Day: October 10, 2005

  • FOSS OTD: Memtest86

    “What?”, you ask? “FOSS OTD” = “Free / Open Source Software Of The Day.” I’m going to try this out, though it’s likely to be somewhat sporadic; I do, after all, have classes to pass! Anyway, the selection for the day is Memtest86, a Stand-Alone Memory Diagnostic. Memtest86 will help you find memory problems (hopefully)…

  • Poem of the Day: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

    MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,   Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:   ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,          5   But being too happy in thine happiness,       That thou,…

  • Holy Trinity Church

    I visited the Hyde Park location of Holy Trinity Church, today. I figured that any church holding services in a chapel at a synagogue has got to be interesting. I really liked it. It really made me think, and provided a lot of what I’m looking for in a church home.

  • Rice Football is… Not Doing so Well

    My alma mater is tied with Army for the longest NCAA football losing streak in the nation, at 10 games. Go Rice! Sigh… Only 117 days until the baseball season opener…