David's Mumblings

Blog Atom Feed Updated

category: General
For those of you who use my blog's Atom 1.0 feed, it just got a little better: it now has a cute picture for the blog as a feed logo, and more interestingly perhaps adds the category tag to each article. I also double-checked that the feed validates as proper Atom 1.0, which it still does (as of this writing, at least!). ^ TOP

Posted on 02/28/08 at 20:08:34 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Sunlight

category: General
Today was my first time out during the daytime in, oh, almost a week. I've been cooped up inside working on several assignments, emerging mainly at night to either grab dinner or go work with my teammates. It was quite pleasant being outside in the sun for a change! Of course, I've been seeing the sun rise and set a lot from inside, but it's nice being out... Too bad I finished my day at night again. Oh well. ^ TOP

Posted on 02/28/08 at 20:06:13 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Search engine crawlers

category: Programming
On February 17th, the Google crawler hit my blog 243 times, and PowerSet's crawler got me for some huge number as well. I don't have the exact number, but my log went from 12k to 210k -- I aggregate the Google hits into a single count, so the only change was PowerSet. (11kb is roughly 50 hits, so 210k-12k=198k is approximately 900 hits.) Not entirely sure why both hit the same day, or why they (esp. Powerset) hit so much in one day.

Too bad PowerSet is still closed and I can't even try searching for myself there! At least I can search for and easily find myself on Google. :-) ^ TOP

Posted on 02/20/08 at 16:26:09 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Official emails and Trial Versions

category: Opinions
I get email from AUP's alumni office from time to time. I've noticed the following message a few times:

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E-Mail sent using the Free Trial Version of WorldMerge, the fastest and easiest way to send personalized e-mail messages. For more information visit http://www.world-merge.com



890172

You would think that a university could either just buy the damn program or otherwise obtain a proper mailing list manager... ^ TOP

Posted on 02/08/08 at 09:03:13 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Router Marathon

category: School
I have 32.5 hours to complete a software router for IP packets on an Ethernet network. Should be all kinds of fun. Whee. Oh, and sometime in there I have to eat and sleep, too... ^ TOP

Posted on 02/07/08 at 03:17:52 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Primary Elections

category: General
Well, I just voted in the primaries. It only took me two hours and fifteen minutes... sigh. This year, not only have we gone back to paper (everybody knows that you can't miscount paper) but also, for some reason, they decided to have the entire campus vote in one location (as opposed to two the previous years). So there were a lot of people. Read More → ^ TOP

Posted on 02/05/08 at 21:48:46 by dchaley (David Haley)
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