Aaron Parecki

The Apartment

I took the bus from the Pittsburgh airport to downtown, then caught a bus from downtown to Silas' place. Of course since it was the second day of the G20, they had a big chunk of downtown completely blocked off with roadblocks and police. I've never seen so many different kinds of security in one place. City police, military, riot squad, private security, roadblocks, barbed-wire fences.

This one I just thought was mildly amusing. The screens that are supposed to tell you when the next flights are coming in are apparently Windows computers running Internet Explorer.

Since I've already been logging GPS data for quite some time, I thought it'd be interesting to log as much data during flights as possible. Of the three flights so far, I've been able to log data on two of them. I think it has to do with the fact I had a window seat on both flights. I'm pretty sure the plane is shielded in a way that blocks the satellite signals. I'd be interested if anybody can fill me in on why this might be.

San Francisco's BART and MUNI couldn't be any easier to use! I had no trouble getting from the airport into the city. Once in the city, it was easy to get around as well.

The Long Beach airport wasn't quite what I expected. Walking through the airport I feel like I'm in the middle of a 70's movie. I got off the plane into the terminal which basically just had a bunch of "leave now" signs directing me out of the airport onto the street. The font used for the airline signs in the airport is old-school!

Speed Up Wordpress

This page contains some short notes on my 3-week adventure while jetting around the US. It was mostly used as a place for me to jot things down on the road so I could refer back to it when writing the blog posts. You can also read about my trip on my blog.

I wanted to create a RAID 5 array with four 1tb drives. I only have three, but I have a 750gb and 320gb drive lying around. I figured there was probably a way to combine them into a 1tb drive that I could use with the others.

Wiimote with Max/MSP

Comcast just started blocking port 25 outgoing. I have several computers at home configured to send email reports of cron jobs. Of course they do this by trying to send mail on port 25 from inside the house to my mail server outside. Now that Comcast is blocking that, I need some other way for my emails to be delivered.

Using Forums in a Class

The ATC has been using a system for accepting registrations for workshops that I developed a couple months ago. It can be seen here:

Introduction

I have set up several small businesses with Wordpress. In addition to being a great blogging platform, it can be used as a more traditional-style website.

Project Background

Tex TutorialHow to get math notation in Moodle

The top trending topic on Twitter the other day was #twitterpornname. This seemingly innocent meme prompts you to find your Twitter porn name by combining the name of your first pet with the street you grew up on, or some variation. Thousands of people began shouting out this information on their Twitter profiles.

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I've had a bit of fun using MediaWiki to power a few websites! Check out cyborganthropology.com, caseorganic.com/wiki, and indiewebcamp.com for a few examples. A default install of MediaWiki looks like wikipedia.org, and you probably don't want your website to look like that. However, MediaWiki is a powerful platform for building your site, even if it's just being edited by one person!