Caitlin Woodward
January 28, 2010
Super Prime Phone Number
At work, we were designing some new business cards for me (more on that later!), when I decided that I wanted to put my mobile number on there, but not my actual cell phone number. So I decided that I was going to try and start using a Google Voice local number to forward to my cell, that way I can see which number is being called. Anyway. So...
September 19, 2009
The Old AIM Warn Wars
The other day at the office, Andy decided he would spam Lisa since she actually signed onto AIM. There was a full minute or maybe more of alternating keys from Andy's desk (the trick is hold Cmd down, and alternate between V and shift). This minute included Lisa's "Are you serious?!" look, also. The menubar and dock icon slowly...
September 17, 2009
In A Subpixel Font
The other day I was surfing the web, and found a blog post on a handmade subpixel type family. This particular font has a x-height of 3 pixels, which means the letter "x" is 3px tall.
I...
May 5, 2009
My First Stylesheet
I was digging in the wayback machine and was surprised to find various versions of my old website, which managed to survive my adolescence. Sadly, I couldn't find any of my pre-teen sites, but those were more Pokémon fan sites and stuff than a personal website or blog anyway; oh, and they were built in WYSIWYG anyway. (RIP...
March 12, 2009
My Workspace: A Web Developer's Perspective
Lately I have been interested in improving my workflow. I've spent the past month or so trying new ways of doing things in hopes of making my workflow a little better. Not much luck. I can't even find a good blog article for tips.
So I thought I would share my workspace with you. I use my MacBook as my primary monitor,...
February 23, 2009
Color Preference
I am sitting here working on my site, when I randomly decide to pull up the color information with the web dev toolbar....
February 16, 2009
Firefox Keywords
How often do you find yourself going to google.com to do a search? Going to amazon.com to look for a product? Some suggest using the little search box in the top right of most browser, but personally that search box annoys me. Why not make use of the URL bar?
One of my favorite features of Firefox has always been the keyword search. This...
February 1, 2009
Twitter Filters: The Missing Feature
Twitter is great. We all love twitter. It's simple, and that's what is great about it. It does not have a lot of features, but that is usually fixed by a third party app. There is one major feature, however, that I feel is missing and would have to be implemented by Twitter themselves. Filters.
Currently you have two privacy...
December 31, 2008
One Word
"What's your login name?"
"Caitlin Woodward."
"One word?"
"WOOD-WARD... oh, yes." ...
December 25, 2008
A Christmas Story
I don't remember where I got this, but I find it in my documents every now and again. It's my favorite Christmas joke:
This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas, when the Three Wise Men; Gaspar, Balthazar and Herb, went to see the baby Jesus and, according to the Book of Matthew, "presented unto Him...
September 4, 2008
10-2-4
"What's with that clock? 2, 4, 10?"
"Um, those old Dr. Pepper ads? You haven't seen those? My grandparents used to have that clock."
"What does it mean?"
"I don't know. It was just some ad campaign they did."
"Oh. I was starting to think, oh, well, I thought it was some...
September 3, 2008
Life Defining
Some of my life-defining moments:Doing pages of math work, praying for no little mistakes, and getting the answer correct!Completing math proofsBuilding a full website without crossbrowser testing, and it only having minimal errors in IEReceiving hugs from my brothers, my sister, my mom, and my dadMaking her...
August 29, 2008
Complex Cartesian
My Complex Analysis book reads, It is presumed that the reader is familiar with the Cartesian coordinate system.
...why would you be taking Complex Analysis if you weren't?...
June 25, 2008
Erdös-Ko-Rado
Following my previous post, Erdös quickly became my favorite mathematician. One, he specialized in graph theory, currently my favorite branch of math. And two, the Erdös number thing was just too cool.
I remember when I was in grade school, my dad's classroom at the school he taught at had a computer lab in it. He named...
June 24, 2008
Math Narcissism
A couple years ago, I learned about this thing called the Mathematics Genealogy Project. It's a math family tree based on mathematicians who have earned their PhD. A mathematician's parent is their PhD advisor. It's very neat how few links it takes to link one of your own math professors to famous mathematicians. Only four links up,...
June 21, 2008
Changing Sides
"Wanna try to partition your hard drive again?"
"Nah, we can do it in Seattle."
"Your backup is here, though. If it messes up, you will have to wait to get your files back."
"I know. Yeah... I might need some of them."
"Like what?"
"Some of my research documents,...
June 9, 2008
Roman Numeral Clocks
I have developed a recent obsession with analog clocks. Not just any analog clock, but one with roman numeral numbers. Take a look at these two clocks. Notice anything unusual?...
May 19, 2008
Credit Cards
Today at work, Andy was complaining about the company business card (that was actually designed by guys who work here) and how it was hard to read the numbers. I told him that he is supposed to feel the numbers. He laughed.
That made me wonder if they made credit cards in braille. Turns out some credit card companies actually make them...
March 12, 2008
Elevator Interrogation
The other day, I was headed to work, riding up the elevator in my office building. A white-haired business man got in the elevator with me. You could tell he was high in ranks by the quality of his suit, but he also a natural smile about him, no doubt had a couple of grandchildren.
I pushed the "6" button, and he didn't...
March 7, 2008
Caitlin's Approval
Mom: Go get Caitlin's approval.
Conlan, walking over: Where's your approval?...
February 21, 2008
The Bird and ER Scenarios
A bird almost flew into the side of my face today. I was walking out of an open doorway on the school campus, and this huge black bird swiped down and inches in front of me. Had I been a few seconds faster or it had been a few seconds slower, it would have flown directly into the side of my face. Now, don't get me wrong, I am very glad it...
January 14, 2008
Poop Invariant
My algorithms professor writes the lowercase letter "l" with loops. Because of this, whenever he writes the word loop, it actually looks like "Poop". See picture (I apologize for...
