Archive for January, 2005
Of Those Who Voted
Saturday, January 15th, 2005When I was making my rounds of reading the news online yesterday I ran into an interesting article that listed all of the turnout rates for each state for the 2004 election. Of course, I wanted to see who was the highest (Minnesota @ 77.3%), lowest (Hawaii @ 48.9%), and where Washington ended up (65.4%). [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 2:54 pm
- Filed Under: Politics
Mmm Update
Friday, January 14th, 2005Well, it’s almost been a week. Guess I’ve been sidetracked with school and work. But, stuff has been going on, just nothing noteworthy to write about.
Capstone is going along smoothly, classes are just fine, work is… work, and I’m still looking for a job. So, it is pretty much the same stuff as usual [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 5:06 pm
- Filed Under: Asides
Oh Flickr
Saturday, January 8th, 2005Well, ever since flickr went online I was pretty intrigued on its use. So, I signed up for a free account. Well, this is where the addiction began.
Since my free account, I have purchased a pro account which allows me unlimited viewing bandwidth, 1GB upload per month, unlimited photosets, and unlimited pages viewable in [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 6:04 pm
- Filed Under: Computing, Site Information
- CSS: Mark-up guides - A good little guide on taking the design from requirements, to a layout, to color, to the markup. Maybe this will be useful in capstone? (5)
- Ashlee Simpson’s vocal malfunction - “Ashlee’s singing sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.” (via Trotter) (2)
Anatomy of a Christmas Gift
Friday, January 7th, 2005Just a little over two weeks ago many of us celebrated the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day. Over time, this has involved exchanging gifts between family, friends, those you love. This was no different for myself. But, the one thing that I do not like is exchanging gifts. I am terrible at thinking what [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 3:08 pm
- Filed Under: Asides
- Credit Card Prank - Just sign on the line whatever you want. Who checks anyways? Ok, this just makes you wonder if they check your signature or not. Guess that is why some people put “See ID” on the back of their credit cards. (5)