http://kallander.net/will/blog Random rumblings, rants, and reflections Sun, 31 May 2009 03:35:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:45 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=35 Since it had been a while, I figured it might be a nice change to read something completely unrelated to my work or school, to refresh the spirit. Which I think was achieved. The book is typical Dickens in it's esoteric vocabulary, but I tend to like that kind of reading material anyway. I was surprised at how I managed to get through high school and college without reading it though - I believe my curriculum must have substituted another of Dickens' works in its stead.]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/feed/ 1 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:44 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=30 Today we talked about Casey’s non-cooperative game model for P2P networks, (using bittorrent as a specific example).  In a non-cooperative context, we talked about incentives to prevent leechers and promote sharing.  MessageReaper has the same need for incentives (the current model is based on past history) that reward current activities (like reputation). We also talked [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/feed/ 0 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 02:16:44 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=25 This totally rocks! A petition to have the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon series released on DVD. http://www.petitiononline.com/thundarr/petition.html]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/feed/ 0 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/07/got-to-get-one/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/07/got-to-get-one/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 01:56:07 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=16 I am speechless.  Well, almost.  One of those R2D2 toys, hacked to be a dvd projector…  Sweet!]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/07/got-to-get-one/feed/ 1 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/30/socialthing-rocks/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/30/socialthing-rocks/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:06:48 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=13 I started twittering a little while ago, just for the fun of it, partially as a result of being forced to keep a research journal.  After a while, I discovered the firefox extension, TwitterFox, and the integration application on Facebook that allows twitters to replace your “current activity” microblog in your profile.  But then I [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/30/socialthing-rocks/feed/ 0 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/26/technorati-claim/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/26/technorati-claim/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:16:16 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=14 This is my blog, technorati…]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/04/26/technorati-claim/feed/ 0