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Map of the Japan earthquakes

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Ryan

I knew about the aftershocks from an earthquake, but I didn’t realize there were so many. The first time I went to the following site there were 555 listed. About 5 minutes later when I went back to get the … Continue reading →

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a break from a larger web app I’m working on and this weekend kicked out a couple of WordPress plugins that I’ve had on my idea file for a while now. The first is called rTwit and lets you … Continue reading →

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Christmas card for the geeks

Posted on December 18th, 2010 by Ryan

If I still had time, this would be going on my Christmas cards.  Guess there’s always next year… via: http://www.xkcd.com/835/

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Predicting the stock market with Twitter

Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Ryan

Looks like there may be more to Twitter than just a list of what everybody’s cat is doing. Researchers at Indiana University used 10 million tweets to gauge the collective mood of the users and have been able to predict … Continue reading →

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JayCut – Online video editor

Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Ryan

Haven’t had a chance to play around with it much, but JayCut.com looks pretty slick. It’s an online video editor written in Flash so you can do your editing without leaving your browser. Probably not great for the 20 gigs … Continue reading →

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Where Americans are moving

Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Ryan

Cool use of technology and data mining. Forbes.com has a map that lets you click on a county and see where people are moving into and out of that county. Red is out of the county and red is in … Continue reading →

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CompSci Minor and employment

Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Ryan

Came across a new blog to add to my reader last week called CompSci Woman. I’m always on the lookout for articles to give my students that show computer science as something other than the Office Space view of a … Continue reading →

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TinEye – Finding your images on the web

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Ryan

Came across a new search engine called TinEye last week.  It lets you either upload or paste a link to an image and it searches its index looking for the same image.  For those that make money off of their … Continue reading →

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WordPress release archive

Posted on August 16th, 2009 by Ryan

Didn’t know this was around, but looking for older versions of WordPress to test plugins against I found the WordPress release archive.  Looks like you can find pretty much every release they’ve put out.

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Switching from eCommerce to free with ads

Posted on August 16th, 2009 by Ryan

A few years ago I got on a kick making simple Photoshop templates and threw up a website to try and sell a few. I had no illusions that my templates were of the level that were being sold for … Continue reading →

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