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Real Estate Tip: Condition, Location, Price, or Size

Stephen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:11:14 +0000

There’s a well-known principle in project planning that states a project can be done fast, good, or cheap, pick two. Basically, a project done quickly and correctly will not be cheap; a project done correctly and cheaply will not be done quickly; and a project done fast and cheap will not be good. I’ve worked [...]

Leaving the Sun

Stephen — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:28:31 +0000

After almost four years working at the Baltimore Sun, I am moving on to new things. I will be starting on May 10 as a Web Developer at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Four years. It seems like an unbelievably long time to me and [...]

One Year with iPhone 3G

Stephen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:51:26 +0000

At the dawn of the smart phone era, I considered purchasing a phone with Internet access, but quickly shied away from that idea when I realized how painful mobile web browsers were at the time. I made up my mind to wait until a smart phone with a true web browser was available. Enter the [...]

Announcing: Ordered Thumbnails

Stephen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:16:01 +0000

I’ve written over a dozen WordPress plugins in the past 18 months, but the Ordered Thumbnails plugin is the first one that I’ve submitted to the official WordPress Plugin Directory. The plugin became available mid-afternoon today, but it’s already been downloaded over 70 times. I’m not sure how the response compares to the rest of [...]

The Xbox Failure

Stephen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:17:09 +0000

On Monday, my Xbox succumed to the Red Ring of Death. I managed to fix the DVD drive on my Xbox, but in doing so I voided any warranty that still remained on it. While I knew that Microsoft would no longer fix the Red Ring issue for free, I didn’t realize that Microsoft will [...]

Media Bias

Stephen — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:19:13 +0000

The vast majority of the news we consume cannot be described as “impartial.” During the past year, subtle or overt bias appeared in almost all of the news coverage of the upcoming election that I’ve seen. It’s disturbing, it’s unfortunate, and it’s impossible to avoid. In what’s become an exceedingly rare occurrence, I agree with [...]

Polaroid Theme

Stephen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:55:31 +0000

It still needs some polish, but I think my new theme, Polaroid, can stand on its own at this point. Instead of working from the heavily modified templates of my old theme, I started with a fresh copy of the WordPress default template, making sure that I had widget capabilities for the sidebars and a [...]

Coming Soon

Stephen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:29:55 +0000

A new design and new content will be available here on Monday. I’ve been tinkering with a new design for a few months in Photoshop and coding a new template locally for the past week or so. It’s a major departure from the current design, which is nearing the three-year mark. The new design will [...]

Cuil Needs Work

Stephen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:01:46 +0000

The Interwebs are buzzing with Cuil news today, a new search engine developed by a few Google expatriates. Cuil (pronounced “Cool”) aims to index all web pages, something which Google does not do. Considering the buzz and the potential, I gave it a quick test run, but I was not impressed. My first search, like [...]

Xbox 360 on the Cheap

Stephen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:13:27 +0000

I’ve wanted an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3 since the moment they were sold, but I didn’t want to spend $400 or more to own one; I just don’t play video games enough to justify it. I had been leaning towards the PS3 because of its Blue-ray capabilities and the fact that the hardware [...]