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COBOL!

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

my coworker sent me this article:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/23/1746254
“Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren’t going away anytime soon […]

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Tags: News · Nerdy Stuff

ruby on rails > me

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

ruby on rails is smarter than me.
so for the past few weeks, i’ve been messing around with ruby on rails. just playing around. and i created a model called “person” to keep track of users.
so i called the ruby command “ruby script/generate model person” expecting everything to be created named person. so […]

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learning to be nerdy

February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

imho, i am one of the coolest people i know! jk! i’m not one of the coolest… but i am one of the most NON-nerdiest people i know! maybe i know a lot of nerdy people (yes), maybe i just am not that nerdy (yes), but definitely one of the most non-nerdiest […]

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exploration

August 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments

i went exploring today!
i went on a bike ride around the neighborhood. it’s kind of cool… there’s this neighborhood near my apartment that has streets named after colleges. i think only PA colleges… i saw villanova, bucknell, and drexel.  there’s even a carnegie (no mellon though) drive! haha
according to gmaps pedometer, i […]

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Tags: Nerdy Stuff · General

Spam Karma 2: 2 thumbs up!

July 24th, 2006 · No Comments

if you look down at the bottom of this page, there’s a little message about 679 (as of the time of this post) spam comments that have been blocked by Spam Karma 2. i gotta say, spam karma 2 is very effective. wordpress is supposed to have a bit of spam protection (isn’t […]

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google adsense

April 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments

so i just setup google adsense on my webpage (click the banner above and help me out! :-))
i gotta say, google is really good at targetting its ads… i don’t quite know why i have (as of this post) billy joel themed ads on the main page, but on a whim, i went into each […]

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the lazy man’s ransom note generator

January 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments

http://metaatem.net/words.php!! now lazy people can make ransom notes with the click of a button! here’s a sample:

pretty cool! i think i might switch to flickr

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Windows Live Local got my house wrong!!

December 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment

So jason posted about windows live local with pictures of his house and wootton. i decided to also take a look to see my parents’ house in MD… so i typed in the address and this is what i got:

butttt….. that “2″, supposedly marking the house with my parents’ address…. is on my NEIGHBOR’s […]

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meebo.com!!

December 5th, 2005 · 2 Comments

thanks to nerdy friend jason for introducing me to… meebo.com!
this thing is pretty cool! it allows you to sign onto AIM/MSN/yahoo/some other chat clients from the web! all the IM windows are on the window of the browser so they’re all hidden under one internet browser window, instead of multiple windows (though if […]

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it’s ghetto to program in notepad

November 11th, 2005 · No Comments

it’s ghetto to program in notepad

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