sprocket i/o

I stayed home sick today, so I figured I’d revisit an old entry. Last September, I mentioned that I had signed up for kiva.org (Wikipedia article), a service where people collectively loan small amounts of money to small-business owners/entrepeneurs in 3rd world countries. Kiva is a non-profit organization run by former TiVo, PayPal and Google [...]

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Earlier this week, Google finally released Google Earth 4.0. As a geography addict, I open Google Earth up at least once a week. Sometimes it’s just to find a shortcut for my daily commute to work, or a place to take the motorbike on the weekends, but sometimes I just go exploring around the Georgia [...]

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My "Bixby" theme for Slidy

Inevitably, everyone has to give a presentation some at some point for their place of employment. Presented with this challenge, most folks fall into the Microsoft Powerpoint trap, open-source folks use OpenOffice Impress, while the more stylish and chic rely on Apple Keynote. The Presentation Problem The problem with PowerPoint and Impress is that in [...]

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Ringarstigan after sunset

Last year, I posted my goals for 2006. Here’s a review of how I did: Pay off my car loan ($10k left) — 20%: Only paid off $2k Learn at least one new programming language that differs significantly from those that I already know, such as LISP or IO. — 70%: Learned Python, but it’s [...]

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