selenium to work in Windows Vista/Windows 7, it turns out that you must run the selenium server from an admini...

libiphone/ifuse 0.9.5

So it’s been quite a while since I first started this journey, but iPhone support in Linux has progressed to the point that you can sync your music and even ...

Google Chrome OS on Dell D600

So unless you have been hiding under a rock (in the online world) you’ve heard of Chrome OS, Google’s lightweight netbook operating system. Yesterday it was ...

VNC to OSX in Ubuntu

So I’ve had a Mac Mini for a while and I prefer to access it over VNC so I had been using xtightvncviewer. However it would occasionally not update parts of ...

Smartermeter - Read your SmartMeter

So I have to admit that I was excited when I found out that the house that we would be renting had a PG&E SmartMeter installed. For whatever reason I hap...

Tidying up

So I haven’t posted here in a really long time. And this blog has been feeling a bit neglected. I guess life has gotten the better of me. Lots of things hav...

iPhone Linux Syncing (with Conduit)

So the latest project I am working on is making conduit work with my iPhone, so I can sync my information in Linux. The project is pretty early on but it can...

One Year

So it’s crazy to think that it’s been a year since I moved to San Francisco, it really doesn’t seem to be that long ago. I guess now I am approaching the poi...

CSS Sprites

So if you are a web developer and haven’t heard of css sprites, you should check them out. While your at it you should probably checkout sass as well, it tak...

OLPC you make me sad

I am sorry that I ever gave you money (if I could I would take it back). You make me sad that you blame your troubles on Open Source.

What's Been Going On

So this blog has gotten quiet recently and Andy’s comment on my last post has prompted me to talk about what’s been going on in my life. Most of my time is ...

Don't Change Your iPhone's Root Password

Don’t change your iPhone’s root password. Just don’t. If you do you will have a phone that reboots in an infinite loop. And yes there are many places online ...

New Music

So my friend Sean has a brother named Chase who happens to plays the guitar. Chase also apparently has a MySpace page. You should check out “It’s Rough Havi...

RSS Applet 0.1

So I was thinking it would be cool to have a revolving ticker of Craigslist items on my taskbar. Since Ruby is my favorite language, I decided I would writ...

Arc & Ubuntu Gutsy

So I have played around a bit with Paul Graham’s new language arc. I wouldn’t go so far as it say that it’s really a new language but rather a new dialect of...

Dell Vostro 1400 & Ubuntu Gutsy

So this post is aimed at people who have a Dell Vostro 1400 and Ubuntu Gutsy installed. When I got my new laptop I noticed that whenever I hibernated that I...

Cold

So I am still sick. Not terribly exciting. Also the iPhone Dev wiki seems to be down (and has been for several days). I am wondering if Apple went after the...

Juno & Minutes to Midnight

So my new job has been going pretty well. My co-workers are awesome and I am starting to hit the groove with the technology. So that has put me in a pretty g...

Beatiful Beach

So I was lucky enough to walk around a beautiful beach today. I thought I would share.

Switching Jobs, Home and iFuse

So I have been holding off on saying this until everything was finalized but now that things have run their course, I am switching jobs. I left EmSense for a...

iPhone Linux Driver

So I have finally gotten all the information together that I have learned over the last few months and put together a project to build a filesystem driver fo...

Leet Building

Electronic Music

So I learned at my holiday party this weekend that one of my coworkers is really into creating electronic music. I had no idea. And since he was DJing I got ...

A Tree from My Walk

TJHSST. Go Colonials.

I am glad to report that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (my alma mater) finally has some well deserved national recognition. It is h...

Theme Update

So I am not sure how many people actually visit my blog to read it, but for those of you who do you will notice quite a facelift. It’s the first time I have ...

My New Laptop & Postie

So I finally got a computer to replace my aging four year old laptop which had been my main computer since moving to San Francisco (my desktop died a tragic ...

The Significance of JRuby 1.1

So JRuby is coming out with its 1.1 release relatively soon (it’s just a preview at the moment). I am really excited about it for one reason, the compilier. ...

Some Stuff

I had a grilled cheese sandwhich and soup for dinner. It was good. I saw American Gangster last night. It was pretty good. (Really great characters) Legisl...

Say No to Telecom Immunity

If you think it’s wrong that the government illegally recorded telephone conversations, sign the petition.

Bike Commuting

So I have been riding my bike to work everyday since I got it (~3 months ago). When I purchased the bike I wasn’t sure that it would really work out but deci...

iPhone Update and Today

So work on the iPhone driver has been stalled a bit. I took a serious look at getting around the SSL encryption but wasn’t able to easily bypass it. Basicall...

Good Day at Work

Today was a good day at work. I managed to complete a task ahead of time that I wasn’t even sure that I could complete in the scheduled time. Then I had a go...

Apple, Stanford and Updates

So I really should be better about updating my blog. Enough said there. I had my first performance review at work on Friday. It was good to hear feedback as...

iPhone Now Charges in Linux

Update: if you would like to sync music or contacts see this post. So I have had success getting the iPhone to charge when using Linux (I just had to figure...

iPhone Linux Support

Update: I have started a project to get the iPhone to work in Linux, read this post for more information. So, I recently got an iPhone and love it. However ...

Rock The Bells: Rage

So I got a chance to go to Rock the Bells in San Francisco. The real reason I ended up paying the absurd ticket price (thank you ticketmaster) is that I real...

Emsense Article

Hey if you want to find out more about where I work, check out our story on VentureBeat.

Racing

So on Monday of this week I went to the Jim Russell Test Drive, which is a crash course (fortunately not literally) racing school. When I got on the track fo...

Europe: Condensed.

Editor’s note: this post has been sitting in the queue for quite some time. Hopefully I will be more up to date in the future. So I promised that there woul...

Ohh America

This will be just a quick post. I am back in America, land of large cars, large portions and bottomless soda fountains. Ahh it’s good to be back. In order t...

Collaborate Resurrected

So it’s been a long time since I worked on Collaborate (second semester of freshman year, making it three years ago). However in all that time, nobody has co...

Graduated

So I have been really bad about updating recently. So this post is an attempt to catch up on everything. As for school, I finished up and graduated. The odd...

Planet Olin to Pass On

Everything comes to an end at some point. Since starting Planet Olin I have found it to be a great resource to find out what is going on with the people in t...

That Should Really Not Have Worked...

So today I was working on a group project in my embedded computing class. The goal of the project is to create an MP3 player directly from off-the-shelf comp...

Back from NC

So I just got back from my SCOPE trip to IBM at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The presentation went really well and the people who attended seem ...

OSS Progress

So today was a pretty productive day for my OSS project. I implemented the error function as well as a bilinear interpolation function. I spent more time tha...

Interesting Conspiracy Theory

While I have to admit that GOP’s Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed sounds a bit ridiculous on the surface. I think there might be enough evidence to support f...

On Virginia Tech and Life

It appears 230 people died in a suicide bombing yesterday in Baghdad. I bet you didn’t hear about it because the first half of the frontpage of the Post was ...

Marathon Monday

So this year I decided to go into Boston on Patriot’s day and see what the marathon was like near the finish. Although I was sad that I couldn’t participate ...

OSS Update

So it’s been quite a while since I have done an update about my OSS. Since my last update I have be doing alot of reading and a small amount of programming....

Vegas

Wow. Vegas is awesome. As soon as you get off of the airplane you are hit with an overwhelming attack of advertisements. After we got out of the airport (an...

Video Mosaics

Since the change of direction on my OSS I have narrowed my project to working on just one problem, video mosaics. I mentioned this problem in my last post (i...

Half Way Point

It has been a while since I made a personal post, probably due to the perfect storm of events that occurred two weeks ago. I took a red eye flight back on a ...

New OSS Direction

So I sat down with Mark to talk about my OSS on Friday. After telling him what I had been upto, he suggested that I take my OSS in a direction which interest...

Concentric Circles

So I found out why I couldn’t get concentric circles, it’s because OpenCV was removing them from the results list. After reading the source a bit I tweaked i...

Comparative Study of Hough Transform ...

During the time I spent today on my OSS, I read the “Comparative Study of Hough Transform Methods for Circle Finding”. In short it is an overview of Hough Tr...

Running Accident

So I twisted my ankle on Saturday while running. It ended with me falling into a frozen creek from 8ft above. Not exactly fun. I am back to walking at this ...

I Got My Book

So I got a copy of “Robot Vision” that I ordered a week ago. I opened it up and started pursuing the preface and the introduction. It seems pretty well writt...

Circles, Oh the Circles

So I had this idea in the shower this morning. What if I used concentric circle bulleyes (like on the UPS packages ) to locate targets within a scene. I know...

NASA Vision Workbench

So I spent my time today exploring NASA Vision Workbench, thanks to my friend Chris who pointed me in the right direction. NASA Vision Workbench is an Open ...

Cool Ideas and Open Source Software

Today I started out by looking at what free software existed in the machine vision world. It turns out there is quite alot of software out there which includ...

First OSS Post

So I am doing an Olin Self Study this semester which involves picking a technical topic, learning about it and producing a final report. For my OSS I have de...

Back in the Swing

So I haven’t updated in a while and you may have guessed from the lack of posts that I have returned to Olin (and you would be right). As usual things are ex...

Return to School

Yesterday was my mom’s birthday. We had planned to go out to dinner with my sister, her husband, my mom, my dad and me. Unfortunately the weather intervened ...

Old Friends

So I met a friend for lunch today. I had a blast catching up, talking about what he was up to, what I was up to and what the people we knew were up to. I rea...

Leaves

I raked alot of leaves today. I don’t like them. My house will never be crowded in with trees.

Old Music

So I have this Mini-Disc player/recorder (if you don’t know what I am talking about, do you remember the disk Neo was given at the very beginning of the Matr...

Blog Maintenance

So I started to wonder why I stopped getting comments a while back. I remembered hearing a few things about comments being broken and had never tried it unti...

RunLog

So since I am now planning on training for the Boston marathon, I decided I wanted to take full advantage of my Nike+ iPod. It is currently practically usele...

Marathon

So I am going to attempt the Boston Marathon this spring. You can check my progress here. Tonight I went out with a family friend and my father for dinner. ...

Sardines and Aquariums

So I visited the Monterey Aquarium when I was out in California last week. Something seemed wrong when I approached the building…“  Good thing I don’t” eat (...

Dead Laptop + More Dead Greenbacks

Yesterday was a sad day. My laptop kicked the bucket. When I say kick the bucket, I mean totally, utterly, no-dell-logo-on-boot dead. I called my good friend...

Christmas Redux

So I survived another Christmas season. I got many presents, ate many cookies and got to see most of my extended family over a three day period. (And I wonde...

Update

So it has been a while since I posted as I have been really busy. As a sign of that I am currently traveling to IBM Watson (for SCOPE) in a minivan and am us...

Good News

So I went to see the hand surgeon today and I got some good news. The issues I have been having with my hands isn’t serious. The doctor isn’t quite sure what...

A Low Point for the US

How do people sleep with themselves at night? Apparently our constituional values mean nothing. Congratulations Mr. Bush, you win but in my eyes you no long...

RSI

So I have RSI. Which is why I haven’t been posting. It’s been interesting learning to cope with it. If you have any suggestions leave me a comment. Hopefully...

Back on Land

I got back from the Cruise a few days ago but I forgot to write an update. It was a pretty sweet trip. We avoided the tropical depression Chris and got to v...

Back at Home - Yarr

So I flew home this morning. The funny thing about the security lines at airports is that the less time you leave to get through them, the longer that they t...

It's Live

The next iteration of Flagr is live. It’s over a month’s worth of work and comes complete with truly sweet maps. I think I am going to get something to eat ...

The Fourth

The fourth of July always brings division to my mind. I have nationalistic pride. I believe that America’s ability to innovate and remix has had a profound e...

Good End to a Good Day

It’s a good day when it Doesn’t rain and was supposed to. Flagr gets on the frontpage of digg and del.icio.us popular.

Saturday, Recap

Winding Staircase Met up with a high school friend on Saturady. After we finally tracked each other down, we went to the Boston Public Library as well as Em...

Alley Cut

Alley Cut A black white shot of an alley in Allston, MA. I almost got poured on while taking the shot. In my run back before the rain I managed to drop my...

Trapt

Trapt Finally got outside today and took some pictures. It’s the first time that I have done so since leaving for San Francisco. A little rusty but hopefu...

End of an Era

This last month has passed in a hurry. It feels like it was just yesterday that I got back to Boston. Over the last few weeks I have spent much of my time co...

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Good News

The best news is good news that you were suprised to hear. I happened to be talking to Cole while on my way to lunch on Saturday when he happened to mention ...

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New Apartment

So I moved into my new apartment in Allston this last week. I plan to be here over the summer. If you want to get a feel for the place, you can check out the...

Back at Home

Last Friday the lease on our apartment ran out so I am now back on the East Coast. Later this week I will embark on my quest to secure an apartment in Boston...

Bad Day

Do you ever have a day were nothing seems to go right? At all. Have you ever had two of them in a row? I am really hoping for a bright sunny day tomorrow.

Executive Summary

Had an awesome run to the Golden Gate Bridge Had a good ice cream sundae Created Flagrfox

More Features, Less Stress

Today was a pretty productive day. We pushed several new features (my favorite is the new explore mode). It was nice to have a solid goal in mind, make progr...

8 Days

I am horrible at updating people as to what I have been doing. I apologize. It feels like I live under more of a rock out here in San Francisco (no I don’t m...

Launch

After many late nights we finally released late last nighthttp://www.flagr.com. Go invite everyone you know. It is such a good feeling to finally be able t...

Good Day

I am having the time of my life in sunny San Francisco. I had an incredible dinner tonight. I still can’t believe what an amazing opportunity this has been f...

Back at Olin

So this last Thursday I came back to Olin to visit. (No I didn’t come to interview nor did I come to be re-admitted). Many people were quite surprised to see...

Many Long Nights

It feels good to finally publish something. I feel like I am going to collapse. Hopefully tomorrow will be a refreshing break.

Age

So I was at the deli counter today ordering some lunch meat. As I was standing there an older woman walked up next to me. The lady behind the counter asked i...

Where's the e?

I never knew that missing a vowel in a name could cause so much of a stir. In other news I completely hate IE. I spent 3 hours tracking down a javascript er...

Look at Flagr

The great part about the picture below is that I galanced at it yesterday and thought to myself, man I wish I could be on there. Apparently I should look har...

Hazy Monday

After seeing randomness this morning, it seems that Sean and Brian have beaten us to launching. Alas. Anyway the site looks great and I hope they keep it goi...

Long Time No Post

Wow it’s been quite a while since I last posted, over a week. Things have been even more intense here this past week. Last Sunday we went on an adventure to...

Planet Olin Reborn

So after some nudging by certain people in the community I have restarted Planet Olin. To mark the occasion I went ahead and bought http://www.planetolin.com...

Cool Friday

Last night we saw our first speaker at the first Y Combinator meeting, which was pretty cool. I have never heard such a story of determination in my life. I ...

In the Thick of It

So today, I got my haircut, ate the largest strawberry I have ever seen and found myself on the frontpage of Olin’s website. What a day. Other than that, I ...

Getting in the Zone

Well these last few days have gone quickly. Alot of coding. Alot of designing and some fun interspersed between those two activities. One good thing that has...

New Office Furniture

This last two days have been pretty productive, the data layer of our application is pretty solid and the layout is coming along. In order to break things u...

Day 3

So things have been happening quickly. Drew and Jon showed up yesterday to attend the first Y dinner. Before we left for dinner we had some crazy cell phone ...

First Day

Well I made it out to San Francisco. It was a bit rough getting up this morning at 4:46am but definitely worth it once I got here. The weather is beautiful, ...

Christmas and Getting Ready

This Christmas break has been an interesting one. In many ways it didn’t feel like Christmas. Sean’s post pretty much sums up initial reaction to getting hom...

Nearby

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Rejoicing in the Streets aka the Demise of the Patriot Act

That’s right, take that Patriot act. The US Senate on Friday blocked a final vote on renewal of the Patriot Act as senators reacted harshly to reports that ...

A Little Planet that ...

(for those unaware of Planet Olin you can find it here) What Planet Olin is:Planet Olin is a collection of personal Olin student blogs updated every half an...

Presentations

Today’s Discrete Math presentation went alot better than I expected. I was worried about not having enough content to fill 15 minutes but even the most prepa...

Update

Olin is on facebook, we are finally a real school. Been hearing alot of people stressing about the end of the semester. It is one of the most stressful time...

Christmas, Apartments and Gizmo

Christmas So I have been using Amazon a lot recently, trying to get some of my Christmas shopping out of the way. While browsing around I found a kitchen sin...

Flying Home

So I made it home in one piece tonight. Oddly enough a lot of stuff didn’t work out in my favor but it didn’t really phase me. The first sign of badness came...

Lawsuits

So I was reading my brother’s blog. He seems to have picked up on an interesting story. You can find the story of an absolutely absurd case at [WashingtonPo...

What exactly are you doing?

So I have been somewhat hesitant to talk about what I will be doing for the WFP. However now that we have an idea as to where we are going (and since people...

I'm going to California...

So its been hard to keep quiet about all of this but I am proud to say that I have been accepted to the Winter Founder’s Program run by the Y-Combinator. In ...

Halloween

Last Friday was an amazing night (after a less than amazing week). I was a bit stressed that I hadn’t prepared for Halloween until a couple of hours before t...

Winter...

Today was the first day that I had to wear my tights in order to run. It made me sad. I miss summer.

Parents

While I was on my run today, I ran into a puppy that looked exactly like my dog Ebony. I started to realize how much I really miss not having a little furry ...

20 Answers

Here are twenty random answers. Kinda like 20 questions but without the questions. Despite having owned two firebirds, I have received no speeding tickets...

The Final Frontier

As we continue to worry about terrorists and hurricanes few have noticed that we have some new friends in space . Its amazing to think that sputnik was such ...

Hindsight

So I was reading for HFID today and I ran across this: The contrast in our understanding before and after an event can be dramatic. The psychologyist Baruch...

Rain and Mud

Today I went to cross country practice, not really sure why I went but I felt like I should go. When I got over there it was raining lightly and the rest of ...

Penn State

So this past weekend I went down to State College, Pennsylvania for my friend Chase’s 21st. I had a blast. The trip got off to a somewhat rough start as Mass...

Rain & Rest

Yesterday’s run was awesome. I threw on my trusty running shoes and headed outside as the sky had just cleared. As I bent down to stretch, the heavens opened...

Hurricanes and Terrorists

As the last few weeks have been so busy, I have had only a few small glimpses of the outside world. Now that things have slowed down a bit here I have begun ...

Back to School

Well its been about two weeks since I last made an entry. As you may have guessed life has been somewhat hectic. I sold my old car, I was sad to see it go (I...

Day at The Ball Park

So on Wednesday night I went to see the nationals. I had a blast, it couldn’t have been a better day and I got to chill with my one of my long time friends f...

End of Summer

Too much has been going on. Today I had two buyers called about SWFT DRK (and a third emailed me). One person got immediately in their car and drove from Mar...

Coehesiveness

So I added my blog to the Olin Xanga Ring a while back because that seemed to be where everyone was. However I really don’t like xanga (too many reasons to l...

Putting Me To the Test

So I recently got a new car which I posted about a while ago. However it wasn’t until this week that I took it in to get an emissions inspection. For those o...

Long Summer Nights

If you live life undefeated, you haven’t risked enough. I’m in a somewhat artistic mood tonight. More to tell tomorrow.

Soccer Game

I went to a DC United game this afternoon. It was the first one that I have gone to. I was expecting a bit more of a serious game, instead it reminded me alo...

Chinese Food

I had some good fake Chinese food for dinner. Not usually a big fan but it was pretty good tonight. Work was pretty boring and going to the gym was uneventfu...

Minorities

There are few things in this world that anger me more than racism. I woke up this morning to find an article entitled The Quest sitting on my kitchen table. ...

A Few Days

Well the last few days have really raced by. This week at work I released a new version of the software that I am developing, other than that not much intere...

And From The Ashes

A Firebird Formula arises. After the disappointment on Friday, it seems that chance finally smiled at me today (after waiting all summer plus Friday). Aroun...

2020 Retrospect

layout: post title: 20/20 Retrospect wordpress_id: 142 wordpress_url: http://matt.colyer.name/2005/07/29/2020-retrospect/ —I have been looking rabidly all s...

Amazing

Sorry to the people who have left comments recently, I didn’t realize that I had to approve the comments. Well it seems that I have been a slacker in my blo...

Separation of Church and State

From NPR:A judge in North Carolina is refusing to allow Muslim witnesses to be sworn in with a Quran. North Carolina law states that an oath must be taken wi...

Fourth of July

I ended up watching this movie called The Siege on Wednesday. The movie is about several Islamic terrorist cells which effectively shutdown New York City thr...

Email at Olin

If you were able to visit my Expo project this year you know that I am interested in visualizations. As I presented the visualizations, peoples’ reactions to...

Projects

I added a projects page to my site. You can find about the random cool things that I do there. The first is a mod_auth_user_dir Tutorial for Ubuntu Hoary -...

Old Friends

I went to a high school buddy’s suprise birthday party yesterday (you know the kinda party that you had when mom baked your cake). The suprise didn’t work ou...

Self Entitlement

It occurred to me the other day on the way to the Men’s room at work that society’s value system is less than logical. The reason this occured on my trip to ...

Cars

Well I have been searching for a new car along with my brother. Unfortunately Sean beat me to the punch and bought a car last week. He is now the proud owner...

Dear Mr. President

Amnesty accuses US over ‘torture’ Bush says Amnesty report ‘absurd’ White House Tries to Deflect Quran Abuse Report Hrm bit of a tight position aren...

Happiness

All classy beer comericials (that means any beer commercials without half naked women in them) have one thing in common. They feature a group of people which...

Summer of Code

During this summer I propose to implement a rudimentary version of the GOCollab initiative for the Abiword/GNOME group. GOCollab stands for GNOME Office Coll...

Work, Bikes and Cars

When I arrived at work this morning I had to unpack my cube since a large pile of equipment and boxes had taken up residence there. After removing the stuff,...

Fun

Where did all the ninjas go?. That is all.

The week in review

Well its good to be home again. Although like many fellow Oliners I find myself unable to stop working. The only difference now is that I work on what I want...

Drive Home

Yesterday I left Olin around 3pm, due to my bad planning. Somehow I managed to drive around Needham and Wellsley until 4pm. After that I only stopped for a M...

Happiness

Friday was simply amazing. After finishing my last final around 3pm, I headed over to see the carnival starting. Since things weren’t really happening I deci...

Long days

Well I finished my Error Control Codes test yesterday and my presentation today. If you are interested in convolutional codes you can check out my presentat...

Our Turn to Represent

Sneak preview of my Frankly Speaking article. One of the reasons that I came to Olin was to build a new college. However this college was to be no ordinary...

Harbor Cruise

Last night was the harbor cruise. I had a ton of fun. The weather is not quite what I imagined but the dancing was better than I thought it would be. I think...

Truth

While I was reading through my daily set of blogs I found this interesting link about truth. I find that I struggle with the truth frequently. For me it is a...

Osama

In a news article that seems to come straight from a movie plot line, the CIA told their crack team to assinate Osama. Apparently they failed. I am pretty su...

Photo Expedition

This weekend I went out with Wurtz to get some pictures of the coast. We left at 4 on Friday and got back on Saturday afternoon. The coolest part of the trip...

Printers are Bad

Okay so today I wanted to print out 3 copies of a 7 page paper. Not that uncommon of a task, right? I mean you have to print out the TPS reports for the week...

Environment

Seeing as last Friday was earth day I have thought a bit about the environment as of late. Today I saw this article by Steward Brand. The article is from the...

Collecting One's Self

Today was a pretty average Monday. I still feel uncollected from this weekend. Tonight I managed to clean up my inbox and get my priorities straight. I am fe...

Sunday

It started off as a cold rainy Sunday morning. As I walked to the dining hall I realized that I had a meeting during the time I would usually go to the mass....

Google Maps

So I jumped on the bandwagon of Google map hacking. You can see the results below. I was truly impressed out how easy it was to get it working. The best part...

Group Work

Over this last semester I have noticed certain truths about course related group work. Many times, the professors ask us to choose project groups based on th...

Warm Weather

Today’s high was 87 degrees. It was a good Wednesday. My summer plans seem to be coming together. There is not much busy work to complete and I feel like I a...

Tanstafl

The dean of faculty recently sent out an article from the New York Times entitled It’s a Flat World, After All. Use BugMeNot to read it if you don’t feel li...

Coding

Today was the first day that I seriously worked on coding in a long, long time. It felt so good. The coding wasn’t difficult in any sense of the word but it ...

Snow in April

As I was walking back from the gym, I saw a leaf cross my path. Yet this leaf was no ordinary leaf. It skittered across the ground making a scratching sound,...

Standard

Today was generic. I woke up refreshed. Nothing stood out except for a loud jet passing over in the afternoon. I had a good time in UOCD this morning. I felt...

Safety First

This is a more of a test of Pictpress than anything else. Always remember to wear your safety glasses when doing dangerous upgrades!

ACL & Terminal

I worked on the ACL machines quite a bit yesterday. Hopefully the lab will be ready soon and I can post my code to the world. Slightly unrelated, two of the ...

Completion

Today I completed my massive Error Control Codes assignment. I stayed up until 2 am for the last two days working on the same assignment. I don’t feel that t...

Equality

I used to associate community service with service for those who had fewer opportunities. I thought it was vital that the difference between level of opportu...

Sunny

Today was sunny and nice. After taking a two hour long test, I went outside and ran to the aquaduct. It feels like it is finally spring here. After these las...

PIC 18F2455

I spent several hours debugging my PIC18F2455 with an ICD2. To most PIC programmers out there this would mean that I actually used the in-circuit debugger bu...

Move

Once again it has been too long. I stopped updating as the system running my old blog was starting to show it’s lack of features. I am still impressed with h...

Back to the Grind

I had a total blast this weekend. My friends kidnapped me for my birthday this weekend and we went up to New Hampshire. There was a really awesome frozen lak...

Anna's Taqueria

So I went out with Sean, Lauren and Lara tonight for burritos at Anna’s Taqueria. It is a pretty good really cheap texmex restaurant. I also did an Ubuntu in...

Too Busy

Well I have been doing a poor job of attempting to post everyday but all I can do is continue to try. What I really need is a specific chunk of time set asid...

What a weekend

I went out on Friday night to see Ong-bak, a pretty crazy martial arts movie. I am not usually one for martial art movies but when the Wu Tang Clan endorsed,...

In Passing

Things have been busy. It started last week when I left school to go to my grandmother’s funeral. There is something about traveling large distances that mak...

Monday

Today was a pretty usual Monday. I found out that I will be working on welders as a user group for my design project as well. I also found out that I will be...

Productive Day

I managed to not get distracted today and got almost done that I set out to finish. That makes me happy. It makes me unhappy that we spent two hours on a mat...

Door handles

Last night I broke off my door handle to my car while I tried to open it from the inside. I was quite suprised when I broke it off because I didn’t think tha...

Long Friday

I didn’t get out of class/commitments until 5pm. Shortly after that I left to go the Walmart and get off campus. Lara and I ended up driving for quite a whil...

Snow

Two nights ago I went snowboarding up here on a whim. We left in the afternoon and boarded till 10pm. It was such a blast. Traffic was kinda bad getting ther...

Return

Well I managed to arrive at Olin in one piece with my car intact. I am excited to be back. Its unforunately that alot of my friends are still missing (silly ...

Drive

Well tomorrow I leave home bright and early for snowy Boston. Hopefully the trip will be uneventful. This break has been good to me. I have accomplished pret...

Snow Storm

Well not too much exciting happened today. It was supposed to be a large snow storm here but it didn’t amount to much more than two inches. The one thing tha...

And So Begins Another Four Years

I was sad to see the inauguration today. I just pray that we can’t screw up as badly as we have the last four years. To top it off I watched a special titled...

Thin Crust

Tonight I cooked pizza for the family. I experimented by making a pizza with a really thin crust. Suprisingly, it turned out the way I wanted it to. The sauc...

Wine

Tonight I mostly played with Wine, an emulator for Windows software in Linux. It has progressed quite a bit from the last time that I used it. I am now able ...

Conversion

Last night and tonight I played Halo 2 with my little brother. We are playing through the missions cooperatively on normal difficulty, which is pretty fun. S...

New Resolution

This year I have made a new resolution, I am going to write an entry five days a week and make quick piece of art along with it. I have decided to start toda...

Warm Snow

This morning was great, my 8am class was canceled (due to a meeting that the professor had to attend). Unfortunately we go two assignments due Friday over th...

Success

I finally got the A/D conversion working on my USB device for project class. It was a single line of code that had me stumped for three days. If the code had...

Tomboy

I finally got a Debian package of Tomboy. I am having fun learning how to effectively use it to manage my busy life. I also got a chance to play with Ubuntu ...

Long Weekend

I had a really great weekend. I was able to chill around campus, get homework done and go to the GNOME Conference. I learned a bit about upcoming technologie...

My Water Pump

After finding out last week that my car’s water pump decided to head towards the grave, I finally got to getting most of the repair done today. It wasn’t eas...

Where did it go?

I went to quite a few meetings today. Usually Wednesdays are my free days but it didn’t really feel like that today. The run with Babson XC team was okay, it...

Good Times

Tonight I finally got around to posting a bunch of my graphics work and photography on a wall of my dorm room. The place looks a little less sterile now but ...

A Productive Day

I was able to get a fair amount of work done today. This morning I started working on my math homework and got a fair amount of it completed. So I should be ...

Relaxing day

Since I don’t have class on Wednesdays, today was a rather relaxing. After breakfast I worked on cleaning spyware off of laptop for a friend of NOTE. When I ...

Camping

The camping trip was a lot of fun. The car ride was a bit long (four hours) but I got a chance to sleep, do some homework and meet some new people. The camps...

Indian Food

Tonight I got Indian for dinner after figuring out that my car is leaking gasoline. After that I wen to the Knight dance, which totally rocked. It was one of...

Back

Well I made it back to Olin. I haven’t blogged in a while becuase I have been so busy. I had a great time crusing the Caribbean but I am glad to be back at O...

A Break

This summer has been great. That sentence just doesn’t describe it. It has been awesome. I have gotten a chance to go sailing, catch up with old friends, han...

Day of Purchases

I am waiting for my dvd copy to finish so that I can watch this movie tomorrow and my brother can return it to the store. I wish I had had the time to watch ...

Whirlwind Launched

After much hard work I am finally able to debut the redesign of my site. As you can see there is alot of missing information. What you can’t see is that the ...

Warped Tour

I got back from Warped Tour tonight. It was great. I had alot of fun hanging out with some of my old high school friends as well as my brother. Anti-Flag had...

Finished Layout

I finished connecting the layout to the backend. I have to write some of the randomizing functions to pull in other information but it should be fairly simpl...

Web Design

I have completed the layout for the new site. I need to clean it up, validate it, optimize it, attach a backend, port my existing entries and then upload it ...

Web Design

I have completed the layout for the new site. I need to clean it up, validate it, optimize it, attach a backend, port my existing entries and then upload it ...

Spin

Well today was somewhat productive. I returned the tools to the Sears store that I didn’t use while changing my breaks yesterday. I also purchased a D-Link U...

Whirlwind

I got back from the beach with Lara’s family yesterday. I had a great time down in Wilmington. The water was warm and everyday it was sunny. I got a chance t...

Return

I have returned home from Camp Sea Gull. While at camp I got a chance to be outside all day, tan and sail. There were times that were not as much fun (just a...

Home

Yesterday was a totally sweet day. I saw Paparoach, P.O.D, The Offspring and Jimmie’s Chicken Shack in addition to a great many other bands at the Hfstival. ...

Home

I made it home after a lengthy drive home from Massachusettes. I have been mostly tying up loose ends. My car is happy to be paid attention to once again. My...

One Left.

I have my Linear Algebra final left. That is it. Then I will be done with my freshman year. Kinda a scary thought. Its been a great experience, however, time...

Finals

Wow. I haven’t updated this in a while. My life has been owned by work. Last week was a week of final projects and more of my projects than I care to mention...

Homework

I got alot of stuff finished today that I was hoping to. However there is still more to do. After Tuesday things should get better.

Slurpee

I went running for fourty-five minutes today. It was great. I was hot and sweaty. Then I went to the 711 and got a slurpee. I know that you aren’t suppose to...

Freedom

Last day of classes was yesterday. Now I have to finish all the outstanding projects and all outstanding commitments. I am not sure if that is better or wors...

Class Elections

Well I tried something different, I ran for class representative. I don’t think I have ever run for an elected position before. Mostly because I don’t like d...

Whoa

Wow. It has been a long time since I have written an entry. My school work has consumed me. I also as of recent have begun heavy work on libcoaster. I made s...

Easter

Today is Easter as I am sure everyone knows. I was fortunate enough to have some Easter candy sent to me from my parents and Grandma. Now I just have to find...

Summer Wishes

Today I thought alot about the summer. I am working on applications to two different jobs. Right now I am torn between them. I can’t decide which I want to ...

Movies

Not a whole lot going on today. I got my AED certification and did some homework. I also went to see Hell Boy with some people. It was a fun movie but I can’...

Rainy Days

It has been raining for the last three days. It is suppose to rain tomorrow. I hope sometime soon the sun will shine. I strained my ankle on Tuesday playing...

Today

Well I didn’t get too much productive work done today. However I got a really sweet boot logo for my Debian image. The laptop image is coming along pretty we...

Break

Well I am back from break. I had a great time in Virginia, but it wasn’t as warm as I would have liked. There are only six more weeks of classes, both a good...

Work

Today was good. One professor gave us an extension for homework so that I don’t have to kill myself before break. That was so unexpected and sweet. Unfortun...

School Work

Only three more days until break. I am not sure if I am going to make it. I was happy that my patch for libcoaster got merged today. The first real patch tha...

Candidates Weekend

It is the weekend once again, only this time with candidates. I have met a few pretty cool ones. I remember going through this a year ago, hopefully they wil...

Work Ahead

Today I got a bit ahead in work which was nice. I should probably have done a bit more but there is no end to that battle. The highlight of the day was seein...

Candidates Weekend II

This weekend was candidates weekend number two. This place goes absolutely nuts, the only thing I can compare it to is the final lap of a mile. Everyone just...

Work

Life is so fast. I think alot about how I work hard only because I have always worked hard. I realize that I am not really taking these classes because I hav...

Should get this together

I really should blog more often. I am really going to make an attempt to get into a rhythm. This weekend was great. We had the formal on Friday night. It wa...

The week in short

I need to get into more of a routine about blogging. Thursdays are the fullest day of the week class wise. I have three classes. Today I opted to take an ex...

Well...

This week has been a bit crazy. Yesterday I spent about five hours troubleshooting my desktop. It had been really unstable and I couldn’t figure out why. I h...

Busy...

I got some stuff accomplished today. I got a job on campus doing web site content work (I don’t have to commute and the time commitment is very low). I also ...

Shifting back

Today I got alot of stuff done that needed to be done. I am starting to transition back into a routine. I was able to go for a brief run today. However, the ...

Finally...

After spending many hours I finally completed my modifications to the Pivot System so that gnome-blog may post to it. The code is really just a giant hack, h...