Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Programming on Aug 31st, 2005
I am trying to decide if I should add learning Ruby, and particularly Ruby on Rails.
The problem being, I already have my plate full at the moment with C#, and as of the moment, I think PHP has it over Ruby. Perhaps after I have learned C# and turn my attention back to learning PHP, [...]
Posted in General on Aug 31st, 2005
There is a nice before and after image of New Orleans taken via the Landsat 7 satellite. When the “after” picture was taken, the waters were raising.
You can listen to audio commentaries, much like the ones available on some DVDs, for Battlestar Galactica at their podcast page. They have audio commentaries for all the episodes of this second season and many for Battlestar Galactica - Season One (2004). Basically you start it when the episode starts and listen to the [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Aug 28th, 2005
Ari is with me this weekend while Sara and her mom are in Florida. Sara is attending a Lord of the Rings Convention. Last time Sara called, she was having fun. The only bad thing is I am working this weekend, which makes watching Ari and working at the same time a bit of a [...]
Even my humble site made it into the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, starting 17 October 2002.
What is cool, is that is the date they archived the whole site. So there are entries going back as far as 8 March 2002. Some pages are missing, but for the most part it is fairly complete.
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, TV Shows on Aug 27th, 2005
I have been watching the second season of Battlestar Galactica, and only 4.25 episodes in, I have to say it may be the best thing on television outside of Lost and it may darn well be as good as that. Pick up Battlestar Galactica - Season One (2004) as soon as it is out [...]
Posted in General on Aug 25th, 2005
There seems to be contradictory information about compact fluorescent bulbs, mostly on if they can be used in enclosed fixtures. Some manufactures and websites say it is okay so long as they are not used in receded enclosed fixtures. Others say to avoid enclosed fixtures all together. I am not sure whom to believe here.
For [...]
Posted in General on Aug 25th, 2005
While looking at this Channel 9 thread, I saw the following screenshot (Click image for full size image if you can’t make out the text):
The very first thing I noticed is that they use “v is for velocity” in the explanation, but not in the formula itself. Somebody used “r”in the formula where they [...]
Posted in General on Aug 24th, 2005
There was an “old style” blue moon on August 19th. The old style blue moon was the third blue moon in a season (between an equinox and a solstice or between a solstice and an equinox) that has four moons.
What we more commonly call a blue moon is the second full moon of a calender [...]
Posted in General on Aug 24th, 2005
Another of those useless information posts that I make despite nobody caring :
When they speak of 20,000 leagues under the sea, they are not saying they are at a depth of 20,000 leagues, but the length traveled under water. You measure depth in fathoms (6 feet). The Google Calculator says 20,000 leagues is about [...]
Posted in General on Aug 18th, 2005
When I picked up Ari tonight, Sara told me how she sold Tiger Woods and his wife tickets to see a movie. He is in town for the World Golf Championships in Akron.
I have been using Sudoku Works and Pappocom’s Sudoku program for a while now. Another program, which I haven’t tried yet is SadMan Software: Sudoku.
Yet, another alternative that I found today is Simple Sudoku, which is freeware. It has a few tools that makes learning a few strategies easier, such as auto-pencil, filtering out [...]
One of those crazed useless information posts that nobody will care about, but I’ll share anyhow :
While trying to remember what size bed Ari’s new bed will be (I knew it was bigger then a twin, but smaller then the Queen sized bed I have in my room), I learned there are more bed [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Aug 14th, 2005
Today, I had Ari corralled in the living room. With the gate in place at the bottom of the stairs, I started taking out some wires from his room, I’ll get to why in a bit. I hear crying, and figuring it was just him upset at being left alone in the living room (probably [...]
Posted in Testing on Aug 7th, 2005
This is just a test to see if pingbacks are working now… this story about Why Arrays still has me stumped.
Posted in Cpp, Programming on Aug 5th, 2005
Doubt many of the regular visitors know, but just in case somebody knows. Why use Arrays in C# when ArrayLists and other Collections seem so much more flexible, and the book says often more efficient with system resources?
Posted in Ari Update on Aug 5th, 2005
Ari has been diagnosed with eczema on his belly. He had a rash, but it’s gone now. Seems it is aggravated by tomatoes in his case which is sad since he loves tomatoes. Lucky for us it doesn’t seem to be aggravated by wheat… He is also on Soy milk now… and is still a [...]
Posted in General on Aug 5th, 2005
At my church, we have our A Week of Overflow! Campmeeting starting Saturday 6 August to Friday 12 August 2005.
Speaking will be Rev. Keith Butler, Dr. Jesse Duplantis, Rev. Mark Hankins, Evangelist Dwight Thompson and Rev. Lynn Hammond. The kids will have a special program all week… Thanks to the Campmeeting and the Football Hall [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Aug 5th, 2005
Note to self: I need to get some cheese cloth to block the air/heating vents so Ari doesn’t loose stuff down them, which he is trying to do right now.
Posted in General on Aug 5th, 2005
For this post, I’ll point out What Pre-1985 video game character am I:
I am a Light Cycle.
I drive fast, I turn fast, I do everything fast. I even breakfast. I tend to confuse people with my sudden changes of heart. Sometimes I even confuse myself, which tends to cause problems. What Video Game Character Are [...]
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