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Comment on Touch Typing: Building Muscle Memory by Starschreck Turns Two Years Old

Starschreck Turns Two Years Old — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:20:46 +0000

[...] Touch Typing: Building Muscle Memory. Touch Typing is a free online typing class, full with lessons and typing games. There are many different typing methods, one of the slowest is the hunt and peck method, which method do you use? [...]

Comment on Starschreck Meets Blagojevich by Starschreck Turns Two Years Old

Starschreck Turns Two Years Old — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:19:05 +0000

[...] Starschreck Meets Blagojevich. Just another casual encounter with one of the many famous people this blog is associated with. [...]

Comment on Distinguishing Features: What Kinds of Tags Does Pandora Use? by Starschreck Turns Two Years Old

Starschreck Turns Two Years Old — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:18:48 +0000

[...] Distinguishing Features: What Kinds of Tags Does Pandora Use?. The most poplular post this year has been about Pandora, taking a look under the hood of Pandora’s Music Genome Project. You may know that you can type in the name of a artist/song and Pandora will generate a playlist of like music. Those decisions are based off of tags that are associated with each artist/song. [...]

Comment on Application Dependencies by dan

dan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:00:43 +0000

Found a good tip on backing up from WordPress:

“Excellent question. Most people make a backup and then just replace it every time. It saves space and is less to worry about. But what if that backup file is corrupted or lost? Then what? The general rule of thumb is to keep at least three backups and keep them in three different places or forms, like floppies, CDs, different hard drives, web disk, your e-mail account, etc.”

Comment on Montrose Sinkhole by dan

dan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:01:31 +0000

Thanks Francine. More sinkholes is right! Depending on how this design does, I have a couple variations ready-to-go. Thanks for the support, you’re awesome.

Comment on Montrose Sinkhole by Francine

Francine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:10:39 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this. AWESOME! Bitchin’ T-shirt. Thanks! But, of course, it would’ve been better if there never was a Montrose Sinkhole. There was also one at 3550 N. Lake Shore Drive a few years back. It’s unfortunate that Chicago is broke and now can’t focus on updating these 100 year old gigantic pipes. So, more sinkholes to come, I guess….

Comment on Touch Typing: Building Muscle Memory by Erin

Erin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:03:33 +0000

I’m pretty sure the data entry people view themselves as another species…. that which does not make any typos and at super human speed. If spell check was meant for speed instead of correcting spelling errors I am not sure how much use the delete button would get.

Comment on Touch Typing: Building Muscle Memory by dan

dan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:52:14 +0000

I got 94 WPM!! Really exciting stuff here. Like a lot of other things, there is an art to taking the typing test—whether it goes against the test itself is something open to interpretation. With a high accuracy percentage, it is technically not necessary to go back to correct errors. There is an acceptable error percentage and anything above that does not impact the result of the test.

The strange thing about all of this is that, with real life typing I go for 100% accuracy, right? I don’t use the spell checker for a speed increase, I use it to check my spelling. I wonder what the data entry people would say…

Comment on Phantom Genres by dan

dan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:54:32 +0000

OK. I have some more here:

Berlinette
Children’s Music
Cut-Up
Deeptech, Minimal House, Tech House, Techno
Drones
dub/electronic/landscape
MP3

And one more thing. Can we please decide if it’s “Hip Hop” or “Hip-Hop”, its really annoying.

Comment on The First Report of Injury by kate

kate — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:22:13 +0000

dan- this is great! I love your work, and that cover art is perfect…