While I’m not in school, I try to continue my language studies as much as possible.  I use a couple of website to do this that touch on different areas of language learning.  An added bonus is that they’re both free, so you don’t have to waste money on expensive programs like Rosetta Stone.
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While most people end up accessing my blog by visiting my site, there’s a good chunk of people who read my posts through Facebook.  The only downside to this is that the comments people posted via Facebook weren’t getting added and archived to my site.  For a while, I looked for a solution to this, [...]

A couple months ago, I wrote about how one of my posts was attracting a large amount of spam after being featured on Lifehacker.  As a result, I explored some ways to deal with the problem.  I’m largely satisfied with the result.  Both Akismet and Bad Behavior are doing a great job of stopping spam; [...]

This semester, I decided fill the role of Issues Awareness Committee (IAC) chairman here on campus.  Basically what this entails is coordinating events that inform Asbury’s campus about current events.  So far, IAC has hosted a political Faculty Debate, all televised presidential debates, an “election watch” the night of the election, and a showing of [...]

So before I left for China this summer, I wrote an article about how to turn your Nintendo DS into a dictionary.  Well the post got picked up on Lifehacker, a productivity blog that’s entirely more popular and prominent than my own.  Needless to say, I was very grateful for the exposure it gave me [...]

For the past hour, I’ve been trying to find a way to update Street Static without having to access it directly.  Doing my research, I stumbled across a convenient Firefox extension called Deepest Sender.  It allows you to post to your blog directly from Firefox.  This is convenient for a variety of reasons, especially if [...]

A great habit that’s come about as a result of my increased travel is the creation of trip specific packing lists.  I started doing this during freshman year in college, when I would head home for the weekend.  I’d get out a sheet, and write down each item I needed/wanted to bring home.  At first, [...]

Having a portable dictionary on hand is essential for anyone traveling to a foreign county.  After searching for homebrew dictionary solutions for the Nintendo DS, I managed to stumble across a nice little application called NewDictS that utilizes open source StarDicts.  Using your NDS and a flash card, it’s possible to have all sorts of [...]