Today is my birthday. It doesn't really feel that great though ( Read more... )

I am in grad school at Loyola, as a MS in Comp Sci candidate

I work downtown, at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, doing programming in financial algorithms most of the day

I live in Streeterville, around Ontario and St. Clair

I still miss spinach.

I just got back from a concert. This will be the year of many concerts for me.

I love spinach. I'm so bummed.

This is something that I've always figured was true, and so dislike the recent advertisements from car companies promoting Ethanol: http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm

I'm all for alternative fuels, but I don't think ethanol is the most appropriate avenue to pursue.

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Have you ever heard of Xanga?  It is another blogging / community system, like LiveJournal.  In my opinion, it is worse than LJ, and I don't like how it is closed-source, but that's not important right now.

I have made a script that will let you get an RSS feed of a Xanga account.  What this means is that you can now:

Syndicate a Xanga feed on ( Read more... )

Dear LJ Friends,

Could someone who has a paid account please do me a favor? I have done some less-than-rigorous programming recently, but I think it has been very fruitful. I need to test it before I put it out there though, and well... I need to see if someone can add it as a syndicated account on LJ.

Can anyone add
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So... about a month ago, I let my little brother use my Mp3 player, namely a Nomad Jukebox 3 (a very cool Mp3 player, especially notable for its advanced recording abilties in comparison with others in its class). It hasn't worked since that day ( Read more... )