Greetings From Ireland
Having never left the US, I didn't know what to expect when traveling to Ireland. It was more like a trip to the DMV than some exciting adventure. I think this picture captures the spirit of our...
View ArticleHTML5 and Homework...
Don't you hate when you need to draw a box plot but none of the free tools already online will draw it how you want? Me too! So I made this.Of course, it probably won't draw a blox plot the way you...
View ArticleMandelbrot In HTML5...
I was talking to a former co-worker on Google+ about some pretty cool fractal images he had posted. I decided to take (another) stab at making one, this time in Javascript.The performance is pretty...
View ArticleA Little Piece & Quiet...(Part 1)
It's been a few weeks now and I feel like I'm largely adjusted to life here in Ireland. I love the weather, the location of the apartment, and even the 'feel' of Dublin....there are a lot of things to...
View ArticleThe New Office...*
* Pending the successful completion of the background check and Green Card application approval....It looks like I've found a new job in Dublin. The green card application is being submitted and, as...
View ArticleThere, I Fixed It!
I don't consider myself 'cheap'...but I do take a certain satisfaction in achieving a particular goal efficiently (and sometimes that appears the same as cheap. But whatever...) For example....During...
View ArticleChecking Gmail Messages With C#
I used OpenPop.NET for the first time yesterday. I highly recommend it; it's free, open-source, really simple and it seems to work. List<Message> myMail = FetchAllMessages("pop.gmail.com", 995,...
View ArticlePresident And CEO Of An International Software Company....
Well, not exactly. Still, I had all but forgotten about my silly fishbot program I wrote a few years back and then put online last year. On the one hand, it's a trival application that I threw...
View ArticleA Farmer With Four Stones.....
A farmer had a stone that he used to measure grain on his scale. One day his neighbor borrowed the stone; and when he returned; it was broken into four pieces. The neighbor was very apologetic; but the...
View ArticleA Quick Look At Taxes...
A lot of people have asked me about living in Ireland. "What's the work like?" "What are the people like?" Sooner or later, everyone seems to bring up the taxes. 'But dude, aren't taxes like 50% in...
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