Yostivanich

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  • links for 2008-04-16

    Google App Engine Blog: Getting your data on, and off, of Google App Engine Good job Google, one of my fears with App Engine is moving the data off Google’s servers. (tags: Google appengine programming cloud-computing) Facebook | The Facebook Blog Facebook now allows you to post your Flickr, Picasa, Yelp and del.icio.us streams directly […]

  • links for 2008-04-14

    Techcrunch.com Error Message Coolest error message ever. (tags: programming Humor) Virtuous Code › Why Your Social Website Should Support OpenID Good arguments as to why websites should support OpenID, though only from the viewpoint of the end user rather than the website owner. (tags: Internet webstandards security programming socialmedia) Is Your Community For Sale | […]

  • links for 2008-04-13

    Twitter takes hold in my physics class | Education IT | ZDNet.com (tags: twitter socialmedia technology Education tstemlink) Fewer Options Open to Pay for Costs of College – New York Times How has the current credit crunch made paying for college harder. (tags: Education Financial college recession) BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why […]

  • Ummm, You have to umm be confident, like yeah

    Are you serious??? Is pretty much what went through my head all yesterday listening to a round of speeches by students on their future career. Some quick background information, currently I am taking a public speaking class, and the class admittedly is pretty boring for me as I did debate in high school. The class […]

  • Moving to my own domain

    Sorry for the lack of posting the last week. However as a reward I am moving to my own domain, so please point your browsers to http://www.yostivanich.com where my permanent residence online will now sit.

  • Resolutions for the New Year

    For me heading to see my family for my vacation is not a vacation. I don’t get any real work done and I don’t really relax in any sense of the word. Owing to that and seeing as how school starts back up in a week, I’m going to do a light and more than […]

  • Facebook Marketplace: For Sale AK-47?

    So this is being quickly put out there, but in the Facebook Marketplace, I just witnessed an AK-47 for sale. Does this seem at odds with the normal rules on gun sales. I’ll have to look at this closer but doing a quick search on ebay for AK-47 or even looking for guns in general […]

  • Engineers and Presentations

    Engineers and Presentations don’t mix I have noticed over the past several days, and why is that. Why is the stereotypical engineer a klutz when it comes to public speaking, why does this stereotype even exist is the better question. Frankly, because it is true. I have over the past several days been seeing presentations […]

  • Football Fans

    This is a post about sports, which admittedly I am neither a huge fan nor all that knowledgeable about. However last night I was having a conversation with several people and realized I needed to speak out. This person was describing different things that he saw fans of my school Texas Tech University, shout, say, […]

  • Advertising and the Blogosphere

    TechMeme and the rest of the blogosphere is going crazy over the recent disclosure of an advertising campaign through Federated Media and Microsoft. Personally I couldn’t care, advertising is just that advertising, a way to pay the bills for these blogs. As long as people disclouse the difference between ads and their acutal content there […]