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Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:30 AM

DAWG Part 2

This post assumes that you’ve read at least the radix tree portion of the post from two days ago. Given that tree built from my dictionary of 100,000 words, what word would require the most nodes to be touched? One key is that the children of every node...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:30 AM

Directed Acyclic Word Graph

If that title wasn’t warning enough, you should know that this is going to be a pretty geeky post. I thought I’d do a little writeup of the project I’ve been toying with for the last couple weeks and I think a handful of you will enjoy it. It all began...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:30 AM

Your 10k Day

As I was standing in front of the toilet evacuating my bladder the other day, I had an amazing idea. Hey don’t look at me like that. I can’t control when I get these ideas. There is no off position on the genius switch. Anyway, how great would it be to...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:30 AM

GPS Games

Continuing on the GPS phone theme, have you seen apps like FourSquare and Gowalla ? Both of them are apps that you load on your phone and when you enter a business, you “check in.” You acquire points for visiting each location, reviewing it, checking...
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Friday, January 22, 2010 12:30 AM

Power Wheels Remote Control

We bought a Power Wheels for David last spring for his birthday. I don’t know why this never occurred to me, but there is a thriving community that modifies Power Wheels for Bigger batteries, more power, etc. While that’s interesting, JimM recently sent...
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Friday, January 08, 2010 12:30 AM

Top Tech of the Decade

This Week In Tech had a recent episode where they discussed the top technology from the last decade. They had some good ideas and it prompted me to make my own list: Moore’s Law Wikipedia definition : “Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:30 AM

Verizon to Rule the World

I don’t give out stock tips because I don’t know anything about the stock market. However, I’m seriously considering buying some stock in Verizon. Despite the fact that their stock as been decreasing for the last ten years, I’m starting to think that...
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Friday, January 01, 2010 12:30 AM

Tech Behind Modern 3D Movies

As I sat through Avatar 3D, I kept wondering how they made it all work. With the old red/blue glasses (anaglyph), it was pretty easy to understand. One eye filtered out one color and the other eye filtered out the other color and you ended up sending...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:30 AM

Hoarding Discs

I became interested in music right around the time that I got into CDs. A BMG music subscription soon followed and I built up a big collection of discs. Then Napster was released the same year that I got to Purdue and had a high speed connection and I...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:30 AM

3D Movie Review

Mere days after writing about my 3D skepticism , I found myself in a 3D showing of Avatar . First of all, the movie was decent. It was obvious that approximate 1.3 bazillion dollars were spent to make it, probably in an attempt to overshadow the mediocre...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 12:30 AM

GoDaddy Disappointment

Remember my brilliant offsite backup solution ? I had an app running that would encrypt and sync my Windows Home Server files up to my GoDaddy web hosting account. I had plenty of free space on the server so I figured it was a good use of the space. GoDaddy...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:30 AM

Desktop Wallpaper

As more and more people have widescreens on their computers, I see more and more stretched wallpaper pictures or black bars on the side of the screen from those who don’t stretch. I whipped up a little application to solve this problem. There’s not much...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:30 AM

Sabotage

The Large Hadron Collider is sure having it’s share of difficulties. Every time they get ready to go, something else goes wrong. Most recently, a bird strategically dropped a baguette in a vent and broke the system . All of these incidents, especially...
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Friday, November 13, 2009 12:30 AM

Net Neutrality: Comcast Strikes a Blow to the Internet

The previous net neutrality post sparked some interesting discussions and one common theme was, “If the telcos are so evil, why aren’t they doing this already?” Another form of that is “Show me how the current system is broken.” As if on cue, Comcast...
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Monday, November 02, 2009 12:30 AM

Samsung BD-P1600 Review

My shiny new BluRay player arrived last week, and I thought I’d give you a review. I jumped on the HDDVD bandwagon as soon as the drive was launched for the Xbox360. That is now sitting in a pile of stuff that will probably get thrown away. I was hesitant...
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