So GitHub is reportedly being bought by Microsoft. I already had a few issues with GitHub, such as their reported toxic business culture and the fact the service code itself wasn’t open source when so many others are, so combine this with the fact I don’t like or …
It’s been a while since I updated this blog, so lets do it. First, I’ve managed to get a few more publications. First, at work, we posted a paper on Maat to arXiv, and we have two more papers under consideration for MILCOM 2018. These are related to …
So it’s finally time I re-did my website and make it a bit nicer than the simple site I had before. This new site id built using the Pelican static site generator, and it seems to work pretty well. Over time, I’ll fill in a lot of the …
This used to exist as files on a BBS and an email/newsgroup thread. Somehow my dad got it and printed it out on our Commodore 64. It’s been around forever, but still good for a laugh.
http://www.funny.co.uk/stuff/art_172-1581-World-History-According-to-School-Children.html
If you can get past the obvious camp, and the host trying to make himself out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to these celebrities, it’s actually quite fascinating. And of course, anything with Colbert is always fun.
Available for free online.
So it appears someone tried to hack the blog. Some users registered themselves who didn’t exist. I knew it was a hack attempt because no one in their right mind would register for this blog. So I removed all registered users (both of you). If I removed someone by …
While the wife spent a week in England last month, I decided to fix one of those nagging thing about the house that’s been bugging us since we moved in. The stairs to the second floor never had a hand railing. The home inspector poited out that it wasn …
As a followup to my last post, here is the spreadsheet I use to calculate how much interest I’ve accrued based on when my payment will be applied. Remember to add in 2-3 business days from when you actually submit your payment online until it goes through.
Put your …
My wife has significant student loan debt from her time in law school. Not only was she paying tuition, but she had to pay living expenses to live in NY for three years, all paid for with loans. While I was really starting to track our finances, I began taking …
Several months ago, I wrote my Free Online Finance Trackers post, and I thought I was time for a followup. After several months, the winner was……
None of them.
But it’s not really their fault. I simply decided I needed a little bit more than any of them could …