One thing that I have yet to commented much on, at least in this blog, is my love of education. If I had the resources available to me right now, I would have already begun my Masters in Computer Science coursework, then promptly start my Ph.D. However at this point in my life that cannot be [easily] done. How ever, thanks to free courses online, I never feel like I am missing out on further educating myself.
Archive for March, 2008
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Me + Debian, the Breakup, Me + Ubuntu
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Now, don’t get me wrong. The Debian package manager is probably the reason why I began using GNU/Linux. My previous experiences with other GNU/Linux operating systems left me very confused. However, in my defense, I was still very wet behind the years at the time. So one day, after getting a suggestion from a friend of mine who was well versed in the Debian ways, told me I should try it out. The operating system itself has a steeper learning curve, but the package management system made it all worth it.
And, yes it did.
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Happy Pi Day
Friday, March 14th, 2008Today is the day where we celebrate all the digits that make up Pi, even the numbers we have yet to discover.
My only question is, why do we celebrate the entire day? That is not granularity for me. Using the rest of the decimals after the initial 3.14, has anyone sat down and calculated the exact second that we should be celebrating on that day? Millisecond? Microsecond? Nanosecond? When can we know what picosecond it is?
Enjoy the day everyone (or picosecond if you wish).
Brawls to the Wall
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008So just as I was getting to the blogging groove, I picked up Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I will try to make sure that the game doesn’t take up too much of my blogging time. But I am fearing the worst is yet to come. On the plus side, I have unlocked Snake! All I need is Sonic and I will, more or less, be at peace with the game.
I will say this: the game is very fun. I have been playing it since around 3pm PST 2008-03-09 and I am not bored with it (yet…).
Celldoku – The J2ME Sudoku Experience
Monday, March 10th, 2008Today’s post is going to be about my independent senior project at Loyola Marymount, Celldoku. I graduated in May of 2006, however only got around to uploading it into Sourcefoge a few weeks ago. I did plan on continuing development on it, however that plan was put on the back burner when I decided that I would go the iPhone route when ever/if-ever they release a 3G version of the phone. Those plans went back onto the front burner when the rumor mill on the interwebs said that Sun is planning on porting a Java runtime environment to the iPhone (thanks to the recent announcement of the SDK). However I may end up recreating the project as a native iPhone application. We will see.
The First [Official] Blog Post
Friday, March 7th, 2008So welcome to the first real installment of my blog entries. As noted on other blogs, many blogs rarely get past the first post… maybe even up to the second. Well here I am on my third post on my blog and I haven’t even begun to get started, so I hope that is a good sign. My name is Mike Megally and this is my blog. I graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. I am a terrible speller and have terrible grammar, so do not be too surprised when/if things like that show up.
