Welcome to Douglas Thrift's Website

Just in case you were wondering, yes, this is the official site of Douglas Thrift, it is owned and maintained by me, Douglas Thrift.

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Table of Contents

• About Me
• Website Stuff
  • Subdomains
  • Search
• From My Blog
  • Unicode Christmas and Other Holidays ☃
  • Moar Pictures from Google I/O
  • I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go
  • The Future Is Now!
  • Coder's Workshop Rescheduled
• Links
  • del.icio.us
• Time Zones

About Me

If you hadn't guessed already, I am Douglas Thrift. My full name is Douglas William Thrift, but you can call me Doug or Douglas. I am from Ojai, CA, USA and currently live in Goleta, CA, USA. My current age is approximately 27 years, 4 months, and 2 days. I am currently a hacker for SaurikIT and the Computer Science Lab administrator for the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

• Douglas Thrift's Blog My blog: a collection of random thoughts, commentary, and crazed opinions.
• Douglas Thrift's Nonexistent Journal My LiveJournal: like my blog only more so, but with Top Secret stuff (maybe).
• Wikitastic An experiment in the personal wiki category, whatever that means.
• Facebook | Douglas William Thrift My Facebook Profile: but you already know that.
• LinkedIn: Douglas Thrift

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From My Blog

Unicode Christmas and Other Holidays ☃

Tags: christmas, stuff, tree, unicode

Britta and I launched Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree, a web app that lets you decorate and send Unicode Xmas trees, on Monday. On Tuesday I submitted it to MetaFilter Projects and before long it was on MetaFilter as SEVEN SYMBOLS...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:03 AM

Moar Pictures from Google I/O

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

Apparently Google has released its pictures from Google I/O, so much like previously in I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go I've compiled their pictures of us:...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM

I/O, I/O, It's off to disk I go

Tags: conference, google, googleio, insanity, io2008

On Tuesday, after the CCS All College Meeting, Jay asked me if I wanted to "go to the Bay Area". Phill's web design class had left to go San Francisco for Google I/O earlier that day, missing the meeting. Anyway,...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:52 PM

The Future Is Now!

Tags: c++, database, dooom, freebsd, software, terminal

[douglas@slowhand:~]$ uname -a FreeBSD slowhand.douglasthrift.net 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-jc1 #0: F ri Feb 16 19:33:37 PST 2007 user@jail14.johncompanies.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/s ys/jail14 i386 [douglas@slowhand:~]$ █ Yep, you guessed it, you are looking at my blog served from my new virtual FreeBSD server with John...

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 6:31 AM

Coder's Workshop Rescheduled

Tags: dooom, insanity, teach

My course, Coder's Workshop, has been rescheduled. Hopefully, this means more people can be there for the whole time....

Posted by Douglas Thrift on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 1:31 PM

Links

• Vance, Thrift and Biller LLP | CPAs
• Villanova Preparatory School
• KCLU Public Radio - NPR & Jazz
• Ken's Sharpening & Services
• The Avatar's Journal Jay Freeman
• Ventura High School Class of 1969
• daskling.net Matthew Shayefar
• Hamlet on the Moon
• jeweled platypus Britta Gustafson
• POSSIBLE INSTANTANEOUS COMBUSTION Colin Curtin
• Whim: Custom Treasure Hunts Graham Talley
• Teludriel's Oil Paintings: It isn't done by number here. Natalie Joy Williams
• Vegetarian Industrial Complex
• Eat Places

del.icio.us

I am douglaswth on del.icio.us; I have 22 people in my network; I have 16 fans; add me to your network.

	Cyrket 2.0 -- Developer's Cockpit for Android Market It's always funny to see what various journalists get wrong about Jay. to android personal stuff fun ccscslab … on Feb 6, 2010 at 12:36 AM
	Posts by Wil Wheaton at TV Squad to tv startrek history … saved by 223 other people … on Jan 20, 2010 at 8:27 AM
	History - Autoconf Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy!? to history insanity documentation unix linux freebsd solaris perl ccscslab … on Nov 25, 2009 at 3:15 AM
	cyoa · zork to games history computerscience via:britta … saved by 1087 other people … on Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM
	A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News to lego brain stuff ccscslab via:britta … saved by 321 other people … on Nov 4, 2009 at 11:11 PM
	Why can't I access the administrative shares or remote administrative functions from a remote computer? to windows documentation insanity … saved by 13 other people … on Oct 29, 2009 at 9:06 PM
	A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database « Jon Udell to history database calendar insanity fun infrastructure propaganda tz ccscslab via:straup … saved by 79 other people … on Oct 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM
	Python port of Unidecode to documentation python perl unicode … on Oct 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
	Elkhound and Elsa to c++ computerscience documentation algorithms via:saurik ccscslab … saved by 6 other people … on Oct 21, 2009 at 7:55 PM
	Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Small Bridges (to Proximate Spaces) to flickr geo stuff trains infrastructure fun ccscslab … saved by 24 other people … on Oct 19, 2009 at 11:57 PM
	Machinarium to fun games art via:britta ccscslab … saved by 1323 other people … on Oct 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM
	suggestify (alpha) to flickr everything geo ccscslab via:britta … saved by 20 other people … on Oct 6, 2009 at 12:03 AM
	A smooth idea for the 710 Freeway -- latimes.com to stuff trucks infrastructure cars history … saved by 1 other person … on Oct 2, 2009 at 2:17 AM
	Interactive -- latimes.com to stuff trucks infrastructure cars history … on Oct 2, 2009 at 2:05 AM
	Graphic: How to repair a broken freeway -- latimes.com to stuff trucks infrastructure cars history … saved by 1 other person … on Oct 2, 2009 at 1:58 AM

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Time Zones

Location	Date and Time
Greenwich, England	Monday, February 8, 2010 11:19:08 PM GMT
California	Monday, February 8, 2010 3:19:08 PM PST
Colorado	Monday, February 8, 2010 4:19:08 PM MST
Washington, DC	Monday, February 8, 2010 6:19:08 PM EST
Japan	Tuesday, February 9, 2010 8:19:08 AM JST

[douglas@topsecret:~]$ stardate
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