http://fairlyrealistic.com moderately practical information about life, computers, the internet and programming Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:08:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been working on my graduate project and paper like a fiend lately. Hopefully, I'll be done in the new couple of weeks. Nicole and I have been working on some random projects and just overall having a good time with ourselves. Nicole put up a new site at RareEdge.com a ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2007/02/12/graduate-project-and-life-update/ Hi everyone, I've been spending a lot of time at rareedge.com lately. Nicole and I wrote a program called GMobileSync that wirelessly synchronizes Google Calendar with any Windows Mobile or Windows CE device. Tomorrow, Nicole and I are going to Germany for holiday to visit Alex and Mel. That's the ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/12/25/rareedge-where-art-thou/ This open letter was taken verbatim from Software by Rob. I feel like it should be shared and get as much attention as possible! Dear Software Managers of the World: We, the Software Developers of the World, realize that our two factions have had many disagreements over the years. Through this letter ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/12/07/an-open-letter-to-the-software-managers-of-the-world/ The developers over at IEBlog released a Windows XP SP2 image file with IE6 installed on it for testing! The image is pre-activated and will work until April 1st, 2007. (Maybe that's a joke and it will run forever?) This is a great way to test IE6 and IE7 locally. [bias]I ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/12/04/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine/ November 14th is World Usability Day! I know, I'm a day late. However, I promise that I made usable things yesterday. And the days before. And I promise for days that haven't even passed yet, I will continue to make usable things. Wow, that is starting to sound more and ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/11/15/world-usability-day-2006/ I stumbled upon the Whitney Music Box this morning. You really have to see it to understand what it does. It's open-source so you can check it out if you're feeling saucy. There are also a few other neat applets available here. http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/10/08/color-joy-and-excitement/ Google has yet another rendition of their search engine called Google Code Search. The twist here is that it's intended for programmers looking for bits of code publicly available on the Internet. Of course, if you're looking for the latest algorithm for generating serial numbers for certain zipping software, then ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/10/05/google-code-search/ The rumors are true! San Francisco really is made of Jello and I have the pictures to prove it. This helps with earthquakes as you can see from this video. http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/09/28/san-francisco-made-of-jello/ Nick and I will be in the Adirondacks hiking and camping this weekend. It's the annual VanDamme hiking trip already! Since we typically go at the end of September, all of the leaves are starting to change in to Fall colors. It's very beautiful. http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/09/27/adirondacks-for-the-weekend/ I would feel a little safer looking at these images if I didn't have a Sony battery in this Dell laptop... on my lap. Of course, I could use my Powerbook but it has a Sony battery as well. My Powerbook battery was already recalled once when I first got ... http://fairlyrealistic.com/2006/09/24/laptop-batteries-exploding/