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I saw this piece randomly. http://www.hulu.com/embed/amzomr0rGhlHy22D7Jd3gw It’s a TED talk form David Brooks (NY Times columnist) about the evolution of our social society. I picked up on it because my interest in college really focused around the power of social networks. This piece goes a little deeper. It talks beyond even our conscious networks, to our subconscious networks. This is an interesting aspect I hadn’t directly considered. This is not a scientific piece as much as it is an emotional one. I thought it was worthwhile. ...

I’m a new C# programmer. I’m using it for a project at work. Doing an ASP.NET MVC project. So far I’ve been very happy with the language. It has some nice stuff built in. ASP.NET MVC is pretty nice too. It’s almost as easy to use as rails. So, all in all, I’m pretty happy, but today I ran into something stupid. I have a method that is trying to do a TryUpdateModel(model, new[] {"prop1", "prop2"}); call and my model wasn’t getting updated. I checked out the associated FormCollection and sure enough my values were in it. The problem was in how I was defining my model. ...

Here is a card from my mom sent from one of my favorite places, Newport, RI.

This is a great card from Mike and Kerry, sent while visiting a friend in Edinburgh.

I’ve been searching for pictures of myself that I really like. And while I have a couple from friends that I find rather fun: Anyway, I don’t have enough. And I’m vein. So this leads me to a self assigned project. The Self Portrait Photo Assignment. As with any assignment there are rules. Here are the rules. Have to take the photo yourself. Can’t buy additional camera equipment for this project. Can’t buy any special clothing Final product should be 5-10 different photos that are taken under different circumstances. Photos should reflect your character. I’m going to try to have my stuff done by December 1, 2010. Let me know if you want to join. ...