Archive for March, 2007

bad juju at rpi

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Last night I was studying for my [aeroelasticity](http://kzo.net/log/aeroelasticity) test. I mentioned to my roommates that I needed a miracle. One of them suggested praying. After all that always works. God will swoop down and intervene.
Strangely though, someone died at RPI today causing the entire campus to shut down. Everyone was [...]

Discover the Discovery — Space Shuttle Processing

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

### Before Flight Activities Rarely Seen By The General Public

I lost again, rpi union challenge 2

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

the question was *If there was an empty 50×50ft space in the Union, what purpose would you give this space and why?*
I wrote:
>When I came to RPI my belongings consisted of one suitcase and two backpacks. Four years later I could probably fill three giant suitcases and five boxes of skateboards, electronics and books. [...]

Simple Images; notes on proposal for Drupal SOC

Monday, March 19th, 2007

This is primarily for Drupal people who are rating my summer of code application.
### [My notes on image/file handling in Drupal](http://kzo.net/log/handling-images-documents-and-files-in-drupal)
### [My initial summer of code ideas for Drupal](http://kzo.net/log/summer-of-code-ideas-for-drupal)
### [Googtube module: A module I created](http://kzo.net/log/no-syntax)
### [The main Drupal powered site I run](http://www.ocpaddler.com)
### [Another Drupal site I run](http://enehana.com)

Handling images (documents, and files) in Drupal

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I’ve been researching this for a while. Images and files as nodes don’t feel right to me. In Drupal I have come to think of a node as any page that has the intention of being displayed. A typical node has some text content, often with other embedded content like images or [...]

Summer of Code — Ideas for Drupal

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

In no particular order, these are my current ideas for Drupal SOC projects. They are largely driven by what I want, please tell me if any would be useful for you.
###Weather Module
This is the one module from Postnuke that I miss when using Drupal. Current options in Drupal do not include a full [...]

The best input syntax is no syntax

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

There are too many text markup/down/tile/wiki syntaxes out there and it’s a pain to relearn how to make bold text for every new website. Setting up a website is even worse since you need to decide what your users will likely be happy using. Markdown is a good choice. It’s pretty and [...]