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Ubiquity Scripts

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments

After playing with the Jetpack API and having an increasing desire to procrastinate my Spanish homework, I decided to give the Ubiquity API a shot too and make a few small scripts just to make my life easier.  The first extension I made was a script to do look ups of IP addresses and get [...]

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Tags: Javascript · Twitter

Google Reader vs. Netvibes, and Jetpack Notifications

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments

A couple of weeks ago I decided to give Google Reader a try.  I have been addicted to Netvibes for at least 2-3 years now, but I saw that Reader had a more active community around it, so I thought it was worth trying out.  Almost immediately I disliked the look and feel.  I am [...]

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Tags: Javascript · Jetpack · Musings · Web Development

Following Chromium Progress

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

For the past few months I have been following the progress of Chromium for Mac and watching it develop and it has definitely made a lot of progress in that time. In the past few month it has received increasing press, with people asking why it is taking so long. One of the lead developers [...]

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Tags: Chromium · Programming · Python · Twitter

Begginning of Summer 2009

May 30th, 2009 · No Comments

As usual I haven’t posted in a while but there actually have been some things going on that may be worth writing on here.  I’m at Duke for the summer doing research with the Physics Neutrino group, among other things so here are some things that have happened: Ethical Hacking Seminar Duke OIT gave me [...]

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Tags: Duke · Javascript · Programming · Python · Web Development

Break from Studying

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

In the middle of studying for some finals, I thought I’d take a break, install the new WordPress 2.7.  Of course, this required I actually write a blog post to give the new version a legitimate spin.  So just wanted to post that my new favorite command (after rsync) has been wget, installed via macports, [...]

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Tags: Duke · Miscellanious · Programming