Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Jun 18th, 2006
As I write this, it is 84 degrees in the house. The motor or the motor controller on the furnace is out, so the air conditioner can’t run (the outside unit runs fine, but the blower in the furnace unit itself no longer runs), meaning it is unbearably hot unless you are under the ceiling [...]
Posted in General on Jun 17th, 2006
As cool as the Lenovo Z61m is, I think I found a laptop I want more,
Posted in TV Shows on Jun 16th, 2006
Ruby and Max is a TV show for pre-school aged kids on Nick Jr. and Noggin.
The premise is simple enough, Ruby and Max are children bunnies, Ruby being the older sister to her baby brother Max. Equating them to human children ages, Max is perhaps 2 or 3, with Ruby being perhaps 8 to 10. [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Jun 16th, 2006
I was working on Exercise 4-2 in Murach’s C# 2005 which at one point has you figure out how to display the largest, smallest and mid point of a series of invoices. Finding the largest is fairly straight forward, assume it is 0 at the start and compare it using Math.Max (at this point we [...]
Posted in General on Jun 15th, 2006
My computer’s monitor is going on the fritz. Not overly surprising seeing that it is a very old monitor… Let’s see, this monitor was used on this computer, the one before, and the one before that at the very least. I figure at least 8 or 9 years… which isn’t nearly as old as I [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Jun 15th, 2006
You may have noticed on the Now Reading list in the sidebar that I am reading Murach’s C# 2005, an update on their older C# book. I got to say it is an amazing source for learning programming in C#. I am presently on Chapter 7, and I am about to get ready to work [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jun 15th, 2006
Ari, after going “poo” in his diaper, has taken up taking off his pants, then his diaper, then sitting down on the couch… this results in a mess of course… He also tries to toss his old diaper into the trash, which is not easy for him since the gate is up to keep him [...]
Posted in Humor on Jun 13th, 2006
I like Japanese Pop as much as the next person… well at least when it is Smile.dk, but this is just… well, I am not sure what it is:
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Posted in General on Jun 13th, 2006
A very cool optical illusion. Stare at the false color image of a castle, then when it turns to a black and white picture, it will look like it is full color then fade into the black and white image it actually is. And no, no face or scream at the end. It may be [...]
Posted in Politics on Jun 13th, 2006
A big thank you to Ralph Regula, the congressman for my area, who voted to add the Net Neutrality amendment (roll call) to a bill that otherwise passed. Regula was one of only 11 Republicans to vote yes on the amendment. It is good to see a few people understand how important this is for [...]
Posted in Politics on Jun 12th, 2006
The Washington Post has posted an Editorial called The Internet’s Future, in which some un-named idiot at the Post decrees that Congress should stay away from burdening “the Internet with preemptive regulation.” They argue that supposedly the fear is that the Internet will become like Cable TV, where just select programming gets through, an argument [...]
You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that the more entries a tag has, the bigger it is. (Presently they are in order of number of posts, but they may move to alphabetical later on.)
Since [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jun 12th, 2006
Well, Ari didn’t shave, but Sara did cut his hair. See the pictures of his haircut in the Flickr part in the sidebar.
Posted in Site News on Jun 12th, 2006
I am adding the parent category to each sub-category. For example, Lost is under TV Shows, but most of the Lost posts are tagged Lost only, not TV Shows and Lost. I think I have fixed almost everything except Lost. So the tag cloud in the sidebar should be more reflective of everything here, except [...]
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2006
Some really cool guitar playing… and no, I can’t really play anything on a guitar let alone like that.
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Posted in Site News on Jun 10th, 2006
Selected posts from this point forward may include more tags (see below the post where it says tags). I am not 100% sure on that yet though as it does take a tad bit more work… Adding more tags would complicate the tag cloud in the sidebar so I may stick with the categories/tags that [...]
Posted in General, Web Standards on Jun 10th, 2006
I downloaded Opera Version 9 - Beta 2.
It is far more standards compliant than Firefox, which makes it worlds more compliant than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To be fair to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 7 will close the gap on Firefox, but not on Opera, we may have to wait for IE 8 for that… heck we [...]
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2006
Stay up to date with this site.
Don’t have the time visit Brian A. Thomas .com on a daily basis to look for updates? Well, as I have mentioned on several occasions, use an RSS Reader.
To that end, I give you a listing of a few (all for Windows):
Firefox. You shouldn’t be using Microsoft’ Internet Explorer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2006
This is the tag cloud in alpha order.
NOTE: Any posts that were filed only under General (the greatest percentage of the posts) will not show up here as they do not have a tag. So use the link above to find posts filed only under General.
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