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Planned books:
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Current books:
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Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python by Maria Litvin and Gary Litvin
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Statistics In Plain English by Timothy C. Urdan
Recent books:
- Practical Machine Learning in R by Fred Nwanganga, Mike Chapple
- Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim
- The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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Author Archives: Robert S. Robbins
Gothic Cruise 2008 – October 16th
On Thursday the Carnival Glory arrived at Grand Turk Island and docked at the Grand Turk Cruise Terminal which Carnival built for $50 million dollars. This was the most picture perfect Caribbean island we visited and the only one were … Continue reading
Gothic Cruise 2008 – October 15th
Wednesday was another “Fun Day At Sea” which I spent in my stateroom listening to my DELL Axim Pocket PC and reading the mass market paperback “The Lost Tomb”, a 400 page plus book which I almost finished reading on … Continue reading
Gothic Cruise 2008 – October 13th
Monday was a “Fun Day At Sea”. Or at least that is how Carnival Cruise Lines puts it. I was bored silly, or least I would have been if I was not psyched by the goth scene onboard. I spent … Continue reading
Gothic Cruise 2008 – October 12th
On the second day of the cruise we docked in Nassau on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. I was well prepared for this port of call because on my previous visit I bought the book “A History … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Asmodeus X, CombiChrist, Daimonic Reality, Frappuccino, Michael Macy, Nassau, pirate, Spiderwick Chronicles
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Gothic Cruise 2008 – October 11th
I may as well reveal that the cruise I went on was actually a special theme cruise, the Gothic Cruise which is offered by All Genre Travel and sponsored by Gothic Beauty Magazine & Vampirerave.com. Since this may raise a … Continue reading
Vacation Notice
I will be going on vacation soon. I will be gone from Saturday October 11th through Saturday October 18. I won’t have Internet access so I will be unable to check my email or attend to any emergencies. I’m going … Continue reading
Pennsylvania Congressmen Who Supported The $700 Billion Bail Out
A lot of people are angry about the $700 billion dollar bail out of Wall Street banks for their bad mortgage debt, but how many of them are going to take any action? Congress frequently gets away with defying the … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged $700 billion bail out, Arlen Specter, Bob Casey, John Peterson, Pennsylvania congressmen
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Hamlet
Last night I saw the William Shakespeare play “Hamlet” performed live at the Community Arts Center downtown. I have not gone to that theater in a long time because their selection of entertainment has been terrible. This is possibly due … Continue reading
Office Equipment Status
If you are going to run a home office and do freelance web development then you need to invest in your own office equipment. When I left my old job there were a lot of things I needed to buy … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Hardware
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Business Status Report
So what is the status of my business these days? My pool of clients is shrinking. I now have only two paying clients and one of them hasn’t been paying my invoices. I may need to concentrate more on my … Continue reading
Firebug, PHP, JavaScript, and Media RSS
I continue to spend a lot of time just on improving my web development skills. Recently I’ve been working on some complicated JavaScript which required me to spend an entire day researching how to parse XML using JavaScript. I created … Continue reading
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on Windows XP
This week I decided to be daring and install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on my Windows XP computer at home. I especially like the Developer Tools which are similar to Firebug and Firefox’s Web Developer toolbar. The ruler is … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, JavaScript, Web
Tagged Color Picker, CSS editor, Developer Tools, IE 8 Beta 2, Image Ruler, Internet Explorer 8, JavaScript Errors
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PHP Encryption And CakePHP On The iBook
Today I continued my intensive work on PHP web development. I spent about 3 hours studying PHP’s many methods of encrypting data. There are a variety of encryption algorithms that you can use including MD5, SHA-1, DES etc so it … Continue reading
PHP Web Applications
Today I figured out how to add a custom property to one of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit’s controls, the Calendar control. I added a property so I could set its initial mode to years. You can read all about … Continue reading
The Improved YouTube Tag Cloud
I have made an improvement to my YouTube Tag Cloud page. While browsing some web design sites I came across a blog post about Beautiful Word Clouds which showed some images of fancy word clouds. They used a fancy font … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Graphics, JavaScript, Web
Tagged jQuery, tag cloud, YouCloud, YouTube
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Flash Cartoon Animation
Over the weekend I finished reading the book “Flash Cartoon Animation” by Kevin Peaty and Glen Kirkpatrick. Flash cartooning interests me because it could be an easy way to create original content for video sharing sites. A simple Flash cartoon … Continue reading
Philadelphia Trip – Sunday
Since I stayed overnight in Philadelphia, I decided to do some sightseeing on Sunday. It is too much of a hassle to drive to Philadelphia for me to waste the opportunity to see the historical sites. I got up very … Continue reading
YoTube – Philadelphia Gathering – Saturday
I will describe my recent trip to Philadelphia for a YouTube gathering in depth because there are various travel related details I want to remember for future trips. I’ve been to Philadelphia twice before; once for the Philly Fringe Festival … Continue reading
Posted in Vlogging
Tagged Ben Franklin, Dave and Buster, Independence Mall, Philadelphia, Travel, YouTube
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Making Progress Learning Flash
I made excellent progress in learning Flash over the July 4th weekend. I added ten pages to my notes on Flash and ActionScript. I used to know a little about Flash back when I worked for Kolb Net Works but … Continue reading