Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs & Augustana - Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt
I listen to a ton of music, so when hot young groups (especially) put out second albums I take note. The sophomore release is bound to either make or break a band. Two recent selections (among many!) are the popular Augustana and Death Cab for Cutie releases which I purchased from Amazon.com’s MP3 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in CDs, Music, Reviews by BJ Sintay
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Cloning Your Pets
Do you have a pet that you love so much that the thought of parting from them one day is unbearable? Best Friends Again is here to help. Yesterday, BFA began registration for an auction that many dog owners like myself will covet - the 5 lucky winners will have their dogs cloned.
Bids start at [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Science by BJ Sintay
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Non-recursive MATLAB Code for Finding Positive/Negative/Zero Matrix Elements and Their Bit Masks
MATLAB (the scientific computing software) has a lot of built-in functions for doing various matrix operations quickly without using loops (for, while, etc.). When you’re computing vast amounts of data, this can save a lot of time as each loop iteration eats compute cycles.
Today I needed a function that returned only the positive elements of a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Science, Software, Tech-talk by BJ Sintay
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Sad Day - LeechFTP surrenders to FileZilla
It’s a sad day.
LeechFTP finally refused to cooperate with my Windows setup. After trying various work-arounds, disabling all firewalls, etc. I have come to the conclusion that it just won’t play nice with Vista. I had it working for about 7 months with no problems.
Tonight I had to install FileZilla just to download some files [...]
