Corey's step into the world of Blog publishing.noreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:03:32 -0700Blogger http://www.blogger.com49125http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/en-usnoCorey's step into the world of Blog publishing.noreply@blogger.comhttp://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2010/12/loose-laptop-screen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:16:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-9157106836106747952I have a Dell Latitude D630 that I purchased a few years ago to use for my MBA. Over the past couple of months, the screen has started to wobble - when I open it up, the screen part of the clamshell wobbles. I remember this being a problem with a lot of older laptops - years ago. But this is the only one that has done it to me recently...It turns out this is quite an easy problem to solve!0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2010/02/saas-why-it-is-different.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:29:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-5076453375521384755Whoever coined the term "software as a service" is a genius. If you are providing some kind of service that uses software as its primary front-end, you're a SaaS provider. Your customers view what you provide as a service, and every time they pay that monthly bill, soon they will wonder what they're paying for every month (yeah, even if it is a "nominal" amount). Your business model might not 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-easter-egg.htmlgoogle techcrunch easteregg gphonenoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:40:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-9111629658851410136TechCrunch has published a new Google Easter Egg that is a countdown to 2010. Wow, neat! Why in the world would Google do this? Seems odd for them to care this much about the turn of the calendar......unless they're going to launch their Google Phone right about then...0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2009/05/microsoft-bing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sun, 31 May 2009 07:26:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-2544135223178291823BING?? bing?! What is bing? I'm not connecting with the brand. Oh well...If only it was as cool as pine (pine is not elm) or wine (wine is not an emulator) or GNU (GNU is not Unix) or LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)... all cool.maybe Bing (Bing Is Not Google)??huh.Pretty soon we'll all get to see.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2008/12/cloud-computing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:58:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-8009853358974958578We have been doing some work with Amazon Web Services, particularly the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) services. I'm quite impressed, and excited about what types of innovations cloud computing will bring us in the coming years.When we first started using EC2, all it really seemed like was a glorified co-located server. You could log in, set up Apache, run a web site, etc. In fact, it was kid 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2007/10/charge-your-ipod-and-still-listen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:45:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-6069972006003428300I've been doing a lot of homework lately, and my iPod always seems to be low on juice. Maybe that is what you get for buying refurbished (http://www.apple.com), but I'd still like to be able to listen to it whenever I'm reading cases, writing papers, etc. Since I usually have my trusty laptop, I'd like to be able to charge the iPod while I listen.I did a quick search, and there were plenty of 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2007/06/5-things-on-google-docs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:22:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-3511976215054671043Ran across this on the web... I think the original source is CNET.5 things you can do on Google Docs...My favorite is the ability to embed google searches in the spreadsheet. However, it is a little problematic, in that you can't do "spreadsheet" operations on your results. Look at my examples below. Also, when I tried googlesearch("united states"; "population"), I received back the 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2007/06/gmail-my-outlook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:28:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-6775305814811274092I'm a pack-rat when it comes to e-mail. Somewhere I have e-mail saved from 1992 from my VAX account from college. That's why I loved Gmail when it came out - tons of storage and an archive button... I got really hooked on the Archive button....so much so that I decided I needed one for my Outlook at work. Here is my code. I attached it to my archive button in the screenshot...----code starts 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2006/02/case-study-guy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:10:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-114045186203279668Hey! I'm in a case study!0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2006/01/little-buddy-taking-bath.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:57:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-113828745154728274 CIMG0186 Originally uploaded by coreyt. Here is Shore taking a bath.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/12/soleils-pictures.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:39:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-113393759435935975 FH000011 Originally uploaded by coreyt. ... she is getting quite good!0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/10/links-for-2005-10-09-delicious.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:51:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112895591151981718Links for 2005-10-09 [del.icio.us]: " The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security Interesting 'dumb ideas,' but it is a better read for the 'engineering' attitude CollaborativeRank -- del.icio.us search engine" So I'm testing Google's "Reader." Seems like a better interface than My Yahoo! so far. I like that you can export your list to OPML too, unlike My Yahoo. Anyway, this is just a test to0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/09/soleil-photographer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:55:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112715615966429098 PICT0006 Originally uploaded by coreyt. Soleil has discovered the joy of taking pictures. Here is her picture of Shore.She prefers the 35mm, but will settle for the $100 digital. Ruth and I prefer her to use the digital, if only for film and camera replacement costs.She seems to prefer natural light to flash, but will usually let the camera run on auto. The recharge-flash time seems very 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/09/our-brains-are-evolving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:36:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112655447925738217Interesting bit of news here. Our brains continue to evolve. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that not everyone has some of the genes that are believed to have evolved!Use the bottom link to read the full article:"Just as major environmental changes in the past favored the selection of genetic traits that increased survival skills, the pressures on gene selection today come from an 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/09/soleil-goes-to-school_09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:47:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112628803303132435 FH010025 Originally uploaded by coreyt. Well, today concludes the first full week of our daughter Soleil going to school. We DID decide to send her to the ABC International Montesorri school, and she seems to be having a great time.She, of course, looks adoreable in her uniform here.Good job Soleil! You CAN do it!0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/righteous.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:31:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112491192217376150This is an awesome post on Engadget. The ASCII art is worth the click alone.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-yawn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:59:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112489588882336190Well, Google has released their instant messenger. I hope trillian has a plugin soon. I guess that it is pretty close to Jabber. At any rate, I, being the good netizen I am, downloaded it and installed it:I guess I'm really more interested in them integrating it with Hello. Then getting Picassa and flickr (or their own photo sharing site) integrated. Although I'm sure the IM client is great, 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/backpack-basecamp-and-tiki.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:17:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112420595967082752So I have been a proponent of tikiwiki. A super-charged-with-features wiki. I use it for my website. However, lately I've been letting it die a slow death. Why?Well, for one, its really quite hard to use, except for the wiki part. The rest of it, I guess, it Web 1.0. Web 2.0 is here, and its cool. As I mentioned earlier, I'm on to flickr, del.icio.us (and myweb), blogger (which is 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/negative-information-how-can-we-even.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:59:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112388405670485039From Good Morning Silicon Valley:Many of you will swear you've already seen this phenomenon in your own lives, but apparently it can occur only on the quantum level ("quantum" being Latin for "everything you know is wrong ... and/or right ... or not"). The phenomenon is "negative information," and researcher Jonathan Oppenheim does a yeoman's job trying to explain it in terms you can almost wrap 0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-do-you-manage-empire-with-no.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:46:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112388359038839873This is a facinating discovery. Those baffling tangles of knotted strings discovered among Incan artifacts? Bureaucratic paperwork, apparently.The Incas didn't have a written language, yet they ruled most of South America. One of the greatest mysteries of the Incas has been what "khipu," basially knotted strings and rope were used for.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/argh-almost-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:45:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112377870650895967 PICT0001 Originally uploaded by coreyt. The flooring is back down. Well, the new flooring is down. Now, so I could save a couple of bucks, the baseboard needs to go back on. Wish me luck.One cool thing about flickr is the ability to add notes on the picture itself. Click on this one to get into the flickr interface and see what I mean.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/argh-continued.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:07:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112359647615363994 PICT0010 Originally uploaded by coreyt. So the floor has been pulled up, and the water mopped up. (There was more than we thought.) Next step was to use some (lots of) Tilex Mold and Mildew cleaner to clean the floor really well- we don't want either of those waiting around for next Summer.Then I setup a (new) dehumidifier to make sure there was really no moisture there... and finally I0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/ourhouse-nohouse-with-roads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:13:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112351402340187753 OurHouse-NoHouse with roads Originally uploaded by coreyt. On a lighter note, you can see what our development looked like before there were any houses.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/arrrgh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:10:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112351393938900401Well, as implied earlier, we had a problem with water. Turns out it made its way under the floor in the kitchen. And perhaps further. We're pulling up floorboards to find it all. Then it has to dry. Then we'll put down new floorboards. Ugh.0http://coreythompson.blogspot.com/2005/08/and-i-drive-pathfinder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Corey)Wed, 3 Aug 2005 06:32:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406835.post-112307604150837091An interesting new clip today mentions that men who have their masculinity challanged are more likely to want to drive SUVs (no other automobile was preferred like the SUV was), and they were more likely to suport the Iraq war."Those who had their masculinity threatened also said they felt more ashamed, guilty, upset and hostile than those whose masculinity was confirmed," quotes Yahoo.0