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Archive for January, 2009

Digital Art: Introduction

I’m excited to be blog­ging about dig­i­tal art this semes­ter for Fine Arts D210. Lit­tle does my pro­fes­sor know that I already try to main­tain a reg­u­lar blog on my per­sonal web­site. Unfor­tu­nately, she won’t let me use that for this class so I’ll be cross­post­ing entries here andthere. I guess if any­thing I’ll get more expo­sure and […]

Easily Annotate PDFs with Skim

Today, a friend of mine asked if I would read over her per­sonal state­ment for grad school and I wanted to give her solid, easy to com­pre­hend feed­back. I’ve never had luck using com­ment­ing in word proces­sors and have seen anno­ta­tions in PDFs before but never found a good pro­gram to do them myself. Luckily, […]

Duke Energy Online Services: FAIL

I’ve been unable to log into Duke Energy’s site for over 6 months so today it finally annoyed me enough to call them again about it. Before, they said they were hav­ing trou­bles with the site and that they would be fixed shortly. I assumed after all this time they just hadn’t fixed their site. […]

Stop with the “New Phone/Need Numbers” Facebook Groups and Events

Not a day goes by where one of my friends hasn’t cre­ated or joined one of those annoy­ing “lost my phone, got a new one, need num­bers” groups or events on Face­book. While it’s funny to read what dumb drunken act destroyed most people’s phones, it’s annoy­ing they don’t use Facebook’s built in phone­book. It’s […]