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Entries for the ‘Tech’ Category

Amazon 30-Day Post Order Price Guarantee

UPDATE: This policy has been discontinued by Amazon.com  as of September 1st, 2008.  Although this is a very sad day, I do realize Amazon.com does need to make some money off of its patrons.  It was great while it lasted.
Amazon has really changed the way I buy things.  When I want to read reviews for [...]

Rubik’s Cube Program

Goal: Write a program that will display, rotate, solve, and provide hints (if asked) to the Rubik’s cube puzzle.
I think that it would be a good challenge to write the hints part of it because it requires the algorithm to solve the puzzle itself and choose a path that is best. The hints part [...]

gmail and pictures

Finally broke the 1GB (1003MB) storage and the 10K (10022) conversation barriers in gmail last week, and no, I do not save spam nor do I store my picture collection in my email. Speaking of pictures, I am in progress of uploading selections from the past five year’s archives of pictures to a flickr [...]

battery chargers

The irony today was that I needed to bring my cellphone charger and ipod charger to work, but I didn’t even consider bringing laptop charger.

On a side note here is a funny story. Here is a bird’s eye view of my aisle at work:
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P represents coworker. C represents co-worker. X is where [...]

thinkpads and beyond

So this year was definitely a year of transition. I started the year with a unused desktop and a trusty laptop, and Jenn started with a older laptop and a newer really hot (almost overheating) laptop. It all started when my trusty laptop died :(. That was back in January; I sent [...]