Old News: March 2001

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March 30, 2001 - Product Recall
If anyone downloaded Complex Magnitude, they should stop using it immediately. It has the potential to harm your calculator (just kidding). Actually, it contains a typo that says the program was made on 8/29/01. Download version 1.1 immediately at the Programs section. It also includes nice features like a new window range calculating routine that is a hell of a lot quicker and doesn't have a limit (for the old one, the maximum window was (-100,-100)-(100,100).

I also decreased the website loading time and increased the compatibility by removing those awful hover buttons on the side and making them non-animated.

 

March 29, 2001 - Radical, dude.
Despite the fact that there is considerable pain in my quads, I was still able to crank out two programs for your enjoyment. The first program is my Complex Magnitude program, which is a lot more than the name implies. You can find the magnitude of one or two complex numbers, then find the point's square or complex conjugate, or the pair's sum or product. And after that, you can plot everything! Yay!

The second program is one that's probably been made a few times but will probably make many people happy. It's a program that simplifies radicals. Simply enter a real number and the program spits out the square root in radical form. Currently imaginary numbers are not supported (no negative square roots, kid).

Check out these sick programs at the Programs section.

 

March 28, 2001 - Tennis or boot camp? You decide.
Unfortunately, a large chunk of my free time will be unavailable for the next couple of months. Mr. Anderson's communist tennis dictatorship has started up again. Now don't get me wrong, I love tennis, but we spend more time running around the campus than actually playing tennis. Oh well. I might as well suck it up.

I made a quick little program that finds the magnitude of a complex number and plots it. It'll be up as soon as I finish it (i.e. probably never)

I hope you all noticed that I have given each news item its own title, something probably borrowed from PsychoCorp or some other website. OK, so they suck.

Domain name coming soon! (well, kinda)

 

March 17, 2001 - St. Patty's Day
Happy St. Patrick's day everyone. I hope everyone's noticed that everything on this site [was] green. Wait a minute everything was always green. I'm not even Irish.

just got back from visiting my little cousins in connecticut. i came within an inch of my life. they were trying to f***ing kill me!

No new programs, but I found the most hilarious thing on the internet. A couple weeks ago I heard the funniest thing on the radio (on the fnx radio network, 103.7 here in RI), and today I found it on their website (fnxradio.com). it's a spoof of who wants to be a millionaire and it's hip hop week. just listen. go to http://fnxradio.com/jocks/frame-jaxon.html and click on "MC Carmella B". (I believe the sound clip is no longer available, but the memory still lives on.)

 

March 10, 2001 - MIA
sorry i havent updated this page in a while. i've been very busy the last couple days (playing mechwarrior 4 and x-wing alliance). but you'll be glad to know that as of thursday I am officially on spring break. Now I'll be able to do some hardcore programming, if i can ever pull myself away from XWA.

I have another bit of programming goodness for you. It's a math game (oxymoron?) called Globz. It's based on the computer game Green Globs, if you've ever played that. You have to nail the globs sitting on a coordinate plane by making functions that go through them. Yeah, I know. This was mainly supposed to be a test of my programming skills (i.e. i wanted to do it just to do it) Check it out in the Programs section.