Archive for January, 2005

Blizzard of 2005

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

After dumping an average of 20 inches of snow on Connecticut, the first blizzard of 2005 has moved through leaving clear blue skies and sunshine mixed with bitter, arctic cold.  The whipping winds made huge snow drifts all around.  The picture below shows a huge snow drift on top of my car–unfortunately, it doesn’t look so impressive because they already started shoveling the parking lot by the time Paula took the picture.  That’s okay though, since there is enough coverage of “Blizzard 2005″ on TV to go around!

Stratus Beneath the Blizzard of 2005

Stratus Beneath the Blizzard of 2005

Anyway, the snowy roads have most of the businesses and stuff closed, so I’m inside updating my website.  Nothing too exciting going on this month, but keep checking back, because something exciting is bound to happen!

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Dominoes and Chessboards

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Dominoes and Chessboards
(c) 2005 by Jkb and JkbWorld
Reprinted from 01/20/2005

Introduction:

I was reading my Essentials of Artificial Intelligence book by Ginsberg and he mentioned a problem about placing 32 dominoes neatly on a chessboard. Then, after the dominoes were placed, two opposite corner spaces were cut off the chessboard and one of the dominoes was removed. The question was now, “Can you place 31 dominoes on an 8×8 chessboard with the corners cut off?”. He didn’t answer the question, leaving it as a task for the curious.

I knew I could simply look up the answer, but I wanted to write a program that could answer it for me. I also found a new Java library called POI that allows you to write to Excel files, so I wanted to use that at some point, too.

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Jkb’s Axis Fun with Google Web Services API

Monday, January 10th, 2005


Jkb’s Axis Fun with Google Web Services API
(c) 2005 by Jkb and JkbWorld.com
01/10/2005 (republished 8/27/2009 because of all the linking)
JkbWorld.com
Graphics kindly borrowed without permission from Google...

Introduction:

The Google Web Services API is a web service that allows developers like me to learn and integrate Google’s famous search engine capabilities into applications. This webpage is an attempt to capture some of the things I learned from it so that someone else might find it useful and also so I won’t forget how I did it. Here’s my story:

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