tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18664413282992601462012-02-16T04:57:34.426-09:00Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-74697729430176828982011-12-03T20:16:00.001-09:002011-12-03T20:59:31.472-09:00

I was looking at creating an HTML5 video website the other day but was frustrated by the fact the browsers seem to automatically download the video when the page was opened. This seemed like a waste of bandwidth especially if you have to pay for it and your site goes viral. My solution so far was to created the following script to help prevent excess bandwidth charges. Copy the code below into a

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-8414753766278359862011-04-24T17:00:00.000-08:002011-04-24T17:00:02.142-08:00

The other day my number pad stopped working. Then I notice it was acting like a mouse and I remembered that I'd used this once before a long time ago. It can be handy if you are setting up a computer or trouble shooting things and don't have a mouse. Usually I prefer the number pad to act like a number pad and not a mouse. Here is how to toggle it back and forth press ctl-alt-numlock.

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-88405593705685359582010-10-11T18:00:00.000-08:002010-10-11T18:00:18.679-08:00

Has anyone else used the Adf.ly URL shrinking service before? Looks like an interesting service though it does cause you an extra click for users to get to you link. I found it as a referral in my Google Analytics data.

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-66559269012764736192010-10-07T20:44:00.000-08:002010-10-07T20:44:05.961-08:00

Just went on a bike ride along the Eklutna Lake near Chugiak and captured this wonderful panoramic view looking down the lake.

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-36827078884543352472010-10-04T19:26:00.000-08:002010-10-04T19:26:26.012-08:00

I've been experimenting with Amazon S3 service for one of my latest projects and didn't see many examples out there so I thought I would share some code snippets. Being cheap I wanted trying to keep my storage costs down so I opted to use the reduced redundancy feature of S3. I was having trouble getting the change storage type function to work correctly when I discovered that the following code

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-6432766672175711092010-06-01T18:27:00.000-08:002010-06-01T18:27:26.881-08:00

Check out the new postcard of Mt. Redoubt in the sunset. It appears that the mountain is on fire but it is only the setting sun positioned perfectly behind it.

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-39657127004969343162010-05-15T20:14:00.000-08:002010-05-15T20:14:36.042-08:00

Saw several birds this afternoon at Potters Marsh: Bald Eagle Northern Shoveler Green-winged teal Some type of Gull Greater or lesser Scaup Red-necked grebe American wigeon Northern Pintail  Mallard

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-17500257501010742952010-04-20T20:47:00.002-08:002010-04-20T20:54:28.039-08:00

Yesterday one of my students was doing an interview with someone and recording it onto my Fostex MR-8. At first everything appeared to be fine. I played back the beginning of the clip and it sounded good but when I went back to process the file it had just disappeared. The MR-8 stores files on a compact flash card (CF) so I searched around and stumbled upon the program photorec which is part of

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-51006163027183532602009-12-01T21:47:00.003-09:002009-12-01T21:59:11.894-09:00

A friend on Facebook shared a link to an article about time management, by Ramit Sethi, that I thought was rather thought provoking. The author reviewed some of the work by Cal Newport which suggested using a fixed schedule to increase productivity and help evaluate what is really important and what produces results.Cal also has a website called Study Hacks that has many good study tips on it. I

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-11604728877476930032009-11-22T15:32:00.005-09:002009-11-22T16:02:54.256-09:00

While working with OpenOffice 2.4 I found an interesting bug. When I would export a document to PDF the equation editor would randomly replace numbers with their Arabic equivalent. Since 2.4 is an old version I decided to upgrade to 3.1. After waiting for the download I discovered that when I tried to install it there were many inter-related dependancies that were not met. I solved this by doing

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-36840195698624454632009-02-17T19:47:00.000-09:002009-02-17T19:55:54.435-09:00

Here is a neat little trick that I found at TomBuntu to increase the speed of reads and writes to the cache for Firefox under Linux. There are many other tips relating to SSD drives but I found this one could be used with any system."Firefox puts its cache in your home partition. By moving this cache in RAM you can speed up Firefox and reduce disk writes. Complete the previous tweak to mount /

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-9470336832961595162008-11-23T06:17:00.000-09:002008-11-23T06:25:17.352-09:00

With the upcoming Thanksgiving season just around the corner. I was inspired to create a new product in my line of Pumpkin Pi series. Not only that but Zazzle has a sale going on until November 24, 2008. Simply enter the code ZAZZLEPAYPAL to receive 10% discount.Pumpkin Pi, 3.14159265358979323846264338327950... by woehler on Zazzle.com

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-63869013509561277172008-11-13T11:49:00.000-09:002008-11-16T21:56:44.299-09:00

Is I mentioned earlier in my review of the "Asus eee PC 1000 " I attempted to install the Ubuntu eee distro on my Asus eee PC 1000. I really like how it is organized, better than the Xandros distro, but it had some issues with the webcam, wireless network, and bluetooth. The latter two which I needed to be able to operate in my classroom. To limit my downtime and provide a backup in case of hard

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-57042409281372981292008-10-30T18:30:00.000-08:002008-11-05T07:33:56.587-09:00

I am always looking at ways to use technology to improve the way that I teach. I decided to venture into the realm of netbooks. The combination of price tag and battery life was very attractive, but the amount of storage seemed rather limited. Then I found the Asus eee PC 1000. It has a total storage space of 40GB, an 8GB system drive and 32GB data drive. This seemed like a reasonable amount of

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-44744174214540305212008-10-03T17:20:00.001-08:002008-10-03T17:34:31.155-08:00

Zazzle has a promotional going on starting October 6. You can 5 greeting cards for free by entering the code 5FREECARDS check out these great cards. You can even place your Christmas picture on the inside of the cards if you want.create & buy custom products at Zazzle

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-35379155385566592262008-09-28T11:07:00.000-08:002008-09-28T15:21:28.012-08:00

After reading many reviews on the different bike lights on the market today I finally decided to go with the DiNotte 200L-LI-4C headlight and the 140R-LI-4C tail light. I just got them this last week so these are only my initial impressions and opinions of them. I'm sure I'll write another review after I've used them a bit more.I purchased them directly from DiNotte online and was very impress

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-62497806092228307082008-05-22T19:26:00.000-08:002008-05-22T20:30:13.923-08:00

Since I'm going to be teaching at a new school this next year and switching from high school math and computers to grades 5-8 math, science & physical education. I thought I would invest a little time to see how the K12LTSP project is coming along. It would be great to have a small easily maintainable network in my classroom for students to be able to explore a new operating system and the tools

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-83545112980503454182008-02-06T03:12:00.000-09:002008-02-06T03:32:17.855-09:00

As I mentioned in my previous entry I'm working on getting Ubuntu installed on my ASUS F3SA-A1 laptop. Initially I had some problems with the discs, I kept getting errors. I finally resolved this by burning the disc with ISORecorder on the laptop under Vista. The install appeared to have smoothly at first, but there were two major problems: the video and audio drivers.The screen resolution was

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-68836411079047538922008-02-01T14:25:00.000-09:002008-02-06T03:12:54.476-09:00

I've been looking for a new laptop for my wife for the past 6 months. I knew what I wanted for performance and what I wanted to pay. To problem was that the two concepts were not getting along until I finally spied an Asus F3sA-A1 from Newegg for $999 with a 15.4" screen, 2.2 Core 2 Duo (T7500), 1GB ram, 160GB drive, 512 Video Ram, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless ABGN & bluetooth, & 1GB of Turbo

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-42226990656415824822008-01-30T16:05:00.000-09:002008-01-30T19:29:34.057-09:00

We've all hear the expression a "penny saved is a penny earned." Many of us don't believe that any more because we can't find anything anymore that costs a dollar much less a penny. I believe the statement is still true and wanted to try and squeeze the the penny a little harder. Ebay and google have demonstrated that you can make millions using pennies. Ebay listings aren't very expensive and

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-60493747068203647282008-01-30T15:50:00.000-09:002008-01-30T16:04:22.023-09:00

I was sent an invitation to Qassia.com today which claims that it can help improve the traffic to your website. I've posted a couple articles in there just to see if can help.When you post content, rate content and invite others to Qassia.com you earn qassia dollars which improves your ranking within the site. From my understanding if you get in early this may be a benefit to your sites by

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-26938436723794705712008-01-23T13:23:00.000-09:002008-01-30T15:50:12.723-09:00

While looking for resources for my Internet programming class I stumbled upon this great article discussing the process of switching to CSS from tables. There are many other interesting articles since this one is obviously pretty old.From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journeyby Jeffrey Zeldmanhttp://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-72114616023923959362007-12-21T03:30:00.000-09:002007-12-21T04:45:11.349-09:00

I've been wanting to get at digital SLR for about 8 years now but have never been impress with the quality of what I could afford. Until I say Canon's Rebel XTi. It had all of the features that I was looking for except construction. I liked the way that the Canon 30D felt and was built but I liked the features of the Canon XTi and knew that there would be a Canon 40D which would have the

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-7157039502090591332007-11-30T06:26:00.000-09:002007-11-30T11:25:52.850-09:00

My wife and I just finished participating in a CHIP (Coronary Heart Improvement Project) program in our area. We initially decided to look at this program because my father just had a heart attack and it seems to run in both sides of my family. I figured why not take a look at my cholesterol and see how much changing my diet would change. I wasn't sure that it would change that much since I am

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-32643358091690416402007-10-22T18:20:00.001-08:002007-10-22T18:25:12.309-08:00

Are you looking for a way to send out your holiday greetings? This card can be customized to your message and you can even get matching postage. Winter at the Lake by Aaron Woehler Get this custom card at Zazzle

Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18101335956815711298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1866441328299260146.post-87728145689355848162007-05-09T05:50:00.000-08:002007-05-09T05:50:45.017-08:00

More options are now available for this Bear Grass photo. You can purchase it from either zazzle or fotki. Zazzle ads the option to get it framed has more print style options.Get this custom print at Zazzle or Fotki

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