Yesterday as I walked to campus to give a presentation, I was thinking about what I need in my life to be more successful.  I decided I should make a living document of my wish list for future reference for me and the generous gift givers in my life (read: mom+dad). Here we go. Go to Post

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For Mina Yoo’s entrepreneurship 370 class, our group chose to do a study of Twenty20, a local company that makes wearable action sports cameras. Their products are becoming more popular and can often be seen in use on the slopes. Marc Barros, co-founder of the company, was kind enough to meet with us to answer some questions and agreed to let us use 2 of their ContourHD cameras for a month. We had a lot of fun using the cameras and getting footage to use in our presentation.
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This week we had an interesting speaker come in to ENTRE 370 and I thought I’d share some notes. Paul Anderson has worked for Amazon and Microsoft in Human Resources and now owns his own career development firm, ProLango.  He gave a very good talk on Monday; in my opinion, the best speaker we have had all quarter. Go to Post

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Apple announced its “latest creation” today and I have to say, I am not excited as I thought I would be.  I have been warming up to the idea of netbooks but I am not embracing this technology at the onset.
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Aaron and I were working on tuning the death board this week and we (he) discovered that the propeller was installed backwards! We fired it up and took it to the street for a ride. We got it up to 17 mph on flat ground and 21 mph down a hill. Under the current conditions, the death board now goes faster than I feel comfortable! Next step is to tighten the skateboard trucks and fine-tune the engine. A big step forward in the death board saga, here is a raw video shot today.
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It’s been a while, but the engine-powered skateboard I started working on at the end of summer runs great! I clocked it with the GPS in my iPhone, and it currently tops out at 10.2mph on flat ground. It has a much smoother ride than I had expected; I surprisingly felt rather safe riding it. Check out the engine detail after the break. Go to Post

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I taught my first section of CSE 142 today and I was trying to come up with a creative ice breaker to start the class. Micah and I searched Google but didn’t really find anything out of the ordinary. Then I came up with a killer idea. Try it out and let me know how it goes! Go to Post

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We had a need to keep track of when users were logging into our system. We use this data for sales, marketing and auditing the value of our site. The session logging is an extension of my previous post, Password-Protecting pages with goDaddy, PHP and mySQL server. Go to Post

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