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Graduation and a job!

Submitted by taylor on June 11, 2009 - 7:50pm

Hooray, my coursework is over! I still need to defend my thesis, but no pressure because I also got a great job offer! The offer is with LSI (lsi.com) in Boulder as a firmware engineer writing embedded C++ that performs various types of RAID on large hard disk arrays. I'm still working out the details of the contract, but I'm really excited about the position. Also, Marissa got a job offer the same day! Now we just need to find a place to live between East Denver and North Boulder...

Bioinformatics!

Submitted by taylor on April 20, 2009 - 2:20am

I've recently been looking into bioinformatics and computational biology because I love the idea of manipulating biology or biological information with computer science. I believe the ubiquitous integration of technology into human physiology is an inevitable leap that will be undergone in my lifetime. We have already laid the groundwork for this revolution and can do things like control rats' movements with joysticks, rewire part of the body to bypass damaged nerves, and crossbreed goats with spiders to produce significant amounts of spidersilk.

Drupal: Single Person Blogs

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 11:15pm

I made the switch to Drupal without knowing much about the Drupal core blogging module and as it turns out, Drupal's core blog implementation is excellent, but was intended for multiple bloggers. This way a user could view the site blog page and see recent posts from any member, but could still view just the posts from a specific user (e.g. Taylor's Blog). This was good and all, but it bothered me to hack my URLs to fit my single blog site.

New Theme!

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 8:17pm

I've finished my new theme! Me not being a designer at all means this task will no longer ominously lurk in my future! Hooray!

Mosso.com - The Rackspace Cloud

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 3:00pm

This site is now being hosted by Mosso.com and I'm loving it. I basically got a virtual dedicated server that is easily scalable for $11/mo! This means I can have an FTP server, an SVN server, and a web server with unlimited domains all for just $11/mo!