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Big Bang Theory Quotes

Attending a introductory course to web programming, we were asked to develop a final project containing some basic components such as cascading stylesheets, form management, database insertion and server-side programming. Being a fan of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, I figured making a quote database might be a concept as good as any, and [...]

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V7N Guestblog: Getting Savvy With the Blogosphere

Today I had the distinct pleasure of having some material published as a guest blog post on the V7N Blog. The topic of the post is the lingo used in the world of blogging, and the target is the novice or intermediate blogger who might still wonder about some of the terms being tossed around. [...]

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Darfurnica – Idealist Attacked by Fashion Giant

In a deeply disturbing case, soulless fashion giant Louis Vuitton bares it’s fangs, or rather it’s over-dimensional wallet, at a philanthropically engaged arts student from Denmark. If icons such as Paris Hilton can gain such vast amounts of media exposure from carrying around shirt-clad chihuahuas and fancy bags, might not the same concept work for [...]

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Printers, everywhere!

You might be one of many who naturally assume that printers, those are used for printing words onto paper. I myself belonged to that group until one or two years ago, but as you will soon find out, that is a truth of yesteryear. Plastics getting into the picture What changed this point of view [...]

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The Towers of Hanoi

The Towers of Hanoi is one of the more famous mathematical problems, used in teaching everything from recursive algorithms and time complexity to being implemented in popular games such as Black & White, and even ordinary tabletop games. The problem was invented by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883. Allegedly, he was told of [...]

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The Problem of the Eight Queens

As a brief exercice in traversing bidimensional matrixes and simulating such matrixes in unidimensional vectors, one could attempt to solve the problem of the Eight Queens. In this post I will present my solution, written in the programming language Python, along with some explanatory comments. The Problem We begin with a vacant 8×8 grid such [...]

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Server migration – Hello VPS and Nginx

In preparation of moving abroad, I have finally migrated my content to a virtual private server. In the same move, I also switched over to Nginx from Apache2.

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A Wake Up Call – The Implications of Industrial Food

Every once in a while, we trip headfirst over that documentary that leaves us staring blank into the screen, processing a horrifying yet obvious truth we have always sort-of known about, yet failed completely at realizing the vastness of. Food, Inc. is one of those. I urge you to watch it.

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Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web!

Comemmorating the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee published a thought-provoking article which I could not help but to write a rant about.

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Swede Convicted For Linking Public Content

On the 10th of November 2010, a Swedish man was convicted for copyright infringement when sharing links to publicly available, streamed content on the Internet. This is just one of countless posts pointing out the folly of recent developments in the intellectual property war that currently scorches over the internet at large.

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