"Hey, look at me"

Results of a new survey conducted by San Diego State University found that:
Nearly 60 percent of college students polled by San Diego State University agreed their age group uses social networking sites for narcissistic, self-promoting and attention-seeking reasons, it was announced today.
The poll also found that two-thirds of the respondents agreed their generation is [...]

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Getting your personal DNA profile

I’ve thought about personal DNA tests for a while now. On one hand, I’m extremely curious to know everything that I can know about myself. I feel that not knowing might somehow have a negative impact. On the other hand, I feel that knowing too much might change my lifestyle too much.
One of the [...]

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Star Wars Padawan Training Available in July 2009

I just discovered this unique and interesting toy via Scott Adams (Dilbert Blog). Well, it’s not so much a toy as it is just a cool device.
Wearing a custom built device that slips on your head, you can use your brain waves to move a sphere vertically in a container. There’s no wires and [...]

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2008 Year In Review

I started blogging in late 2007, so I didn’t compile a “Year in Review” post. I’ve broken the post into two main categories: Blogging and Life. The Blogging section will detail some of the statistics collected over 2008. The Life section will include a bit more about what I’ve done over the last 12 months.

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What’s your blog’s psychological profile?

A new web site (Typealyzer.com) is offering a blog analysis to determine your psychological profile. The analysis use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality types to categorize blogs. After running my blog through the analysis, it determined that the blog was ESTJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging).
I’ve taken this test before and this wasn’t the same outcome. [...]

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USMC Birthday and Veteran’s Day

Today marks the 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day.
233rd Marine Corps Birthday
Having served in the Marine Corps and participated in a few birthdays, I understand the importance of this event. One year, I just happened to be on a temporary assignment to a training course over the birthday [...]

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Are facts useless to U.S. voters?

A couple new articles came across my viewing today. The first was by Joe Miller of The Fact Check Wire, who posted a new article titled “Fact-Checking is useless.”
An [WaPo] article last September pointed to cognitive science research showing that debunking myths can have the effect of reinforcing the very myths you’re trying to [...]

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Psychoanalyzing a programmer

Last week, I came across a few articles written over at Lispy.WordPress.com. The first article was titled “Do you know any programmers that exibit these personality traits…?”
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if [...]

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More egoless programming discussion

“Egoless Programming” is an intriguing concept because it provides a way to understand yourself and fellow programmers. Knowing how someone thinks and why they think that way, can help you understand their decisions and personality. Also, realizing that you might fall into the same traps typical to programmers will help you avoid any possible [...]

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Blog update…

I seem to be in a bit of a dry spell for my blog. No posts in the last two weeks.
As most web developers or programmers know, the work is pretty boring. Once you grok programming, the rest is just busy work. There are a few moments when some unique problem needs an unique solution [...]

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