http://blog.aaziz.org ramblings and opinions of a geek Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:40:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received the results of one of my tests on Wednesday, and caused a bit of a debate with my professor. It was in C++ class. One of the practical portion questions was pretty simply: Write a piece of code that will use a for loop to calculate the number of ... http://blog.aaziz.org/the-finer-details-of-zero First, my apologies for the lack of posts in a bit while long time. I've been busy with moving, school, work, TF2, Warhammer 40K, and MTG. Just so much stuff to do, so little time. About moving in. It actually went pretty well. We had been packing things into boxes for ... http://blog.aaziz.org/the-apartment-life I wanted to add some images to my recent post about OXM, but feared legal complexities about scanning magazine pages, so I sent an email to Francesca Reyes, Editor-in-Cheif, explaining what I wanted to do and asking for their opinion.  Today I received a reply (directly from Francesca), encouraging my ... http://blog.aaziz.org/oxms-approval I got my September Official Xbox Magazine a couple of weeks ago, but I just finished reading most of it this week. There's a lot of sequels featured in this month's magazine – previews for Fable 2, Rock Band 2, and Street Fighter IV. Unreal Tournamant III is reviewed and ... http://blog.aaziz.org/oxm-september-08-fable-2-rock-band-2-ut3 I haven't posted a new article in 3 weeks. I've been slacking off. So I think I'm going to make a kind of schedule. I promise at least 1 post per week, by Friday morning at the latest. This is mostly to help me actually write, as I tend to ... http://blog.aaziz.org/future-plans-for-the-blog I could make a silly joke about taking rifle shots at ants, but I've had enough cheese today. I usually download some small programs and utilites at work and home, so I decided I'd share my finds. A lot of them are inspired by LifeHacker posts, but some I find ... http://blog.aaziz.org/download-of-the-day-bug-shooting We just got our OSAP estimate in after making the change that we're living on our own. The amounts aren't as high as we'd like but not as low as we feared either, considering that we both will be make at least $100/week during the school year and we both ... http://blog.aaziz.org/living-on-a-budget At work I've been developing a inital draft for the new company website. Based on some browser statistics, Firefox holds 41% of the browser market, with IE6 and 7 close at 26.5% and 27%, respectively. However, I'm willing to bet a good 30% of the people using Firefox (a statistic ... http://blog.aaziz.org/the-lack-of-standards-for-standards So my parents are moving to a nice fancy house. And that means for the last three nights I've been packing up and moving a whole lot of crap (much to Laura's annoyment). Anyways, yesterday, it was me, my father, and my 18-year-old brother. But oh no he forgot his ... http://blog.aaziz.org/rickrolling-your-brothers-friends Within the span of a week: My girlfriend and I decided we were going to move out to an apartment for school this year My parents gave us a couch set, a water fountain, and told us they'd pay first & last Her parents offered us a bunch of stuff like pots & ... http://blog.aaziz.org/but-what-about-my-star-wars-poster