Released: Duration 0.1.0

I’m thrilled to announce the release of Duration 0.1.0.
Duration is a timespan manipulation library that tells you how much time has passed since a certain time, or how long a certain amount of seconds is in more human-readable measurements.
As of 0.1.0, the Duration library has been completely rewritten, BigDuration (and all its […]

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Posted at 12/21/07 14:40 | no comments | Filed Under: Programming, Releases, Ruby

Two reasons why I think smokers can’t quit

The other day while coming home from KFC (buying dinner), I spent some time thinking (as a smoker myself) why a lot of people who smoke can or can’t quit the disgusting habit.  I came to realize that there are two significant reasons.
The two reasons are nicotine addiction (obviously) and will-power.   Now to many […]

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Posted at 12/16/07 22:32 | no comments | Filed Under: Bad Habits

Downloading YouTube videos, the programmer HOWTO

Have you ever thought about making a script or program to download the Flash videos from YouTube?  I have, and I’ve done little research (or enough to know my way around) on figuring out how to successfully take a given URL where you watch the video and retrieving the actual URL to the video file using […]

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Posted at 12/14/07 11:44 | no comments | Filed Under: PHP, Programming, YouTube

Happy birthday to me!

Well, this is it.  It’s December 13 here in Korea and it’s my birthday.  This is the day I turn 21!  Yay, everyone celebrate!  Where’s the booze!?
No presents today, probably won’t get any until I visit my folks on Saturday.  Yep, looks like there’s nothing for me to do until then.
I guess I can slack […]

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Posted at 12/13/07 7:07 | no comments | Filed Under: Anime, Celebration

What is Git? Torvalds explains

A couple days ago while I was sitting in front of my MacBook just lazy and bored, I was presented with a YouTube video of Linus Torvalds explaining Git.
I like the idea of a truly distributed source control management software, but I haven’t tried it yet.  Perhaps this is something to look into for a […]

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Posted at 12/12/07 6:42 | no comments | Filed Under: Technology, YouTube

It’s alive!

Greetings to those who have chosen to read my boring weblog.  The original plan was to make one of my own from scratch but suddenly I got tremendously lazy and decided I want to do other things instead of worrying about a lousy blog.
This blog will probably be updated daily or from a period of […]

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Posted at 12/12/07 3:58 | no comments | Filed Under: Uncategorized

About

Matt is a 21 year old hobbyist software developer who enjoys writing random software using various technologies. Matt is half Korean and half American. He was born in Seoul, South Korea on December 13, 1986. Currently he lives in Seoul, South Korea by himself where he enjoys sleeping at home all day.