Category Archives: Technology

YouTorrent

With OINK gone, it has been hard to find good music torrent, especially for less mainstream music. Things in this area have gotten a little easier with the launch of YouTorrent, a torrent search  engine that compares torrents in real time so you can choose the best torrent for any album, tv show, movie, or [...]
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XKCD: Security

    This reminds me of my days in ECS150 where we had to modify the FreeBSD kernel. Actually this pretty much reminds me of all my experience with installing or upgrading Unix based systems (expect for Mac OS X).
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New Job.

Tomorrow morning I start my first day as a Web Developer at Mobile Messenger. Here is a fitting xkcd comic in honor of the occasion.
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Myspace: Time to move on.

Don’t you love how its nearly impossible to read some peoples Myspace pages because the background picture is visible through the transparent boxes? Isn’t it cool how random hot girls who you don’t know constantly send you spam friend requests? It’s a testament to Myspace’s awesomeness that even the owners of 23″ wide screen monitors still [...]
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Facebook Application release 2

I’ve been learning a bit more today, and I’ve made my application completely object oriented, as well as integrating both brodrigu.net and trippin blogs (denoted by either a blue or green icon respectively). If everything goes according to plan, this post should also add a news feed item so everyone will know I have written [...]
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My first Facebook application

I decided to try out the new facebook f8 development platform today by writing my own facebook application. I got a very basic app running that displays the most recent blog posts from brodrigu.net. I hope to improve it tomorrow by adding the my trippin’ blog, and making updates automatic. This was also my first [...]
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Brad’s Trippin

I rolled out my new travel blog trippin.brodrigu.net today. I decided I should seperate my travel blog entries from my normal ones, since they will vary significantly in content (my current content variation is bad enough). One exciting thing about the new blog is the geotagging feature I added to the wordpress installation. I can easily [...]
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How to add your Netflix queue to Wordpress

I recently added my Netflix queue to my W sidebar, and though a quick tutorial on how to do it would be in order. First, make sure you have updated to the most recent version of Wordpress (2.1 at the time or writing), it comes bundled with the Magpie RSS parser. Next all you have to [...]
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Netflix RSS

Utilizing the RSS feeds that NetFlix provides and the Magpie RSS parser that is packaged with Wordpress, I can now display my NetFlix queue in the sidebar of my blog right beneath my flickr photos. I hope you all enjoy laughing at some of the titles you might see. EDIT: To find out how to add [...]
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finetune

I just discovered an awesome social music site called finetune. It allows you to create playlists from a large selection of artists, and share these playlists with your friends. Here is mine: http://www.finetune.com/user/brodrigu
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