Blake

Excel makes you feel agile, when you’re unwittingly running around in circles.

iOS I recently bought an iPhone 4S, because it’s finally on Sprint! I’ve owned a 1st gen iPod touch for a year, but a lot has changed since then. Yet, iOS 5 still has a similar look and feel, but more features have made it way more productive. Some of the features I like the [...]

Facebook is being heralded as the premiere online “social network.” But haven’t we always had social networks online? From the history of the internet, we’ve had user groups, bulletin board, forums, and email lists. Yes, we have been able to connect and collaborate through the internet, but Facebook has successfully made it accessible to millions [...]

A grad student at work needed help with getting Gnuplot to work with WinEdt 6, a text editor geared towards TeX and LaTeX. I couldn’t find any documentation on how to get the two to work together in Windows, but it can be done. I only needed to get this to work with PDFLaTeX, but [...]

It’s been a long semester figuring out what I’m going to do after I graduate. After I leave school, I’m heading down to Phoenix, AZ to work for Deloitte & Touche!

It turns out that Disk Utility partitioned the drive with GPT (GUID Partition Table, the successor to the old MBR (Master Boot Record). I guess the Xbox isn’t compatible with GPT. So I repartitioned the drive with MBR, formatted it to MacOS Extended (not journaled). Hooked it up to the Xbox, and bam! Everything works fine.

So I’m implementing an ERP for one of my classes this semester. Our group evaluated a lot of open source options, and in the end we chose Opentaps, based off of Apache’s Ofbiz Open Business Project. I’ve had to put together some information from different sources, so I’m blogging on how we got things setup [...]

Omgosh, Microsoft released a public beta of their new, awesome, super standards compliant Internet Explorer 9. I have a x64 Windows 7 computer at work, and I thought, “I’d like to try it out, so I’ll just install it.” I can make myself use it while I’m at work to see if it’s any better [...]

Remember AOL keywords back in the day? Everyone and their dog advertised, “Use the AOL keyword: aolsucks.” This magic keyword made it easy for anyone to navigate the World Wide Web. Yesterday after class, I went to Carl’s Jr. with a friend. Every tray cover had “http://www.facebook.com/carlsjr” <—- (notice the Facebook keyword?) It’s an easy [...]

I guarantee that using these four words will change your life. The best part is that you can use this phrase everyday if you wanted to. We come into contact with new people all the time. Next time you go to the store, genuinely ask the person who’s helping you, “How are you doing?” I [...]