My Thoughts and Ramblings
The popularity of short URL services, like tinyurl.com and bit.ly, has grown due to the character limits of Twitter. These services pose a security risk because they could be used to conceal the addresses malicious sites. Users are being taught …
Finished reading Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules focuses on the contemporary business buzzword multitasking. In a chapter on attention Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, shows how the brain can really only focus on one thing at a time. …
Finished reading The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The Accidental Billionaires is about the founding of Facebook and centers on the founders Mark Zuckerberg’s and Eduardo Saverin’s friendship as Harvard undergrads. They each shared both academic brilliance in math and …
Finished reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged. The Fountainhead is about Howard Roark and his struggles as an architect. Roark combats a successful rival architect, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. In the …
I just enabled WPTouch on PatrickTalmadge.com. WPTouch provides optimized formatting for the iPhone and other mobile devices. I figured now that nearly everyone I know has a smartphone my site should be optimized for mobile phones. WPTouch is extremely easy …
Wow… It’s been crazy these last 5 days. The morning of October 15th at 8:30am Salli called to tell me her water broke and to get home ASAP. Once I made it home we gathered our stuff and headed to …
Finished reading Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Camille Preaker, institutionalized as a teen for self-mutilation, now works for a second class Chicago newspaper. When a girl is murdered and another disappears in Camille’s hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, her editor …
Problem Step Recorder is a neat new tool built into Windows 7. On a Windows 7 machine type PSR in the search box and Problem Step Recorder will open. Click “Start Record” and reproduce the problem/error/step. Once PSR is running you can add comments …
Finished reading All Souls’ Night (Blood Ties, Book 4) by Jennifer Armintrout. Book four ends the Blood Ties series as Carrie and Nathan must stop the Soul Eater now that the Oracle is out of the way. The Soul Eater …
Finished reading Ashes to Ashes (Blood Ties, Book 3) by Jennifer Armintrout. Book three picks up the pace when the Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement headquarters is destroyed during the Oracle’s escape from captivity. She’ll stop at nothing to turn the …