Monthly Archives: August 2010

1,000 Pages in 5 days!

1000 Pages in 5! Days I officially finished under the dome at 4:33pm today. I conquered the beast at a breakneck pace a little over 200 pages per day. I don’t want to spoil the ending, I was however, totally … Continue reading

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1,000 Pages in 7 Days #2

1,000 in 7 Day 2 I acheived my personal goal of page 200 today in my hour long reading streak. I’m so glad I think I am on track to finish the whole book by next Monday. I am trying … Continue reading

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1,000 in 7

Today I am starting a long an arduous but slightly relaxing journey. I am going to try to read all of Stephen king’s “under the dome” in one week. The book is massive; 1070 pages of text. I am currently … Continue reading

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My Notetaking System

Recently I have begun on the noble quest to try to organize my notes. I had never thought about archiving important information in a centralized place until recently. It took me quite awhile to figure out which software did and … Continue reading

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Geany Review

In my limited C++ carreer I have been limited to using Windows to write and execute my code. I have now officially gone across platforms to Linux. Why? Because Linux is faster and it doesn’t take five seconds on my … Continue reading

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The Fountain Pen Freak

Currently I am waiting for my new bottle of Noodler’s Eel Blue fountain pen ink. This is the second bottle of ink I will own and I can’t wait to play with some new color! Now Noodler’s Bullletproof Black & … Continue reading

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The Killer Apps for Blogging

There are many tools that the common blogger relies on each day to write their articles and stay on track. These tools need to be simple enough to be easy to use, but not too simple that they are useless. … Continue reading

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VIM vs. EMACS

There has been a long debate over which text editor is Really king. VI or EMACS. Both have their loyal fans that scoff at the other side’s text editor. No one really can prove that one text editor is better … Continue reading

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