Category Archives: College

Satellites, missiles, Calculus and XMLHttpRequest

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Grant

So the world and the news this morning are all talking about the successful destruction of a US spy satellite. Apparently the satellite was channeling its inner three year old by refusing to stay where it was told (i.e. orbit) … Continue reading →

Posted in College, JavaScript, Unbelievable | 5 Comments

Internet vs. TV

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Grant

My senior of college we paid a small fortune every month to have an ISDN line hooked up to the house. That ISDN was then run through a crappy old “Hey I’m a router now” computer to allow four different … Continue reading →

Posted in College, Internet, TV | 1 Comment

When disk drives eat cake

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Grant

From my last post there was a comment at the bottom from Corwin that went like this: “You really need to upgrade to two monitors – it’s saved my keyboards’ ALT and TAB keys.” I’d never actually considered that before, … Continue reading →

Posted in College, Hardware | 1 Comment