If you have a Wordpress installation that you control, I highly recommend installing the WPtouch iPhone Theme. It’s painless to install, easily configurable, and creates a fast-loading and intuitive mobile interface for your blog. See a screenshot on twitpic.

Now that I have a shiny new iPhone, one of the many things I’m doing is finding cool free apps to extend my phone’s funtionality. There are, of course, an incredible number of paid apps as well, but being a poor college student, I’ll focus on the free ones that you may not have heard [...]

We’ve all been somewhere (be it Starbucks, your work, a hotel) where we didn’t have access to the router to allow certain ports through. Some programs or tools require a direct connection or LAN access. Here’s the solution: Hamachi. It allows you to set up a ‘virtual network’ of several computers, allowing you to connect [...]

One of the quirks about my laptop is that the numpad is accessed by a mysterious [fn] key that doesn’t “show up” internally in Windows. As such, it’s apparently difficult to write commands that use it or any of the features it accesses. Instead of Send {fn}{F7} to decrease the brightness, for example, I’d have [...]

This is my final paper for CS 4001, Computing and Society, taught by Michael McCracken. The prompt was to select a topic and write an 8-10 page paper on it; specifically, to form a cohesive argument, taking into account positions from all sides of an issue.
A surprisingly large number of people in my senior-level computer [...]