I have owned the G1 for about a year now and am still very happy with it. I do have a few complaints though and my wife’s contract is about up, so I am going to buy a new Android powered phone for me. One of the phones is the Motorola Cliq is one of the phones that I am looking at.
Motorola Cliq
After looking at this phone there are a few things that caught my attention. Some of the things to pay attention to as compared to other Android phones is: Continue Reading »
Software Development Cycle Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs.Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs.Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.Users find 137 new bugs.Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free…
The problem: I had a div on a page that has a list of links. This list is longer than the containing div. Also, I have a few command buttons that appear off to the left of the list via jQuery. The Commands are inline kinda like this Continue Reading »
The problem all started when I wanted to have a page dynamically fetch pictures for a slide show. The pictures were automatically served as thumbnails to the page via an ajax call. So my view page would request the next set (9 pictures at a time) from a php page. The php page would use the wonderful Image Magick to create thumbnails if needed and pass the thumb images back to the view page.
Every thing would work when I tested the individual pages, even the ones that would be called via ajax. But as soon as I wired everything up to run as ajax calls from the view page, my apache server would hang. Continue Reading »
I have seen the future. It is marvelous. The world has united and peace reigns. OK, I have not seen world peace, but what I have seen is a better world. It is made possible by great teachers melded with great technology. It is more advanced than mere computers, it is the growth of the human race through technology. It is as significant as the invention of written language. It will advance our civilization like the discovery of electricity. It is the next step in evolution. All this comes from a unified, perfected, and dynamic education system.
In a kingdom in a far away land lives the Littlest Knight. He is the bravest knight in all the kingdom. The Littlest Knight and his horse Stan were famous for raiding castles, and fighting fire breathing dragons, and saving princesses (because princesses are always getting into trouble).
One day the littlest knight heard about a fierce fire breathing dragon named Dave. Dave was the most feared of all the fire breathing dragons in all the land. No one ever dared get near Dave because they might not ever come back alive. The Littlest Knight and Stan decided that they would go fight Dave and rid the land of such a hideous and scary beast. But when they came close to the lair of Dave they heard crying.
I find that as gasoline prices drop, I tend to loose interest in researching alternatives. Well today I went looking again. I have found some fairly good sites about absorbed natural gas that was put out by Midwest Research Group. Here are a few links to some of the stuff that has been published on the subject of ANG. Continue Reading »
I am going to post some of the stories that I have written. I truly hope that this doesn’t come back to bite me.
A Knight’s best friend
In a kingdom in a distant land lived The Littlest Knight. He liked to roam the kingdom and look at all the houses and people and he loved to stop and enjoy a good grassy field to play in. He especially loved grass because he had a horse, and horsed LOVE to eat grass. His horse’s name was Stan. Stan was the whitest horse in all the kingdom; except for that one day they both got grass stains on their knees from wrestling in the grass.
The Littlest Knight and Stan always did everything together. They would:
Raid castles together
Fight fire breathing dragons together
Rescue princesses together (They always had to rescue princesses because princesses are always get themselves in trouble).
One day right after saving a princess from a fierce Dragon named Dave, The Littlest Knight and Stan ran into some friends. Continue Reading »
Perhaps I should have named the title of this post ‘Energy Crisis??’ instead. I want to touch on a few things in this essay. The supply and demand theory as explained in collage economics classes. The change in demand of oil , both crude and refined. The change of supply of oil. And finally the change in price. All of this will be followed by more posts about what the real problem might be, and possible solutions to those problems. Continue Reading »
