Archive for July, 2008

The Bar Exam

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

As my last post and the fact that I was in law school for the last three years probably make obvious, Sarah and I are each getting ready to take the Texas Bar Exam. For those of you unfamiliar with this 2.5-day (and typically extremely costly and agonizing) ordeal, a friend of mine has posted [...]

Flipping Out, In Good Company

Friday, July 18th, 2008

A friend posted this sage advice to people about the take the bar exam, like yours truly: RELAX. Yes, it’s overwhelming. Yes, there is a huge amount of material, much of it obscure. But, you know what? If you study diligently, you will pass.
Relax. It’ll all be over soon!

WRECK (Wordpress Regular Expression Comment Killer)

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

In my ongoing battle against comment spam, I have finally decided to write myself a WordPress plugin as an additional layer of defense. It’s called WRECK (Wordpress Regular Expression Comment Killer).
WRECK (Wordpress Regular Expression Comment Killer) is an extremely simple plugin for marking comments as spam if they match certain regular expressions.
DOWNLOAD: wreck.zip
Current Version: 1.0
Release [...]

Fun Video (Matt Harding)

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Matthew Harding, a former computer programmer, decided a while back to just travel until his money ran out. Eventually, he picked up a sponsor (now, why didn’t I think of this?) and started travelling the world. Fourteen months, forty-two countries, and all seven continents later, Matt has danced, on video, in more countries than most [...]

Stuff!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Sarah and I finally got our stuff delivered by the movers a couple days ago - it’s awfully nice to have more furniture than an air mattress and some household goods that aren’t single-use. We celebrated by going out for dinner at Pappasito’s. If you have never had skewered shrimp and vegetables where the shrimp [...]