Mental Masturbation, Musings, and Methods

So I haven't posted in months and have a short break between classes so I wanted to post some scripts that I wrote this year and have been particularly useful.  These are both specific to Duke's campus, but could easily be extended to other situations.  The first is backup.  In the past few months I [...]

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In the seemingly never endless wait yet quickly approaching wake of the Facebook redesign I decided I should update my Greasemonkey Quick Links script.  Unfortunately, hacking this new version of Facebook was not quite as simple as appending some HTML to a div.  Because of Facebook's push towards more AJAX integration, even their menu system [...]

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I know I already posted about this subject once, but I must again express my disappointment in Adobe.  After reading this post on Adobe's blog about their "cool new features" such as this embedable flash version of PDF's, I was again a bit surprised at their Adobe's simply silly buisness strategy.  Adobe is clearly trying [...]

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So it is 10:51 on June 26th and of course I am waiting around to go see Wanted at midnight.  Being the responsible consumer I am, I purchased 3 tickets for the showing 2 hours ago so as to make sure my friends and I had tickets before taking a single REM-cycle nap so I [...]

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A good while ago I heard about Adobe acquiring Buzzword, which was quite exciting since it definitely seemed like the most clean of the up and coming online document editing software.  Finally, just last week Adobe released a public beta of a suite of Buzzword, Share, and other online editing tools to go along with [...]

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