Random Thoughts
Google’s Homepage Now Loads in Pieces
Google seems to have updated there homepage recently. The change is subtle (well, maybe not to geeks!) and it is an optimization for low speed connections. The essentials of the search page load instantly in the first request. This entails a the ubiquitous Google logo as well as the search form with only the character input HTML widget and no [...]
Writing from my BlackBerry Bold
Greetings! I am excited to be posting from my new BlackBerry Bold. While I haven’t been posting too often recently, Wordpress for BlackBerry has revived me and given me new capabilities when it comes to Internet communications. The BlackBerry Wordpress application is simple to use but elegant elegant in design. Wordpress, of course, has an [...]
RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting is no more!
There use to be a small link at the top of this page that led you to an unfinished, ghost town of a site called RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting. I intended it to be a “catch all” company that would provide casual small business (or users of any type) users who wanted a web presence or [...]
Why I will never write code for a social networking site or mobile phone or AIR, etc.
First off let me clarify what I mean by the title and start off by mentioning that I have only looked at the APIs I talk about and as the post implies, never actually written code using them.
I’ve only taken a few programming courses and most of my knowledge of computers comes from the vast [...]
The Universe: an image from National Geographic
A map of the universe provided from National Geographic:
EU Regulations on Microsoft now seem absurd; my anti-anti-Microsoft self
It’s just another Saturday morning and the geek in me checks for tech news. In the headlines is the puzzling headline: “Microsoft: No browserless Windows 7 after all.” I’m starting to get sick of all this anti-Microsoft bullshit (apparently Linus Torvalds, the founder or Linux, agrees). If you wanted to analyze Apple and Microsoft we [...]
New phase of blogging
I’m in an interesting place in my life right now but unfortunatly it involves the sacrifice of more frequent blog posting. My blog is my most cherished web application and yet I must give up writing often, perhaps only one entry per week. I am maxed out between full time summer school and a full [...]
Back online after moving into my lovely new apartment
Moving time! As a college student, moving has been a hallmark of my time at Tufts University. A few days ago I moved across campus, which is only half a mile as evident in the map below.
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But even after relocating such a short distance, the patterns of my life have completely changed. Different [...]
Playing with Photoshop
Does this remind you of that Obama change poster? The one some silly artist that visited Tufts copied and used for his own purposes.
UPDATE JUNE 6, 2009. Click the “Read the rest of this story” link below to read the update.
Zombies invade Tufts
Okay, so the Zombie Apocalypse isn’t here quite yet, but my best buddy Ben Appel recently directed a short that portrays his take on such an event at Tufts University. First, some business: I have a small role in the movie so take all my comments with that grain of salt (same fucking grain every [...]
