Monday, October 20, 2008

Where have I been?

No where really. I just haven't been doing a lot of random web browsing. I think work and deadlines do that to people.

Anyhow, the most useful link I've found in the last several days covers the Secrets of Auto Detailing. I like to take care of my things. Hopefully I'll have time to take care of this before it gets too cold.

UPDATE: Well this detailing stuff is way more complicated than the mentioned site describes. Found a forum entry that has recommendations on products to buy and things to do. Looks like I'll be dropping the car off at the detail shop.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Bible Word Clouds

I've started bible studies recently. This is not because I'm a super devout Christian. Its because I believe there is a little more to life than programming and blogging. Seriously! I feel the need to explore various religions. Sure I'm starting out with Christianity (its the one I'm most familiar with), but I do plan on exploring Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and other religions. I feel people generally tend to find opinions about or judge these other religions without ever exploring them. And this journey for me is not to judge, but to discover the common ground between all these religions. It's something that, in my opinion, people really do not focus on.

So with this current journey, I've found some way to involve computers and programming. Its just a thought for an application. An aspect of this application includes the idea of word clouds (also known as tag clouds). These are essentially a measure of frequent a particular word occurs in text. The more frequent the word occurs the larger the font.

An excellent example of this is some word clouds that I found produced from the Bible.

Canned Tuna

It looks like I'll finally be making my rounds back into a gym sometime soon. Its not because I'm getting fat or anything. Its just that I enjoy working out and challenging myself physically. For this reason I've actually considered doing a triathlon.

Well like every workout freak will tell you, the truth of the matter is that the majority of training has to do with your diet. You can work out all you want, but without a good diet you are not achieving your workout goals without the good balance of exercise and diet.

So I've been considering that lately and have decided to attack the 10 cans of tuna we have in our cupboard. I stumbled on this excellent site for basic ways to spice up tuna for those of us who get tired of eating the same old can daily. Enjoy!