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2009 Wrap Up

It’s been a long year, and a longer decade (don’t give me that crap about it being another year), but it’s coming to a close. I just got back to Louisville from my Christmas vacation in Asheville, NC. Most of … Continue reading

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Home Again

I got back into Louisville this (or was it yesterday?) morning. I’m suffering a pretty bad case of jetlag, mostly due to (I think) being awake for 30 hours without sleep. I left my apartment around 4pm on the first … Continue reading

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Building a Hackintoshed Netbook

Last weekend, my Thinkpad was having some trouble. Its battery was shot, the DVD drive was beginning to sound like a jet engine, and my hard drive was getting Disk I/O errors. In the weeks before that, I had started … Continue reading

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Why you should insure everything

Last week, I got a call from my roommate who is currently living at my house in Louisville.  He had come home to find the house broken into and quite a few things missing, among them my TV, PS3, Xbox … Continue reading

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Dammit, new project time

So, FlickrShow worked great… for one album. Problem is, if you want to embed more than one slideshow in a page (possible if it was say, multiple entries on a blog), you can’t. The first element will just sit there … Continue reading

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Death to Flash

When I first built this site a couple of days ago, I used some freely available flash widgets to get it up and running quickly. These widgets embedded information from a variety of sources, including Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, and Scribd. … Continue reading

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New Blog

This will be my last post on collegegeek.org, as I’m moving to a new host and a new domain name.  My new blog, hosted at SquareSpace, can be found at http://blog.zachtib.com. This site will remain in read-only mode (no new … Continue reading

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My Review of Windows 7

A couple of days ago, I got my hands on a copy of Windows 7 Professional through MSDNAA.  Both of my computers were already running on the release candidate and have now been updated to the final build, both with … Continue reading

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Macbook Pro

So, I finally got my offer letter from VMware and started looking a little more seriously at new laptops. As I mentioned earlier, I’m interested in the 13″ Macbook Pro, however with Core i7 Mobile coming out in (supposedly) the … Continue reading

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My Short Summer

I’m in the middle of my short break following Summer semester at UofL.  I’m very happy to finally have classes done with for the semester, and look forward to (hopefully) going back to work soon.  I’ve been talking to people … Continue reading

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