http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/ The everlasting blog of Fred & Company Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:09:19 +0000 en-us 10 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=31 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=31#comments Okay, so I'm sure everyone who is connected to this world in any way knows that Google is slowly taking over the planet. What once started as a research project for a student at Stanford has now become the most expensive - and possibly the most recognizable - brand in the world. The days of Google being just some search engine are long over as they now provide an unlimited sort of utilities and services such as Google Earth, Picasa, YouTube, and of course... the ever-growing popular Gmail. Gmail is very well known for it's huge amount of space provided to all users; I am currently using 372MB's (or 5%) of my total 7.2GB's available. As if the 7.2GB's of storage (along with all the other features) wasn't enough... Google has just recently released a new add-on (technically a "lab") for Gmail. It is aptly named "Mail Goggles". Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:40:01 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=30 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=30#comments Yesterday a friend of mine was having some very strange errors with a program he was writing in Java for his data structures and algorithms class. He was writing a text-based address book manager as a demonstration for using trees to act like a database. The code that was causing issues was the part of the code that allowed you to change a contact's details. After carefully verifying the code, we knew that Contact was a valid class and its methods worked properly, and ContactList was also working properly. Here is the troublesome section: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:31:23 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=29 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=29#comments So for my first real entry I have decided to upload a few of my photographs taken during a house fire two weekends ago. At 6am my friend Brian yelled to my roommate, boyfriend, friend Spencer and I whom were still awake, for unspoken reasons, that there was a fire down the street. To our surprise three houses two blocks away had caught on fire. Recent news reports have stated that it had started due to a gang initiation...I'm not even going to get into that one. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:07:12 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=28 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=28#comments First order of business - personal things. Florida was great, and was very relaxing. It was also the first trip involving air travel in recent memory in which I've avoided any major snags. Things have been quiet at home and I can't believe it's only a week until I go back to school. I've had several topics on my mind to write about lately but I just haven't had the initiative to... blog it out. Hopefully I'll actually sit down and write something coherent about those topics soon. I'm also hoping I can get some of my friends/contributors to submit some supplementary content to keep the blog hopping. I'm hoping to optimize the site more for search engines and fix a few bugs, maybe try to promote some more. For now, though, I have several music-related topics at hand. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:08:59 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=27 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=27#comments Venice is a small island in southwestern Florida, south of Sarasota. Known for gated communities of condos, the island has its own airport, complete with a variety of flying schools. Venice is primarily populated by more elderly folks, and experiences a dramatic population decrease in the summer. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:20:46 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=26 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=26#comments Maybe this is something that has been around forever and I just missed it. Whatever. I think this is a really cool idea. Blik. They are like decals that you stick on your walls... but then you can take them off. And they have some really awesome designs. Unfortunately they are a little bit pricey, but it could all be worth it in the end if they last a long time. I'm thinking the suite I'm living in this year is gonna have to invest in some to increase the awesome level of our already outstanding living situation. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:59:17 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=25 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=25#comments Brad Heintz has written a wonderful little web app for practicing guitar called GuitarCardio. The app will let you set a few parameters like key, scales to use, and difficulty, and will generate guitar tablature containing the desired number of exercises. Brad's idea is brilliant for mixing up your practice routine on a daily basis, and I look forward to working more with his application. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:27:14 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=23 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=23#comments As I was browsing the internet last night I came across a great article detailing a way to speed up the boot times on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. My startup experiences with this relatively new Vista notebook have been favorable, but have tended toward the sluggish side of things recently; thus, I gave it a shot. In short, the fix involves opening msconfig, a Windows utility commonly used for managing startup, and changing a setting in the control panel to let the system use more than one core when it starts up. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:47:58 +0000 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=22 http://www.lurkingfridge79.net/blog/view.php?id=22#comments Today celebrates the completion of my brand-new website/blog! As with most things on the internet, the software probably isn't entirely complete yet and I will be adding little bits and pieces in the future, but here is the important 90%! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:22:42 +0000