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I'm JWC, an amateur programmer, web designer, hacker, MIT student, and general electronics enthusiast. This site is a repository for my hardware and software projects.

 

Latest Blog Post

February Desktop Screenshot

Mostly the same as last month, but I’ve switched my music player to MOC.  I also used MPD a bit, but I like this one better.

 

News

icsy – I Can’t Sleep Yet!

Throughout this past semester, I was continually impressed by the benefits of powernapping.  However, unfortunately, I’m one of those people who shut off their alarms and go back to sleep all the time.  So, my 20-minute powernaps became full nights’ rests.  Normally, I wouldn’t mind that, but it made things very difficult when I had [...]

New Site Design

… but you may have already figured that out.

A Day in the Life of an MIT Student 2009

MIT’s yearbook club, Technique, sponsors a fun little event every year called ADITL — “A Day in the Life” (MIT does everything in acronyms and numbers, remember?).  Basically, the group invites students to bring their cameras around from 12am Thursday, September 24 to following midnight.  The goal: take pictures of the things you typically do [...]

Dotman – A Dotfile Config Manager

Some time ago, I started to get annoyed at the bothersome task of copying configuration files between my desktop, laptop, and remote environments.  First of all, copying the configs typically involved a lot of repetitive scp’s. The second annoyance is a little worse: some of my dotfiles need a few special settings that are [...]

Vacation Pics from Greece and Croatia

Sorry they’re a little late, but here they are.  I had to put them on another server for space reasons, but I’ll sort it out later.
http://jwcxz.com/pictures/grhr09