Shannon Graham

Skipping School

by | Nov 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

I stayed home from school today. I thought all my classes would be cancelled because of a teacher’s strike, but it turns out that my teachers have no objection to crossing picket lines, and classes went on as usual. However, by the time I found out, I was...

New Phone Time

by | Nov 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

A couple weeks ago, my Blackberry started acting up. When the battery was low – not very low, like maybe half – I would get a white screen. All the buttons stopped working, I couldn’t turn it off, just bright white screen with nothing on it, until...

Getting a little further with Stripe

by | Oct 4, 2012 | Uncategorized

Edit: I had some success getting it running with C#, read it about it here.   Ok, so now I’ve got the code for the payment form and the action for it on my server and running, and I can at least tell whether stuff is working or not (it’s not). Check...

Writer’s Block?

by | Sep 26, 2012 | Uncategorized

I’m teaching a kid to ride a bicycle. “Be careful not to run into that mailbox”, I tell her. She doesn’t know how to steer yet, so she zeroes in on the mailbox, focussing so hard on not hitting it that she rams it head on. If I hadn’t...