About

It is probably safe to say that I am by no means a traditional technologist. I have a degree in English and French literature, and I’ve spent years in the food service industry. I find, however, that this very difference makes me an invaluable resource to the development community, both at work and at large.  These differences, paired with a lifelong curiosity regarding these “thinking machines”, has led me both to my current profession and hobbies.

I am currently employed at the Oregon Health & Science University as a research assistant.  I’ve been programming professionally for about 6 years now since moving to Portland.

This blog was started as a way to log the more interesting technical challenges that I run into.  I began this while starting classes at PSU in computer science and mathematics. It is my hope that this course work will lead to a graduate degree from the OGI School of Science and Engineering.

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Patron Saint of Advertising

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A Monstrous Way of Debugging Flex

I hate logging and debugging in Flex. HATE it. You can trace, which is about as useful as a javascript alert. You can use as3-commons-logging, but this still lacks the robustness of something like log4j and certainly lacks the user-friendliness of something like FireBug. Details »

Max Mathews (Nov 13, 1926 – Apr 21, 2011)

Max Mathews in 1984 playing and sampling a violin connected to an IBM 704 computer


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Wii Balance Board Meets Research

Balancing Research Data

I’ve been looking into getting some use out of my Wii Balance Board. Now, rather than just hook it up to the Wii (Bah, too easy), I’ve figured that the hords of homebrewers out there could help me get it on my mac.

Well, no surprise, but there were plenty of forums, homebrewer’s web sites, and even wikis that helped me out. Here are just a few of them.

ptmc.org
WiiBREW
WiiHacks

Time Travel

It would seem that Ben never died but is actually traveling through time occasionally stopping in DC to see how things are going.

Trying Science

I recently had work ship me out to the USA ScienceEngineering Festival. Details »

NLP back in the day

IBM 7090daisy

Well Done Microsoft

The autoupdate guys and the update guys are not on the same team.

Hell, they don’t even know how to play nice with each other on my computer.

Breakfast Serial

Everybody needs a little serial in the morning.

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