Ravings of a Madman

Random musings, rants and links. Of a madman.

Archive for October, 2006


Naps = good

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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I can sleep when I’m dead. I’ll just take a nap for now.

#(*&@ Windows tray icons

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
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So, just a quick post about a problem I was having today that I was able to finally fix after alot of searching. The problem is this: occasionally, without warning and without a clear rhyme or reason most of my icons would disappear from my windows tray. I say most, because a few of them [...]

Real-estate you say?

Saturday, October 14th, 2006
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I just found an incredible tool for exploring home prices for a geographical area, along with data on recent sales, google map mashups, Microsoft Virtual earth Bird’s eye views of the houses, and tracking for house prices for zip codes, cities and states. Step one: Visit Zillow. Step two: Find horribly undervalued homes. Step three: [...]

Thought of the day

Friday, October 13th, 2006
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates 399 B.C. We can all do something to improve our life and the lives around us.

Yahoo! Time Capsule

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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Several reasons why I like this: It’s a great way to blindly waste some time. It shows a slice of the world. Specifically, it shows what the world looks like through other peoples eyes. It’s a great example of what you can do in Flash. Go check it out. The whole thing of beaming it [...]

Some Firefox add-ons

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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Mmm, the smell of jet fuel in the morning.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
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Just read a great article on World Hum titled Fueling Desire. I really related to it. There is something about traveling that I really enjoy, and it isn’t just getting to the place where I’m going – it’s the actual act of traveling there that I’m hooked on. The smell of jet fuel brings me [...]

Free science video lectures

Sunday, October 1st, 2006
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I found a few gems in here, but depending on your interests in science and computers you may find more. This blog post has a listing of tons of different computer science lectures available on-line in video format, covering things from algorithm theory to basic computer programming structure. It’s listed by subject, and it’s mostly [...]