Car Stereo Followup

A while ago, I posted about how I was trying to replace my car stereo. It seems that that experiment will soon become irrelevant. I took my car in for some repairs recently, and it brought to my attention that maybe the cost of repairing the car will become too…

Joining App Dot Net

Not too long ago, I heard some news about an alternative to Twitter that was being released called App Dot Net. People were touting it as a superior service because it required people to pay to use the service and as such, did not have ads. Its terms of service…

Packt Publishing Authorship Offer

I was reviewing my email today, when I found one that caught my eye. At first, I assumed it was spam that had missed the filter, but a quick glance showed that it was actually a serious email. The text of it is below. To: cleaver DOT john DOT k…

Google Reader Discontinued

Today, Google announced that as part of its spring cleaning of lesser used services, it would be discontinuing Google Reader. The blog post that announces it cites the lowered use of Google Reader recently and that Google is trying to pare down its services so that it can offer higher…

Car Stereo Replacement

I spend a decent portion of each day (about 1 hour) in my car. Sometimes, as when I am taking long trips, I spend a much more time. Often when in my car, I want to make some sort of use of the time that I am spending sitting in…

Work Project Refactoring

One of my main projects at work is basically a web front end for a little bit of the data available in our main application. When I was first hired I was given my first month to go about writing this application. I did not have much experience with web…

Business Research

I have stared doing some research for our business and I find the whole ordeal rather exhausting. Currently, I am looking at competitor's products so that we can get an idea of how saturated the market is, what features everyone has, what ones are "new" features,…

School Project To Business

Last night, I was celebrating my 23rd birthday, and as sometimes happens, my group of friends started talking about projects that we were working on or wanted to work on. I had been thinking for some time about a project that I had been working on in school with one…