Michael Cook’s Place

This is a question I get asked a lot. Actually, I doubt anyone has asked me. But that has never stopped me from giving my opinion.
Let’s just get my “pedigree” clear up front. I had 3 database courses (all Oracle). I’d used MySQL before I came to my current job, where I have been using [...]

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I need to get out and take some more pictures. I haven’t done that in a while. In other news I’ve been trying to think of a problem to apply to Numenta’s software to, because it looks like a ton of fun. Also on the list, I ran across an absolutely hilarious series of pages [...]

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For the topic, this post is rather late. I watched (parts) of the Super Bowl this year. Basically, just the commercials. That’s all I ever watch. But I noticed something as a result of all this.
SD commercials seem terrible.
I’m so used to HD that I look down on SD commercials. When you look at the [...]

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So I’m sitting here and I’ve been working on and off tinkering with iTunes plug-ins. I used to love a waterfall spectrograph plugin that I had for Winamp back in the day. It’s something that I’ve always missed since I moved over to iTunes years ago.
Now there is the SpectroGraph plugin by Dr. Lex. I [...]

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Well, the new Mac has been enjoyed at our house, but it hasn’t gotten much use outside of the normal web browsing. I haven’t gotten to get it tested with importing photos and such, or e-mail (which would be a big one). My parents are still on AOL web mail for the moment. Maybe this [...]

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