Monthly Archives: January 2011

I often switch back and forth between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I can’t make up my mind! Chrome seems fast, even noticeably so right after switching from Firefox. But then I get annoyed by some little “niggle” of Chrome … Continue reading →

Wow, did I actually write all of this? And is it really 19 points higher than the second best answer? I hardly remember this time period, when the website was just starting with very few active members and I was … Continue reading →

I was told the story of how Splenda was discovered by my professor in swim conditioning class several semesters ago. But I had no idea that every artificial sweetener has something of an interesting discovery story connected to it! I … Continue reading →

*sigh* I’ve been particularly demotivated lately, but I finally decided to start figuring out how to develop an app for Mac and pretty quickly realized I’m in way over my head here. Xcode is a completely alien development environment for … Continue reading →

I’m trying to grasp a very slippery issue lately. Several users have OneNote 2007 installed and are sharing a notebook over the network (via a shared network drive). One of them will open OneNote and sometimes (randomly) a shortcut to … Continue reading →

Hooray for the Mac App Store! It’s not as exciting as I thought it would be, though I’m glad it came out earlier than expected. I wish it recognized more of my existing apps, and many (most) of them were … Continue reading →

Importing a CSV file which was saved from Excel 2007/2010 into MySQL using phpMyAdmin is easy once you know how! Just carefully follow all of these steps: 1. Sanitize the CSV file: Open the CSV file in a text editor … Continue reading →

Here’s my recipe for chicken and rice: 1 George Foreman grill, 1 pot with lid and spoon, 1 sharp knife to cut into the chicken, optionally something to flip chicken with1 small chicken breast, optionally marinated for flavor3/4 to 1 … Continue reading →

Happy New Year!