http://iamstuffed.com/blog Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:17:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At work, I've been working on a new Java3D project.  Java3D has been great so far, and I've gotten a simple visualization program up and running in two weeks.  Today, I had to figure out how to determine the actual width of a Text2D object.  Creating a BoundingBox with the ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/06/10/text2d-class/ At the end of April, I purchased a used Bike Friday Tikit from the shop in College Park, MD. It was sold to me at a good price, and I've had fun riding it over the last couple weeks. After all the rave reviews about Bike Friday's customer ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/13/my-experience-with-bike-fridays-customer-service/ Recently, I won an ebay auction for a wheelset that came off a Cannondale hybrid bike. I was mainly interested in the SRAM Dual Drive hub, since I'd like to use it with my Tikit. When I got home today, I finally got a change to play with ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/11/sram-dual-drive-hub/ Today I drove back from PA with four cases of water, one 27" CRT Television, two backpacks, two boxes of bike parts, one Bike Friday Tikit, one Downtube 9, one dvd player and speaker system, and four cases of water (for my brother). Impressive isn't it? I can't ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/11/packed-car/ Here is the map of my commute on my Tikit: Map http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/07/google-map-of-my-commute/ Today I biked to work using my Bike Friday Tikit (19.5 miles? I stopped measuring the distance after the security gate). Overall the bike handled pretty well, but I had some issues with the pannier bag on the front rack. Eventually I'll post the google maps version of ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/07/my-commute-to-work-with-the-tikit/ I recently tried registering my Bike Friday Tikit with Bike Friday but they can't seem to help me find the frame number (serial number?).  The location the website lists is either the folding stem or the bottom of the bottom bracket shell.  I checked both locations and don't see any ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/06/tikit-frame-number/ Dear E-mail Users, The new NASA™ Webmail is a fast and light-weight appliction to quickly and easily access your e-mail. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting NASA™ Webmail to create more space for new email. To prevent your email from closing you will have to ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/05/06/phishing-email-at-work/ Last week I bought a used folding bike by Bike Friday called a Tikit (the hyperfold version, Tikit2Ride).  I was a little surprised that they allowed me to purchase the demo bike, but that was fine with me.  It saved me a couple hundred dollars and weeks of waiting.   It ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/04/30/bike-friday-tikit/ p7zip is a unix command line version of the 7-zip program.  Generally, the algorithm used by 7-zip to compress files (LZMA) produces smaller files than zip, gzip, and bzip2.  Recently I tried installing it on my work laptop, an Apple MacBook Pro, by downloading and compiling from source (version 4.57).  ... http://iamstuffed.com/blog/2008/03/05/compiling-p7zip-for-osx-104/