The Future Arrives: The iPad

The Future Arrives: The...

The iPad. So it doesn’t cure cancer, AIDS, and solve world hunger, but the Apple tablet was overhyped to begin with. Regardless, I am quite pleased with the result. I feel like I did after I saw the iPhone 3G S — it’s cool, it’s in the right direction for...
Active Disconnect: Giving the Abstract Form

Active Disconnect: Givi...

I am an emotional person, many times to a fault. Films, art, technology, anything, I base my perspectives on a more thin-sliced, emotional attachment to the object, later utilizing my analytical mind to determine the constituents of my feelings. My emotions, my sentiments, define...
An Intro to the Shell: The Basics

An Intro to the Shell: ...

I am a diehard Linux and Mac enthusiast. One of the key reasons for this is the shell environment that both operating systems share. A powerful shell is key to any quality operating system and allows you to perform actions that can be considerably more power than a GUI. Recently,...
5,000 Tweets: A Reflection

5,000 Tweets: A Reflect...

In mid 2007, through a Ruby on Rails podcast, I discovered an up-and-coming service called, “Twitter”. Twitter was a service that made sense to me. Fascinated, I saw its potential, and nearly a month later I had the beginnings of a personal network of acquaintances and...
My Current iPhone Theme

My Current iPhone Theme...

This is a custom theme I put together from several other themes, replacing the wallpaper and tweaking the lock screen and SpringBoard strings. AKPC_IDS += "203,";Popularity: 49% [?]
Vimeo: Get It Together

Vimeo: Get It Together...

A post on the Vimeo forums a couple weeks ago has begun to cause quite a stir. Vimeo has changed their Terms of Service to state: “VIMEO shall be entitled to unrestricted use of any Submission for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the...
Counting the Days

Counting the Days...

My life will radically change for the better this year. This coming July, the lease on my apartment will end. I will be faced with a few options: I can renew the lease, relocate within Champaign, move in with Andrew and Stephanie in Springfield, move in with Nathan Philips in Springfield,...
One Step Closer

One Step Closer...

I finally have a good start to my first animation. I have been wanting to do an animation for some time. Unfortunately, like with many of my aspirations, it was put on the back burner. I began talking about it more regularly again a couple months ago — brainstorming, conceptualizing....