tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:24:56 +0000If you can find any logic to my posts, please let me know.http://nickc321.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)Blogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-1898132592802637445Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:56:00 +00002009-11-15T09:30:57.740-05:00question reading sharingWhile I fully agree that basically everything you read in a print journal is available online, there is something I just like about reading magazine and books. Last night I was reading the slew of articles in the current issue of Forbes about Steve Jobs being the CEO of the decade (not hear to discuss the topic, just the physical media), and this morning I was reading articles in the current http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/8mJ5vwX0Phk/sharing-print-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/8mJ5vwX0Phk" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharing-print-media.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2789110047077602878Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:14:00 +00002009-11-09T22:18:43.306-05:00MacPortssysadminprogrammingmacNot much of an actual blog post as much as a reminder list for myself when it comes to setting up a new mac for developing code for science. A while back I posted an entry about selecting between MacPorts and Fink (link) so I won't discuss that here... bottom line is that they are both great and both work, it mostly depends on which you are more comfortable with and secondly specific individual http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/MVwgDQaOs1Q/macports-for-weather-and-science.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/MVwgDQaOs1Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/11/macports-for-weather-and-science.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-3658095494221242607Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:15:00 +00002009-10-13T20:17:26.415-04:00gadgetsg1androidA little over a month and half or so ago I wrote about switching from the JesusFreke Android Mods to the CyanogenMod (previous post). Shortly after that the Android community had its first scuffle with Google. When I initially switched to the CyanogenMod, I opted to stay with the 'stable' build, but as soon as I heard that Cyanogen was going to include Donut(1.6) in his experimental builds I had http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/SKf9ps5I1QM/latest-updates-to-my-g1-moved-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/SKf9ps5I1QM" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/10/latest-updates-to-my-g1-moved-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2933259261304400886Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:42:00 +00002009-10-07T09:42:01.712-04:00mbagmatSo a few weeks ago, I wrote about about possibly doing an MBA. So on Monday I took the GMAT. Lets put it this way... I did better than my practice exams, but I didn't do 'great' but I didn't do bad. I did well enough I think to get into an MBA program, but whether or not I did good enough to score decent funding is still a question. So whats next? The GMAT is out of the way next step, select http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/AGmHDEI2cPE/next-step-towards-mba-gmat-and-forward.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/AGmHDEI2cPE" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/10/next-step-towards-mba-gmat-and-forward.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-7315544256754049036Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:45:00 +00002009-09-22T11:45:27.813-04:00linuxtipsWell I've been using Linux/UNIX a long time. I've been playing with cshrc, bashrc and profile files for a while to, but for the first time, today I stumbled across an interesting directory, the '/etc/profile.d' directory. Like all '.d' directories in the 'etc' directory this is a directory to put additional configuration files. For sh-style shells (sh, bash...) /etc/profile.d/*.sh are read and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/LxMceW1grfQ/stumbling-into-tips-etcprofiled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/LxMceW1grfQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/09/stumbling-into-tips-etcprofiled.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-7064918823015454260Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:16:00 +00002009-08-29T21:39:36.345-04:00mbagmatThis past May, Lauren completed her MBA program at Georgetown. She did amazing and also found a great job with Deloitte Consulting. We then spent the summer all over the place. We spend a month in India. Then 4th of July in Rochester for a wedding of a friend of Lauren's from high school. Next off to Atlantic City and Cliffside NJ to spend time with Lauren's grandparents. And then off to Miami http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/TuO4xSsRJLM/starting-road-to-possible-mba.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/TuO4xSsRJLM" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/08/starting-road-to-possible-mba.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-8358586772802351814Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:30:00 +00002009-08-25T11:30:41.178-04:00gadgetsg1androidWell everybody knows my favorite gadget is my G1. I ordered it back in September, about 1hr after the release event. I was blogging about it almost immediately: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2008/10/day-15-with-my.html . I've been twittering about it and from it too. So if you've been following my latest twits... for the last few days I've been looking at modding my G1 (again). When http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/bp_9MhZqLCI/updates-to-my-g1-cyanogen-mod-and-apps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/bp_9MhZqLCI" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/08/updates-to-my-g1-cyanogen-mod-and-apps.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-6000357559315911393Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:21:00 +00002009-07-24T15:25:13.960-04:00programmingmathI love math... programming it is even more fun, then mixing integer math with decimal (floating point) math.... even more fun:In [90]: 26*.25 + 18*.75Out[90]: 20.0In [91]: 26/4 + 18*3/4Out[91]: 19In [92]: 18*3/4Out[92]: 13In [93]: 18.0*3/4Out[93]: 13.5In [94]: 26.0/4 + 18.0*3/4Out[94]: 20.0pesky '.0'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/GU6HW0fUADA/when-precision-bites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/GU6HW0fUADA" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/07/when-precision-bites.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-3721607383251317861Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:03:00 +00002009-07-24T14:03:20.100-04:00programmingWell I'm working on some pseudo-code.... Personally I really like switch/case statements, but unfortunately they are not available in all languages, plus they aren't always useful for overlapping conditions. So for this instance, I have a series of '<' '>' conditions that overlap. I can easily just do it with a series of 'IF' statements and not use any 'ELSE' statements, but that mean that you http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/0eeP1Qo-T0Y/to-nest-or-not-to-nest-and-how-many.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/0eeP1Qo-T0Y" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/07/to-nest-or-not-to-nest-and-how-many.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-6086016148668094720Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:44:00 +00002009-07-23T10:56:53.003-04:00dellphotoswtfAt work we recently received some new Dell Nseries machines and were mystified. Looks like a lot design work went into making a piece of junk to go into a pointless slot.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/un-yMjPEc20/wtf-anybody-know-what-this-dell-part-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/un-yMjPEc20" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/07/wtf-anybody-know-what-this-dell-part-is.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-3218038579888031134Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:11:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:40.709-04:00g1androidEverybody, well most everybody knows I have an Android-based HTC G1 (Dream), but it you check the archives, I rarely write about it here on the this blog. I from time to time write posts over at 'PalmAddicts' about my G1 and apps and such, but I felt like writing a post on my blog and I came across this nifty little app called TasKiller. TasKiller is great and more importantly simple and it http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/VMriBkRX2JE/taskiller-for-android.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/VMriBkRX2JE" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/07/taskiller-for-android.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-991385358406921136Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:31:00 +00002009-06-30T12:33:39.185-04:00socialweb2.0Not that I ever really used it, but bye. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yahoo! 360° <yahoo@email.yahoo-inc.com> Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:19 PM Subject: Final Notice: Yahoo! 360° Is Closing--Action Required Dear Yahoo! 360° customer, Ðể đọc bằng tiếng Việt, xin vui lòng nhấp vào đường link cuối trang. On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and yourhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/QGQ4txCJ_H4/fwd-final-notice-yahoo-360-is-closing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/QGQ4txCJ_H4" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/06/fwd-final-notice-yahoo-360-is-closing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-3421694139792804360Fri, 29 May 2009 02:12:00 +00002009-05-28T22:14:00.135-04:00Well most blogging services (free or not) have multiple methods of blogging on the go. Blogger (the host of this blog and the combined <href= http://laurenandnick.blogspot.com >blog of my wife and I</a>) has 2 methods of posting on the go. The primary method is to send text messages via SMS/MMS, but this can get costly on a long international vacation, and the other is via email. Email is greathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/iD4reLteEZs/blogging-on-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/iD4reLteEZs" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/05/blogging-on-go.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-8439862303841535816Fri, 22 May 2009 05:17:00 +00002009-07-24T15:24:55.947-04:00Well I did it, I cut my hair. Check out http://laurenandnick.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-feel-light-headed.html for pictures and comments.Also stay tuned to http://laurenandnick.blogspot.com for more details about our upcoming trip to India.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/oYCeT-ZL2XQ/im-feeling-light-headed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/oYCeT-ZL2XQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/05/im-feeling-light-headed.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2951366210499448176Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:54:00 +00002009-04-16T09:25:02.647-04:00mobilegadgetsso overall my past birthday was a good one... this is the last item to arrive... a nice new (refurbished) TomTom Go730.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/zrd7HF1rNZc/newest-gadget-belated-birthday-goodness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/zrd7HF1rNZc" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/04/newest-gadget-belated-birthday-goodness.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-3916717531010034576Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:28:00 +00002009-04-10T13:28:59.356-04:00learningbooksTwittercommunicationsWow... I'm impressed... the Arlington VA Public Library has a Twitter account: http://twitter.com/ArlingtonVALib , not just that, then even have a Facebook page and a Flickr Photostream. Not to mention a page full of blogs: http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/Libraries/events/BlogsRSS.aspx Talk about staying on top of communications and reaching out to their users... I was looking forward to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/Ca0ArksyzGU/arlington-va-public-library-has-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/Ca0ArksyzGU" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/04/arlington-va-public-library-has-twitter.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-8158977082534436017Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:01:00 +00002009-04-16T16:47:58.005-04:00linuxworktracsubversionrhelpythonNew server and new problems. Late last year my patched along circa 1999 Dell server decided to go belly up. That server was running Centos-5.2 and hosted my Trac installation running Trac-0.11b, running in Apache using mod_wsgi. So recently we finally replaced the server with a brand spanking new Dell server (heck if its predecessor lasted almost 10years, I hope this new one lasts at least http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/yMYDTNxdwNU/python26-trac011x-modwsgi-and-modpython.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/yMYDTNxdwNU" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/04/python26-trac011x-modwsgi-and-modpython.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-5568564339851363332Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:29:00 +00002009-04-02T17:29:10.947-04:00what a difference a brush makesOriginally uploaded by nickc_321For a long time now, I've been brush & blade shaving (atleast 3yrs). and as blade shaving goes, I quit using electric shavers basically freshman year (with the occasional use here and there, but currently I do not own an electric razor). My b&b shaving started as an interest after passing by 'The Art of Shaving' store in the mall, andhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/jARx6SRt9gw/what-difference-brush-makes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/jARx6SRt9gw" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-difference-brush-makes.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-6353232542095158943Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:20:00 +00002009-04-01T18:20:29.821-04:00mobileEeePCWell if you saw my last few Twitter posts... you know that I don't like windows... and if you've been following my twitter posts... you'll know that I replaced my Desktop with a n EeePC. (surprisingly... I never did a review/unboxing of my EeePC like I did for my wife's Acer Aspire one). Anyways... so some history... late last year my desktop computer of 5 years, running Ubuntu linux, died... I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/pDZ3quaUMQk/i-like-my-asus-eeepc-more-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/pDZ3quaUMQk" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-like-my-asus-eeepc-more-today.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2209761483475401280Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:18:00 +00002009-03-31T20:18:07.693-04:00travelphotosWell it only took me 2.5 weeks to get them up there... but they are finally up (well 270+ of them... I didn't want to bore you all with the 1503 photos I took). Heres the link to take you straight to the Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickc_321/sets/72157616193699504/ I'll write a real post talking about our trip later and probably on the 'family' blog (http://http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/Az9VFuMcVxc/photos-from-cambodia-and-vietnam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/Az9VFuMcVxc" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/03/photos-from-cambodia-and-vietnam.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2331440244748697403Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:20:00 +00002009-03-18T15:20:28.988-04:00bloggingWell I was just considering moving to WP again from Blogger... why.... well a post I imported to WP a long while back has received more comments than any of my Blogger posts so I figure more people are looking there.... anyways... well importing all my post worked fine (my new posts, plus I was going to use a new domain name) but I noticed that all my embedded media posts were no longer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/qw17DBJAi6Y/attempt-to-move-to-wp-thwarted-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/qw17DBJAi6Y" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/03/attempt-to-move-to-wp-thwarted-again.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-7302302390967805180Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:06:00 +00002009-03-17T15:06:31.378-04:00travelI think everybody has a remedy for getting over jetlag… bottom line is that on day 1, you need to except the fact that you will fail and go back to bed…. I’m working on day one… well I’m trying to work on day one. While I phyisally feel awake, my brain is still 12 hrs off. My goal is to try and stay awake all day and then maybe sleep in tomorrow, my hope is that after 2 days I’ll be back in sync.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/-ZIyk5mNy-Q/getting-over-jetlag.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/-ZIyk5mNy-Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/03/getting-over-jetlag.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-7365526565282599238Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:10:00 +00002009-02-23T11:56:53.479-05:00linuxjunipervpnubuntuWell I've spent the last two days hacking and whacking trying to figure out how to access my offices Juniper VPN via my EeePC which I've replaced the OS with Easy Peasy (Ubuntu). Well it turns out that the problem relates to two things.... 1. Juniper wrote their "Network Connect" applications under the assumption that RedHat (RPM) is the only version of Linux in the world, and 2. the web securityhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/4VVeip5dtG8/accessing-juniper-vpn-via-ubuntu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/4VVeip5dtG8" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/02/accessing-juniper-vpn-via-ubuntu.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-4502528155684890438Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:06:00 +00002009-02-20T13:06:41.387-05:00eclipsesubversionsvnDon't get me wrong, I've always been a fan of revision control packages. Many years ago I played with RCS, then moved to CVS. Both worked and did thier jobs, but I never really used themto their peak usuage. Then a few years ago we moved our repositories to Subversion (SVN).... well I wouldn't save move, more as we started from scratch when we realized that no one had commited code to the CVS http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/qie9MqpUNi4/im-really-liking-svn-with-subversive-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/qie9MqpUNi4" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/02/im-really-liking-svn-with-subversive-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34015034.post-2565434858136626375Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:28:00 +00002009-02-20T13:08:14.838-05:00videohumorgadgetsJust saw this over that on the African Nerd's Blog and thought I'd pass it along. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nickc321/~3/M0i88DFcpFE/cell-phone-reunion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carrasco)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickc321/~4/M0i88DFcpFE" height="1" width="1"/>http://nickc321.blogspot.com/2009/02/cell-phone-reunion.html