This is a follow up to my previous post
I received another suspicious text message about Ask Mozoot the other night. The next morning, I checked my AT&T account and there was another $9.99 charge for Ask Mozoot. I called AT&T again and asked what was going on. It turns out that purchase blocking is available for [...]
Author Archives: Zach
Follow-up on Ask Mozoot
13 Nov 2009 – 6:57 pm
Update to Snow Leopard Bug
16 Oct 2009 – 5:52 pm
So it seems that there is an easier way to switch the network settings.
Create a new network location (I called mine “Wired Reset”). Switch location to “Wired Reset.” Hit Apply. Switch back to “Automatic.” Good news is that this can be accomplished via AppleScript. I know there are more elegant ways to script system preferences, [...]
Shady Text Messaging Services called Mozoot
14 Oct 2009 – 12:35 pm
Examining my mobile phone bill today, I saw a suspicious charge called “Ask Mozoot Alerts” under the Mobile Purchases & Downloads: Communication Charges section.
Somehow I was signed up for (I use passive voice because I do not recall or know if this was there was an action on my part that precipitated this) a text messaging service [...]
Snow Leopard Network Bug and the DHCP Two-step
14 Sep 2009 – 12:10 pm
UPDATE: Updated and easier fix here.
I updated to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard the day it came out. For the record, I take full responsibility for the pains of being an early adopter and normally am quite patient with quirks of early releases. I don’t want to complain (maybe I do a little bit), but [...]
Death to Folder Hierarchies
9 Apr 2009 – 9:01 am
Receiving materials from a classmate has made the issue of folder hierarchies more salient to me. In these comprehensive exam materials, articles are arranged by topic, which makes sense, but before that there is a dichotomous hierarchy imposed on the topics: industrial and organizational (I dislike this false distinction in my field, but that’s another story). [...]
Follow Up to SPSS Woes
9 Mar 2009 – 9:11 am
I figured what was going on with the inaccurate scatter plot from the Chart Builder. For some reason, the variables were being treated as Nominal, despite the variable view showing them as Scale!
This may be an artifact of an import from SAS, but the Legacy Dialogs and Descriptives treat both variables as if they are [...]
What is wrong with the Chart Builder in SPSS?
7 Mar 2009 – 12:33 pm
Why do the chart builder and legacy dialogs output radically different scatterplots in SPSS?
My new reconstruction of SMiLE
31 Jan 2009 – 4:00 pm
UPDATE 04 February 2010: I have posted the tracks here
I recently did a new reconstruction (remix or completion if you will) of The Beach Boys’s SMiLE from vintage 1967 tracks into a cohesive piece. If you are unfamiliar with SMiLE see here and here. This is my third crack at doing this. The first time was [...]
10,000 Hours (Yeah, right, Malcolm!)
17 Nov 2008 – 4:08 pm
Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers makes the audacious claim that 10,000 hours of practice is the magic number for obtaining expertise (from Daring Fireball)
Having done a fair amount of reading on expertise (though it is not my research area), I can say the 10,000 hours figure for expertise attainment is arbitrary and quite problematic. Psychological [...]
Fixing Computers
8 Sep 2008 – 9:07 pm
As the de facto tech support for my grad program, roommate, and family (which is weird with a PhD electrical engineer and a M.A. in technology education), I am often greeted with awe and wonder (well, not by the immediate family). Not that this is not nice, it is not exactly warranted. It’s not really [...]