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Entries from July 2005

Tessellation World

July 29th, 2005 · No Comments

There are some pretty neat animated tessellations at this japanese site.

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Tags: Math

Pi Birthday

July 14th, 2005 · No Comments

Does the integer representation of your birthdate show up in the number Pi? Mine shows up at position 441864. You can check out if any sequence of numbers shows up in the first 1.25 million digits of Pi here.

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Tags: Math

Keeping Organized

July 11th, 2005 · No Comments

Staying organized. How do people do it? Closets and dressers for clothes. Shelves for books, movies and CD’s — most likely in some sort of alphabetical order. Calendars for upcoming events. But how do we keep our digital possessions organized? Some nested collections of folders/directories on a computer. This solution is OK if you only [...]

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Tags: General · Mac

WeFunk

July 4th, 2005 · No Comments

I love funky music. While I was in California, there was a radio staion (I can’t remember which one) whilc played a lot of funk. I have been looking for something similar on the internet and came across WeFunk. You can stream their weekly shows or download them as mp3’s.

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Tags: Music

New Phone

July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments

In a week I will be losing my free cell phone privledges with WCS since I will no longer be working for them. So today I decided to go shopping for a new phone. I wanted something that would sync up with Address Book and iCal and decided to splurge for a Bluetooth phone. I [...]

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Tags: General

Wordpress Upgrade and New Theme

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments

Upgraded Wordpress to version 1.5.1.3. It was virtually hassle free excapt I was receiving errors regarding the pluggable-functions.php file. I couldn’t find a solution in the forums so I just added an include like to the settings.php file and, voila, now you can see the nice new theme that I created.

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Tags: Site updates

Google Rides

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments

I stumbled across this neat feature of Google Maps, Google Ride Finder. Milwaukee is one of the 13 citys which work so far. So much for dropping out of the Top 20.
There is also a plugin for Address book on OS X which integrates Google Maps with your contacts’ addresses.

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Tags: Google · Random Linkage