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What your brain can do
July 13th, 2009
I found this on Collin Mizell’s blog and thought it was interesting enough to share. It is pretty neat – see if you can read it. Only great minds can read this This is weird, but interesting! fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe [...]
The effects of constant exposure to advertisements
May 15th, 2009
I came across an article that ponders the effects of continual bombardment of advertisments upon us, and thought it had some good insights. Below are a few excerpts. The rampant commercialization of the U.S. becomes powerfully evident whenever I return from an extended trip to a country where people don’t wallow in materialism (on this [...]
The Cronin’s Thanksgiving
November 30th, 2008
The Turkey Trot in Pictures Videos to (hopefully) come later.
Instant Messaging for Introverts
April 16th, 2008
I read this post over on tidbits by Joe Kissel. I liked this article because it expressed the feelings and tendencies of someone with a very similar personality to my own. I also liked his definition of “introvert”: A common misconception about the word “introvert” is that it means someone who’s shy, withdrawn, afraid of [...]
I got my GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation Contest) T-shirt! (Pictures below)
March 16th, 2008
I received my T-shirt, certificate, and stickers on March 12th – but I only took pictures of my shirt. Enjoy!
My Love Language
January 31st, 2008
Charity posted this quiz on her LJ, so I decided to take it and see how it rated me. About this quiz Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak. Tag [...]
Malware spreading through MSN messenger?
January 23rd, 2008
I just got an IM from a friend on my MSN messenger account that appears to be some sort of backdoor IRC bot. (05:18:39 PM) UnamedFriend: Hey, isn’t this YOU?? :S http://mainmsn.com/images/viewimage.php?=myusername@hotmail.com (05:30:55 PM) Jordan: Are you there? (05:35:35 PM) Jordan: I think you might be infected with a virus I changed the above url [...]
Solving Information Overload
January 3rd, 2008
I just saw this today after reading Franz P.’s comment about how he found my post. I did a search for “information overload” to see if I could find my post on Google. I looked through the first five pages and didn’t see my post, but I did find this: Cure Information Overload Using Google [...]
Information overload
January 2nd, 2008
I’ve noticed that I easily get distracted from what I’m doing when on my computer, be it reading my emails, school work, or other important things. I also tend to spend too much time reading interesting and informative articles online. And to top things off, I feel this compulsion to read every single new item [...]