Entries Tagged as 'Tech'

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Transcription Tips

It may be too late for some of my fellow CRG-program buddies (some of which are much further along with their theses than I), but I figured that my process for transcribing interviews could be useful for someone else out there.
High-Quality Digital Recorder
I had no audio-recorder of any kind before I began this process, so [...]

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

KPN + Speed Touch = no Vonage

This post is not really related to study abroad. I’m just putting this up here in the hopes that someone who has a similar problem can find the answer.
So I finally got internet access (a neighbor was nice enough to let me install a wireless access point), but I found that I could not [...]

Monday, April 17th, 2006

School House Superparamagnetic Rock

So I was reading about Seagate’s new perpendicular hard drive and, like you, thought to myself “I wonder what a perpendicular hard drive is…” I hopped over to google, typed in perpendicular hard drive, and got this site.
Wow.
Since it’s the first hit on google I assume a lot of people have seen it, but [...]

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Diplomats with Money

Well, for a while now I’ve been seeking out ways I can combine my IR degree with my technical experiance. I’ve had it said to me that corporations, especially highly globalized tech corporations, need diplomats just as much as governments do.
Today I read about how true that statement really is. Chinese President Hu Jintao’s [...]

Monday, March 27th, 2006

HOWTO: Make Terminal.app behave properly

This is just a pet peeve I have with Mac OS X’s Terminal.app. PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End control the line buffer saved in Terminal.app, but doesn’t control those features in whatever program you’re using.
For example, if you’re using vim, emacs, or you’re ssh’ed into another computer and using a command-line irc client (in [...]

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Fun with hardware

Well, school has kept me really busy recently, and if that weren’t enough, I’ve got a bunch of hardware projects going on around the house.  Some of them are fun.
First off, my new roomate moved in, and he’s got a nice big screen TV and Tivo.  We’ve been playing around with Tivo Desktop, transfering files [...]