Archives for the Month of March, 2012

Why are you bankrupting yourself for college?

What do universities want? The same as what everybody else wants, really. Power. Fame. Money. Well, the money’s actually a means to the first two, because you obviously don’t become powerful and famous (sorry, “prestigious”) without money. How do universities rise up? They hire and sponsor press-worthy research and researchers, and save up money to […]

Dreamhost is so 2004

Today marks my final move from uncool, mainstream shared hosting to the fantastic world of pay-what-you-need technology mash-ups. Shared hosting… I used to have shared hosting at Site5. They were OK. I really can’t complain much except that their dashboard functionality for hosting multiple domains on one account seemed archaic. I signed up almost exactly […]

cd && ls

I’ve noticed that I have a habit of changing to a directory and then immediately listing it’s contents. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could do it in one command? My goto for shell automation is usually shell scripting. Shell scripting is nice because I can use any language I want, and I don’t have […]