http://archive.bfroehle.com A place for some personal thoughts. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:56:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/11/20/on-hiatus/ I got my monthly account statement from WellsFargo today. It wonderfully included a $12 monthly account fee, because I had failed to meet the minimum balance requirements for the month. Who cares that this failure was actually _their fault_ (see the previous "story":/2005/08/17/wells-fargo-compaints-part-12/? I need a bank ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/24/wells-fargo-compaints-part-32/ Free 1-night RedBox DVD Rental, use promotional code *FROEHL*. Caveats: * Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston and Salt Lake City metro area Redbox locations. * Limit one (1) free DVD rental per new Redbox customer credit/debit card. * The promotion runs from 8/21 through 9/17 so get cracking. See "RedBox":http://www.redbox.com/ for a list of locations and DVDs. http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/21/free-redbox-dvd-rental/ I went to the Golden Gopher Fan Fest 2005 today. It was an open practice/scrimage in preparation for the upcoming football season. You can find the rest of the pictures that I took in the "Fan Fest 2005 Set":http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/sets/789868/ on Flickr. http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/21/fan-fest-2005/ Can somebody tell me when banking became such a pain? The second of a two part series. I just want to let you all know about what Wells Fargo does with their customers who have CDs. Things to know: * When your CD matures, Wells Fargo automatically renews your CD after a ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/17/wells-fargo-compaints-part-22/ I run "Skype":http://www.skype.com/ on my computer now. Skype is an internet telephony application, allowing you to make encrypted voice calls over the internet. If you want to give me a call, just ring me: BradleyFroehle @ Skype. You can always get ahold of me in a ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/17/skype/ Can somebody tell me when banking became such a pain? The first of a two part series. *Update:* My supposedly 'resolved' problem still isn't resolved. *Update 2:* Resolved! *Friday:* my mother and I headed off to Wells Fargo--she needed to renew a CD, I needed to do some account maintenance. Specifically, ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/08/17/wells-fargo-compaints-part-12/ http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/06/24/mit-weblog-survey/ I just began working at "Notre Dame's":http://www.nd.edu/ Summer "Math REU":http://www.nd.edu/~ndreu/. For the uninitiated, the "Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)":http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/start.htm program is funded by the "National Science Foundation":http://www.nsf.gov/ to pay for students to work at participating universities working on research in the sciences. There are 8 students participating in the ND ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/06/22/notre-dame-math-reu/ I just got back (well, a week ago now) from a two week trip through Europe. The trip was actually a "May Session Global Seminar":http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/programs/faqs/globalSeminarsFAQ.html offered through the "University of Minnesota":http://www.umn.edu/. The course was entitled "Mysteries of the Universe in the 21st Century." Each link below goes ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/06/16/europe/ When I make video connections using my iSight in iChat, I get strange errors like: bq. No data has been received for the last 10 seconds. I have no idea what this means. This problem only arose after I switched to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I get this in ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/14/isight-ichat/ Rather than try to rehash something that I don't know enough about to describe without making some errors, I'll point you to a few places that discuss the high impact court ruling. Essentially, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC had no rights in forcing manufacturers to include copy ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/06/court-nixes-fccs-broadcast-flag/ p=. !http://photos10.flickr.com/11825641_78c521d627_m.jpg (Brad on a Donkey)!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/11825641/ p=. "Brad on a Donkey":http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/11825641/, Originally uploaded by "Brad Froehle":http://www.flickr.com/people/froehle/. You should check out "Flickr":http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/, as it now has all of my pictures on it. Like this "one":http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/11825641/, of me on a Donkey outside of Old City Hall in Boston, MA. You can also ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/05/brad-on-a-donkey/ Has anybody gotten their Samsung ML-1710 printer to work with Tiger? I've installed the drivers from Samsung's website (for Mac OS X 10.3), but they do not seem to show up when I add the printer. http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/04/ml-1710-tiger/ With finals week rapidly approaching, I'm beginning to feel a little stressed about this semester. I have all of my homework done for the rest of the semester, save for the Final Report in Methods of Experimental Physics (MXP). That paper is due on Friday, a rapidly approaching deadline! However, I ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/03/stressed-pre-finals-week-edition/ I bought a "Flickr Pro":http://www.flickr.com/upgrade/ account a few days ago and went nuts "uploading files":http://www.flickr.com/photos/froehle/, maxing out my 2GB limit for the month of April and using 10% of May's allowance while uploading over 1700 pictures. If you aren't a friend or family, some 400 of those won't be initially ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/05/01/flickr-pro/ It snowed briefly this afternoon. Nothing accumulating, but it's almost May! Snow is for the winter! *Update (May 1, 2005):* It briefly snowed again _today_! http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/04/27/snow/ Since the server this is running on was upgraded to PHP 5, the old Textile 2 plugin no longer functioned. I have updated this plugin to use version 2.0.8 of the "TextilePHP":http://jimandlissa.com/project/textilephp class. Thanks to "Adam Gessaman":http://idly.org/ for the original plugin. You can download "textile2.0.8-smartypants.zip":/downloads/textile-smartypants/textile2.0.8-smartypants.zip or "textile2.0.8-smartypants.tar.gz":/downloads/textile-smartypants/textile2.0.8-smartypants.tar.gz. *Note:* This was updated from ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/04/26/textile-208-wordpress/ At first, I must admit that it doesn't seem like there is a whole lot new. Spotlight is neat, but I already had much of that functionality with Quicksilver. Dashboard is a good idea, but I'm not sure I'll work it into my daily routine quite yet. Here's a ... http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/04/25/tiger-first-impressions/ Softball: 1 Brad: 0 http://archive.bfroehle.com/2005/04/17/scorekeeping/