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Professor Eric Shea-Brown has written up a nice website explaining what we’re doing with the computational neuroscience modeling.

I am finally getting around to starting my graduate school applications.. and overall having a lot of fun with them.

I was home on Thanksgiving Break with Sharvil, and we decided to revive some old computers.

I must be getting more popular on some search engines somewhere.

I think I’ve already told most of my friends about this… but it’s just way too awesome to not have documented somewhere.

As always, a picture’s worth a thousand words:

Sharvil and I started watching Numb3rs today, from the pilot episode.

I should have written this up sooner, but I guess it worked out well because the last of it didn’t happen until just recently.

One of the secret gems at the University of Washington is the minor in applied math option.

There are tons of posts on the internet about what to do with older computers.

This must be about the 1 millionth time someone’s written a blog post about this, because I waded through a ton of them to get ones that worked.

In spite of the fact that a lot of people seem to loathe the colorized ls functionality, I sortof grew up on it(so to speak).

In all of my time with wordpress, I’ve pretty much stuck to the default themes, figuring that what I had to say was a bit more important than what I was doing with it.

Like I said in ‘~traviscj/ lives!’

I finally got my blog running again.

Friday started off a pretty decent day in Brazil.

Sorry for not getting this updated a little bit sooner, but it has been an eventful week sortof.

So Monday morning was really lazy.

I finally made it to Brazil.

Well, I made it at least as far as Atlanta.

David and I were working on our Math381 model, and I was getting frustrated because the data we collected and the results from the simulation were not lining up properly, which was quite frustrating.

I know that about every other iPhone owner has posted to their blog about this and almost a month ago already, but I’ll throw my own take into the mix.

Some more ways Acronis fails, just for the record: Completely useless log files.

I have been meaning to write for almost two weeks that I’ve got my Visa back from the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco, which is pretty cool.

The story goes something like this: Originally, we used external hard drives plugged in via USB to our servers to back up our servers.

The week before my sister’s wedding, I was tasked with writing a paper on Dijkstra’s Algorithm for my Discrete Mathematical Modeling class.

This past weekend I had the honor of being the Best Man at my sister Crystal’s wedding.

Ray(the boss) and I were chatting about how we should implement our secure upload page.

One of my tasks at work is to write up a security checklist of sorts, and from one of Ryan’s notes, I happened across the NSA’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guide.

This is going to be sortof a short post with not much worldwide applicability, but I just learned a couple of weeks ago that Odegaard’s Copy Center will bind a packet of papers for fairly cheap, it turns out.

June 3 was a fantastic day, though I didn’t know it at the time.

So, I finally got fed up with never having a screwdriver when I needed it unexpectedly.

I’m a little bit late announcing this, but….

I’ve realized that a lot of people are nervous about differential equations.

After I had finally convinced myself to get out of bed this morning to go to my ACMS seminar, I quickly checked my email and my heart sank a little.

No, not that dizzy, spinning sensation.

I’ve been playing around with Python a bit more over the break, mostly because I want to be lazy in my code-writing for the forseeable future, plus I’d like to give NumPy a shot, but I want to have a solid background before trying that.

TrueImage is… well… Quite the piece of software.

So, another day, another (minor) problem.

So, rrdtool is pretty sweet, but it’s somewhat of a pain to set up.

I have apparently been missing out.

Subversion added a tag in their bug-tracking database of projects that are ‘bite-sized’: self-contained, somewhat independent fixes that should happen.

Or not.

So it’s almost the end of Winter Quarter 07 at the University of Washington.