Update #28

Okay so since the last blog I have done a bunch I guess.

I watched the movie Taken. got it on netflix. It was really different. A feel good action movie. It was an odd combination but it was pretty good. maybe a 3/4 stars of 5. but I thought it was good. its basically about a father who does everything he can in an attempt to rescue his daughter.

I have also gone climbing some more. I have decided to start taking videos of the climbs instead of pictures. I then ran into a problem with editing them. So I will get some videos up here soon but I have to work out a few things first. I was told that someone was looking for some videos. I will have the new ones up soon but there are already some on the blog. you can find my 5.10+ climb on the post: Update #22. You can also find a bunch of pictures on the post: Climbing Competition.

As a general pointer, if you are looking for something I have blogged about in the past you can search for it under its label. so say you are looking for all of my posts that talk about climbing. if you goto the right of where this blog is (in that right sidebar) at the bottom of the sidebar there is a thing that says labels. under there it has a bunch of labels click on the label you want to see and they will appear. and if what you are looking for isn't on the screen you can look for older posts (it is sorted by when they are put up. the newest are at the top) by going to the bottom of the page and clicking "older posts".

I have been working a bunch too on both projects I am on. The UN one last week had a bunch of meetings that through off my schedule a bit and made it difficult to start up on the IBM project but I plan to get caught up by the end of the week on the IBM one. I plan on loosening up my schedule in an attempt to get more flexible times on projects.

I have also found this thing on iTunes call itunesU. schools put videos of their classes on itunes for free that people can watch. A bunch of school have classes up there ranging from MIT to UNH. I have started looking at single variable calculus from MIT in order to better understand it. As a programmer it will be needed.

I went to camp this weekend. It was great to see everyone again after so long. I have a new trailer so it was nice to see that finally. I hung out with my friends a bunch and did a bunch of different things. my grandmother made a cookie/brownie thing that was different but good. it tasted like a cookie but with the texture of a brownie. She also made me a Strawberry shortcake.

I have finished the book that I was reading in the last blog. I have since then ordered 3 more and I should finish the 1st one of those on Thursday. this one is about understanding how the brain works in order to be able to learn better. it has a focus on programming but can really be applied to anything. It talks about R-Mode to L-Mode flow and different techniques to help you learn and work better. I'm almost done with it and I'm pretty happy with it. The other two books are also about programming in a way. one is about management of technical people such as a software development team while the other is about staying passionate about what you do.

I have also got an account on Twitter. Twitter is an online thing that can be seen as a micro blog post. It basically answers the question what are you doing now. the posts are always short (under 140 characters) I have put a gadget that puts my twitter post on my blog. you can find them on the right of this post towards the top of the page. they are under the title of twitter and will be updated more often. you will not get an email when a new twitter post is put up so if you are wondering what I'm up to and I haven' posted a blog trying looking at the twitter feed in the corner it may give some insight into what I'm doing when I don't have time to write a full blog. for example I posted stuff about the new books 4 days ago, itunesU 5 days ago, and Taken 6 days ago on twitter.