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Research & Development Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, Tennessee Technological University. M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, TTU. Linux, Solaris, and high-performance computing systems administrator for TTU Computer Aided Engineering Network. Applications engineer for CAD, programming, and some FEA.

re:PocketMod – DIY Tiny Paper Organizer

I’m not giving up my Treo 700p as my regular organizer, but there are times when I recognize the advantages of paper. re:PocketMod is a site with a Flash application on it that lets you lay out and print 8 pages of information onto a single 8.5×11 sheet of paper. Properly cut and folded, the [...]

Free PGI Visual Fortran Compiler for University Students and Faculty

Free as in gratis, not free as in libre. But this may be good for home use. Go here to register and wait for your confirmation email to arrive.

DIY Planner style TTU Campus Map

A user over at diyplanner.com posted a simple campus map and course information template for college students. I thought it might be useful to make one for TTU.
So here you go:

PDF version, ready to be printed onto two side-by-side pages. Not sure why the fonts didn’t completely translate over.
OpenOffice.org version, ready to be edited.

If The Title of This Post Contains the Word “Tennessee”, Will It Attract Human Spammers?

As noted before, I do love Spam Karma 2. 4000+ spams eaten over the last 18 months or so, and it’s nearly perfect as far as I can tell.
But it didn’t catch a couple of… terse… commenters on this post about a presentation I was about to give. One commenter seemed rather irritated, and posted [...]

Where’s MarcoPolo for Windows?

MarcoPolo, “context-aware computing for OS X” appeals to all three great virtues of the programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. It makes me want a Mac notebook. Unfortunately, Pro/E, ANSYS, and other necessary tools for my regular work would mean I’d end up dual-booting the Mac all the time. And I’d miss my port replicator and [...]