Notes for a future reading of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed.

August 14, 2008
James Skemp

The below page references refer to the Signet Classic version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. suicide/life: 109-112, 421 marriage/children: 119 charity: 323 free will: 637 Great Idea/life: 679-680 Passages may be elaborated upon in future articles.

August 12, 2008
James Skemp

I couldn't post this without creating an account, so ... This is in regards to this comment. Full post. I agree with montysimmons - the attack on George Washington was uncalled for. However, he makes an interesting point that they've been able to make the technology easy enough for someone from the 18th Century to understand and use. This is in fact better than saying "easy enough for a child to use," which may have been better, since even children use computers these days.

August 7, 2008
James Skemp

Got a notice of http://littlebigplanet.us.playstation.com/ in my Gmail account a few moments ago. I was unaware that LittleBigPlanet was already available for pre-order. I looked at Amazon, but, quite frankly, I want it rather quickly. BestBuy.com doesn't have it listed, but Gamestop.com does, so ... my first online purchase through that site. Store pick-up selected, of course. What I don't care for is that there will supposedly be different items available for pre-ordering, depending upon where you do so.

August 1, 2008
James Skemp

This morning Charter fixed whatever issues they were having, so I was able to purchase and download the full version of PixelJunk Eden. I played 30 minutes this morning, and many hours this afternoon/evening. (When I shut down for the last time, my rank was 1013 - I'm sure it's already changed though.) As the demo suggested, this game is the closest thing to a masterpiece I've seen in a very long time.

July 27, 2008
James Skemp

I was big into 3d rendering in college, since I had a good deal of free time, and I wanted to do something productive. Anyways, trueSpace, a fairly big name in 3D, is now available for free, thanks to Microsoft. It sounds like this was for Virtual Earth in particular, but Channel 9 (which is where I heard this release notice from) points out, correctly, that it's also very valuable for games (in particular, for Microsoft's XBox and game generation tools).

July 26, 2008
James Skemp

I'm sure I'll need to tweak it, but I've technically launched my galleries for my photography 'business' (I use the word lightly at this point). View the galleries online at http://jamesrskemp.com/gallery/ It only took three days, but I'm pretty happy with how things turned out. I'd really like to have the individual photos display a bit better, but ...

July 24, 2008
James Skemp

The following is a book review of Apache JMeter, written by Emily H. Halili. First off, my experience with automated software/application testing is extremely limited. For the most part any testing I've done has been manual testing. Recently, however, I was introduced to, and began using, Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool. Because of this level of experience, Emily Halili's Apache JMeter was the perfect book for me, as it contains an analysis of automated testing (including when best to do it, versus manual testing), in addition to the introduction to Apache JMeter.

July 24, 2008
James Skemp

The following is errata for Apache JMeter, by Emily H. Halili, and has been submitted to Packt Publishing. Read my review. Page 4, 2nd to last sentence: 'downlad' should be 'download' Page 13, last sentence: "You *too can* contribute." Page 39, 1st paragraph, last sentence: "as *a* failed request." Page 42, 1st paragraph, last sentence: "retrieve *a* particular value" Page 48, last list item: display shows "KB/sec" but the list item is "Kb/sec" Page 48: Is the mean time in ms?

July 23, 2008
James Skemp

Since I can't fall asleep, and since experience has taught me that it's best to write when I've got things running through my head ... Why I went to college You go to college once you're done with high school - unless you're going straight into the workforce. At the time I was working at a Culvers, which I enjoyed because of a number of people that I worked with, but I knew that I couldn't make that my profession.

July 19, 2008
James Skemp

I don't know if this is a suggestion, or if the information is already available. I'd really like to be able to see a complete listing of movies that I've rated. A complete listing of movies I've rated and that are in my queue is buried in the privacy tab, and I can page through movies that I've rated, but there's no way to get all the movies I've rated on one page.

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Notes for a future reading of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed.

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