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Attacked by Malware

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:23:41 +0000

This site was attacked by a WordPress exploiting malware. Beware of any links to davtraff.com! They are a malware site!

I have cleaned up all malware links, updated WP, and hopefully everything will be back to normal.

Bijin-Tokei

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:21:10 +0000

I must admit, this might be offensive to some, but I think it is a pretty cute idea.

I might want to put this Google Gadget on the right side of this page, unless it offends too much.

RV’ing

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:25 +0000

I’ve lately gotten very interested in RV’ing. While my circumstances do not permit me to own one yet, I am learning as much as I can right now about RVs and intend purchase one when the time is right.

Sportsmobile is a very interesting company that allows you to custom-design your own RV on a van chassis. They even have a nice on-line tool to do so. Here are some results of my dreaming and playing around with the tool. All use the Dodge Sprinter chassis.

RB (Regular Body) Design. Very bare and minimal but at a little less than 20K (not including the price of the van) the most practical and most likely one I will get.

Sprinter EB Design

EB (Extended Body) Design.
LB (Long Body) Design.

WordPress and Comments

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:08:08 +0000

I admit I am sometimes very lazy to get things done. I have been ignoring the solutions that are available to prevent wordpress comment spamming, and had effectively turned off comments.

Having taken a second look, I see that Akismet should do for now, and I have activated it and commets again. I’ll see how many spam comments I get before going further.

For those non-bot commenters, thanks very much for your comments! I promise from now on to be more responsive.

MRI pics

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:56:20 +0000

I recently had an MRI done. I will post more pictures later, but this one was particularly cool because you can clearly tell my eyeballs.

Unfortunately for my critics, who undoubtedly think I am somewhat brain-dead, everything checked out fine.

Dwell Clicking on Windows

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:09:49 +0000

Like most people in the IT field I have been experiencing pain in my hands and arms when typing and especially when using the mouse. I have up to now been dealing by taking breaks and using two mice, moving one with the right hand and clicking on buttons with the left hand.

Recently I was playing with a linux laptop that had an interesting feature called Dwell Clicking, which clicks the mouse for you automatically when you hover the mouse over something. I thought that was a great feature, and google’d for something equivalent in Windows. There are a few, but the one that came up first and I like is the following: http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/dwell-click

It takes a little bit of time to get used to, but after a while it becomes natural. I originally set the delay before automatically clicking to a really small value, but that was affecting a lot of menu selection operations, so I have set it to a more moderate value and have trained myself to be more patient.

rtmpdump

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:35:45 +0000

rtmpdump is a utility to save to file video streams using the rtmp protocol. Hulu.com does, although recently they have changed their site to encrypt PIDs to easily do this.

Some interesting links

admin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:23:25 +0000

Found on a gps forum post.

Icon Editor IcoFX
AVI Video Converter Prism
DVD to MPEG-4 Converter HandBrake

Numpy (scipy) Tip Sheet Saved

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:58:49 +0000

This link had a really nice tip/cheat sheet for Numpy arrays. As of today the link appears to be broken, so I have saved it here. The image was unfortunately not saveable, so I have a PDF version of the page.

Working at a hospital

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:49:04 +0000

I recently moved to Boston, MA (partly for career reasons, mostly to live with my current significant other and make sure she is the one before we get engaged/married) and started working at MGH, a hospital. My biggest surprise that I have felt is how slow and bureaucratic things are. For almost a decade I have been working for the government and thought it was slow and bureaucratic, but in comparison to a hospital things moved at lightning speed.

Case in point: this is the start of my third week here, and I still dont have access to my office. Apparently I am being unreasonable and impatient to inquire about getting a key to the office at the Buildings and Grounds office, bypassing the (often unhelpful) administrative staff who keep telling me to just wait. I dont think two and a half weeks of waiting makes me impatient! The B&G staff, in contrast, was pretty helpful and even mentioned that they received the key request last Thursday (a full week after the admin staff said they will put in a request) and that the key should be ready by last Friday. Today is Monday and still no key…

I do not particularly care either way, as I will be leaving this job as soon as I am sure my SO is the one and we will both leave Boston for better work, but the principle of gatekeeping and slowing things down (for whatever petty reason admin staff have) is antithetical to the way I work and live.