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My intertubes are clogged!

Last week I decided to rid myself of paid television and save myself about $90/mo. For the first day it worked fine, but now my internet has been down since Thursday. I’d like to think that normally I wouldn’t be as frustrated with them as I am, but after talking with them via chat and [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-24

Magical Sign Adventure http://bit.ly/H1WOV #
RT @5thWall: RT @kylefox: Interesting post about "Color and Reality" http://bit.ly/4m15I #
Gonna look at bikes tomorrow at Rick's Cycling! http://rickscycling.com/ Assuming a I wake up in time! #
#workout Yay! My arms aren't so sore anymore! #
Writing documentation is painful, but it can be very rewarding! #
Learned about msbuild and more about [...]

Time filter: C# Project files

Here’s a clightly cleaned up and better version of my time filter project thing, businesshours.zip. Archive contains code, build batch file, and binary.
Some changes this round:

Takes into account timezones.
No longer is missing a day in it’s calculations.
Debugging command line argument to track the inner workings.

Should I feel like it:

Code cleanup
Delete unused variables
Useful comments

Another notch in the belt

One more trip around the sun completed! So what’s happened this time around?

Earned my blue, purple, and purple trim belts in TKD.
Found a girlfriend.*
Proposed to aformentioned girlfriend.*
Moved out and on my own.
Started twittering.
Began my own SourceForge projcet.
Other amazing things I can’t recall!

*Highlight

New design? More like upgrade!

Last Thursday I upgraded the software for my site and it broke everything. So now I’m in the process of getting things back to the way they were…maybe. Katrina’s talked about wanting to do a design or background for my site so it may have some influence on what I do.
In the mean time, enjoy [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-15

Going offline for a few days. Goodbye Intertubes! #
Back to the drawing board. *sigh* #
Dairy Days FTW! #
RT @parenteau: RT @riotpixel: Brilliant & detailed shadow art. Created by British artists Tim Noble & Sue Webster http://tr.im/o9R9 #
Yeah, don't ever do this with PHP…unless your server is very high-end http://pastebin.com/m9a5b1dd #
Purple Trim FTW! #
THE DARTH SIDE: [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-06

6 MINUTES UNTIL THE WEEKEND! #
8 MINUTES UNTIL THE WEEKEND! #
RT @shaycarl: Do you want more Subscribers on You Tube? Then you HAVE to check this out! http://bit.ly/gkNnw #
Project Natal, Probably the most awesome Xbox peripheral to date. http://bit.ly/O6imW #
hmm, have a login script compile an exe and run it? it may have some [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-30

Attended my first Shavuot last night! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot #
Moved to my new work home. Currently in cubicle hell, but on the plus side I have two new 22″ widescreen monitors. #
Win the first NVIDIA ION motherboard! Contest rules at http://www.nvidia.com/ion Retweet and #winanion! #
Why is it that they come to me at 4:30pm to say “we’re [...]

Interesting searches for me, Josh Erickson

Looking over my Google Analytics this evening I came across these interesting searches people are making and in the process, finding my site.

josh erickson, oahu (Birth? Another one of me in Hawaii?)
josh erickson’s email address (Haha! Little do they know it’s really easy to guess!)
josh erickson bondurant (There must be a Josh Erickson in Wyoming?)
listen [...]

Trouble in Willmar: Commentary

While reading the comments on the WCTrib site people have made on the recent McDonald’s incident, I’m quite alarmed how racy the issue has become. A fact that saddens me, as talk like that only leads to more hate and loathing. However in the slew of comments discussing ethnics of the various people involved, one [...]