Author Archives: Richard Carter

*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!

You know how when someone tries to talk to you and you’re mostly asleep, you usually reply with a gibberish sentence? I wonder if you’re actually having coherent thoughts and your brain’s “speech processor” is asleep, unable to translate your … Continue reading →

Many of my all-nighters are terrible and I end up regretting them, as necessary as they usually are. But tonight hasn’t been all too bad. I want to make note of the various things I’m doing, so that I can … Continue reading →

I cast aside Twitter and Google Reader, at least for the moment. Maybe it’ll last; in the case of Google Reader, probably not, though I do need to trim down my subscriptions again. But I’m really wondering if Twitter is … Continue reading →

My other exam weeks have been relaxing breaks at the end of a busy semester. They were the calm AFTER the storm; they were the time that I played video games (and almost every one, I got hooked on RuneScape … Continue reading →