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Prototype Sustainable Map for the UT Austin Campus

I usually keep my writings on my personal blog and The Daily Texan separate, but I’ll make an exception here: this post is an addendum to my recent opinion column on sustainability and the UT campus map.

Here’s how I think the campus map should look like. I took the visitor map from the Parking and Transportation Services website and...

Hacking Piazza with Cross-Site Scripting

Piazza is a free classroom discussion service marketed for science and mathematics classes. It is best described as a hybrid wiki and forum; students can post questions, and other students can collaborate on answers. Like WordPress, content can be formatted with a rich-text editor or with plain HTML with a restricted set of features. Piazza’s distinguishing feature is the ability...

A Study of BRT Arrival Times in Austin, TX

As part of an open-ended class project, I wrote a program to collect arrival time statistics for Capital Metro BRT buses.

You can check out the final report here.

Creating a Guest Network with a Tomato Router

Here are my notes on how to portion off a guest wireless network for… you know, guests… if you have a router powered by the excellent Tomato third-party firmware. (I run Tomato RAF on a Linksys E4200.)

It’s not meant to be an exhaustive guide, because there are a few already on the Internet. Rather this is how I achieved...

Windows: Combat Evolved: a Halo Satire

What would Microsoft’s Halo video game series be like if it involved Microsoft itself?

The Introduction

Halo tells the story of 26th century humanity, which has organized itself under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command (Microsoft). Humans are fighting a losing war against the Covenant (Apple), a theocratic collection of alien races that worship a long-dead alien species...