When Brains Fly

It’s kinda funny that I have only been updating lately when something goes wrong with my computer. Oh well, until I have more time, that’s how it will be.
Lately, my hard drive has been having major startup problems. It would whir and clackle when trying to start after a night or a few hours off [...]

Through my university’s membership in the MSDNAA program, I acquired Windows 7 Professional for free! Whoo! I backed up my laptop yesterday onto my external hard drive (took up 16gb) and am installing Windows 7 now (which takes about 16gb!), wiping out everything. Hopefully it goes well.
Started around 5:45 or so.
Update 5:50pm – I [...]

I wasn’t really liking the Brain Power theme anymore, so I decided to make my own using the handy-dandy WordPress Theme Generator and then tweaked the details to my liking. It looks better now, in my opinion.
Hopefully these changes plus the smackdown on spam will encourage me to blog some more. (Comments will still be [...]

Finally, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4 and installed Akismet seemingly successfully. Spam be gone! I also set up svn upgrading of WordPress so that I don’t have to do so many steps next time around.
For reference, I used:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups to backup my stuff first
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress to do the upgrade
And then realizing that I could upgrade by [...]

I think this blog has paid off! I’ve used what I wrote in this post on remote desktop many times already because I just can’t remember how to do it right whenever working with a new mac. Plus, it is now the first result when you google “remote desktop into mac os x”, even without [...]

OMG Why do I get so much spam and no real comments?! Ugh.
Anyway.
TODO list for this site:

update blogroll
maybe change the images
make link to comments more visible from front page (e.g. at end of post)
update biographical info
add $$ to web hosting account
make text less wide looking
add adsense?
Make top links more distinctive or move [...]

Today, I got frustrated writing a command-line input parser for my Java program for lab, so I looked for one on the web. Surely a task so common must have some good libraries that take care of it easily. I was not disappointed.
Apache Commons has one, but it was kind of annoying. It left [...]

Today, my goal was to integrate Seam functionality into my group’s jsf project. The easiest way seemed to be to create a new project and gradually copy and paste code over to the old project. This would allow us to remove unnecessary or inefficient code that Seam would take care of for us and would [...]

Using remote desktop, you can access one computer from another computer through the internet or a local area network. Here, I’ll outline how to remote desktop into Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) from Windows, which is something I had to do today.
On the Mac, go to System Preferences > Sharing and check “Remote Login,” if [...]

Now that I finally have a working, styled blog, I can write about what I’m going to write about!
I’ll be primarily writing about two things here on When Brains Fly:
1) my main interest, which is research and technology at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, in fields such as computational neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence, [...]