Archive for November, 2005
Solitaire
Monday, November 28th, 2005I played Solitaire on my iPod yesterday for an hour on my flight back to Seattle and I never won. How sad is that?
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- Posted by Ryan at 2:08 pm
- Filed Under: Humor
Seattle Crime Stats
Saturday, November 26th, 2005If you live in the Seattle metro area and are curious about the crime stats in your area of the city, I urge you to do the following:
Go to this site and find what tract you live in.
After you find your tract number, go to Seattle Police Dept Crime Stats Page and select a search.
For [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 12:36 am
- Filed Under: Asides
Updated Classes Page!
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005Today I spent some time revamping my classes portion of this site. Yes, all of my class data is still online, but now it is protected by the power of a .htaccess file. So, unless you have my file names memorized, you’re left with the files that I have listed on each of the respective [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 2:34 pm
- Filed Under: School, Site Information
My Incident Number
Sunday, November 20th, 2005It was a week ago that I read about a bike being taken, so I moved mine to my locker and locked it in there. I’m glad I did. But, it obviously wasn’t enough. Today, my roommate discovered that two snowboards and two pairs of boots were taken from our storage locker. There was no [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:11 pm
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Why Does It Matter Now?
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005Recently on digg.com there have been a couple of links sprouting up about how to block Google Analytics from tracking you if you visit a site that is utilizing this tool. Honestly, I don’t get it. Maybe I’m naive, but online marketing/advertising firms have been doing this for years, with similar technologies, with much more [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 3:06 pm
- Filed Under: Computing
Amazon Wishlist 0.4
Saturday, November 12th, 2005A minor update has been made to my Amazon Wishlist Plugin for Wordpress. This update is not necessary for everybody, but here’s the change log:
Added support for locales in US, UK, DE, JP, FR, CA
Added support for displaying 1-10 items without navigation or test blurb
Added ability to hide navigation, blurb, and product images
Removed 90ms sleep [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 1:58 pm
- Filed Under: Plugins
Two Items
Monday, November 7th, 2005Microsoft releases “Express” versions of C++, C#, J#, SQL Server, and VS IDE. More info can be found here.
Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
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- Posted by Ryan at 3:26 pm
- Filed Under: Asides, Computing