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New picture functionality added.

I have added server-side image resizing in the pictures area. What does this mean for you? It means two things:

Dynamically generated thumbnails! You no longer have to download the whole picture when you are viewing thumbnails in the event view. You’ll just get little thumbnails instead.
Selectable viewing resolutions. Now, you can view a picture at several resolutions, not just the one at which it was taken. By default, images will appear at 800×600.

I hope this makes things easier for low-bandwidth users.

New picture organization; many new pics posted

I finally got around to reorganizing my pictures into “events.” You can now see all of the pictures that I’ve been putting of posting (since last September) on the pictures page

Spring 2000 Schedule Posted

I’ve posted my fall 2001 class schedule in the personal section of overt.

Plans for an open-source fitness program hatched

I’ve recently started running more often, and I wanted to keep track of my mileage, etc. So, I went looking for a good software package that could keep track of everything and make pretty graphs, but all I could find were many websites that offered the service for free by becoming a member.

I’m nervous about trusting my data to a third party system, so I started thinking I would just build a little database to keep track of this stuff. I want to stay platform neutral, so I decided that I might as well make the thing a web-accessible database.

Writing this thing in ColdFusion would be easy, but I’m trying to learn Java to prepare for a summer internship as a Java developer, so I’m going to try to implement it as a Java servlet or something. I’ll likely open a project at sourceforge.net. More news to follow.

Milestones for SETI team

Ship of Fools has recently passed two milestones:
10 years of CPU time and our second member with over a year of CPU time logged.

Spring schedule posted

I’ve updated the personal section of overt with my spring 2001 schedule.

Puzzlehunt is Done

Well, we did the Puzzlehunt thing. What a ride. You can see all of the pictures and puzzles at the Puzzlehunt site.

Overt is alive!

Contrary to the way things must seem, overt.org is alive and kicking! We got back from MS, started another busy semester at UT, and now I’m focusing web-development efforts on the upcoming UT Puzzlehunt.

We’re coming home.

Well, we left M$ for good. We’re now in a Best Western in Spokane, about to hit the sack. the trip page has a few pictures. Tired now… must sleep.

Puzzlehunt?

I’ve started a new project of sorts that has been attracting some of my time: Drew and I are trying to organize a UT Puzzlehunt ala the MIT IAP Mystery Hunt. There’s a site. Check it out.