http://thoughts.bjsintay.com What I'm doing while I sleep. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:56:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some credit card rewards programs are lame.  Lame, lame, lame.  I found out that my business credit card (which sees a lot of use in monthly server and IT personnel expenses) is no different.  I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get a rebate or ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/07/22/extracting-cash-from-credit-card-rewards/ 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 ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/05/28/death-cab-for-cutie-narrow-stairs-augustana-cant-love-cant-hurt/ 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 ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/05/22/cloning-your-pets/ 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 ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/05/20/non-recursive-matlab-code-for-positivenegativezero-matrix-elements/ 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 ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/05/15/sad-day-leechftp-surrenders-to-filezilla/ I've bought a few CDs on iTunes "Plus" recently - all of which I promptly burnt to a CD and listened to that way.  For me, iTunes's puny 128kbps standard encoding is too poor to enjoy much of the music that I like.  So when iTunes Plus, featuring "DRM-free music tracks ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/04/24/itunes-plus-what-enlightenment-on-the-m4p/ OK - my laziness caught up with me.  I admit it.  Maybe you could call it neglect, I don't know.  I just did not have updating WordPress, the software the runs this site, up high on my priority list of to-do's. I discovered that someone (probably a bot) decided to take-over ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2008/04/14/busted/ I know I'm a bit late in reviewing Death Cab for Cutie's 2005 debut (non-indie) album, but I've just recently discovered this great disk.  Plans is an excellent emo-ish rock album performed by a seasoned group of musicians.  My favorite tracks include "What Sarah Said," "Summer Skin," and "Soul Meets Body."  ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2007/05/21/death-cab-for-cutie-plans/ acumulator auto anvelope camioane rezervari bilete tren boxe creative inspire camere digitale benq ceas cu mp3 atlasib curier decodare arhiva messenger nume domenii gresie arad usi si ferestre garduri vile oferta gazduire sejur grecia hotel mamaia incarcator camera laptopuri ieftine monitoare lcd wide muntii bucegi scumpiri tigari prestari servicii top siteuri traducere engleza transporturi mobila Until June released its first full-length album (self-titled) this past week after years of hard work to get their ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2007/04/24/until-june-until-june-self-titled/ The United Nations has released a report blaming the world's cow herds as the single-most greatest cause of the depleting environmental conditions... global warming, acid rain, deforestation, reef destruction, and oceanic "dead zones" to name a few.  Al Gore, you can stop blaming the Republicans.  Approximately 18% of all greenhouse gases are blamed ... http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/2007/04/19/holy-cow-cattle-belching-harder-on-environment-than-cars/