Hi! My name is Jonathan Heizer. I am a 24 year old from the United States and work as a .Net Developer. This site contains interest of mine, neat news stories, and progress of projects I am working on.
Oct
31
So far I have managed to create the base objects that will allow for the manipluation of the words and letters. I chose to represent each letter as a number. a->1 b->2 c->3 … To represent the inverse, is store -1, -2, -3… it is easier to play with numbers that [...]
Oct
28
Problem
The Bradley BEAR group that I am involved in is looking to prove/disprove the following concept.
Definitions
Alphabet: X={x1, x2,…, xn}
Syllables: x1±1, x2±1,…, xn±1
Words: Strings of syllables
Ex: x1 x2 x1-1 x5
Syllables are words of length one.
The (unique) word of length zero is denoted *.
Words are multiplied by using concatenation (and reduction)
Ex:
w1 = x1 x3 x2-1
w2 = x2 [...]
Oct
28
Today is the release date for the latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio. It is only availabe to MSDN subscribers right now, with everyone having access to the software on November 7th. Being a VB.Net programmer, this is very exciting news. I have been programming in the latest beta for the last [...]
Oct
27
US oil giant Exxon Mobil has posted a quarterly profit of $9.9bn, the largest in US corporate history, on the back of record oil and gas prices.
Profit was up 75% and revenue rose 32% to more than $100bn.
So why was I paying $3.00+/gallon…
BBC Exxon in biggest ever US profits
Oct
27
Information Week Story
I’m scared… There is just something about having Microsoft host a web site of mine. I hope they at least keep up with Windows Updates
Personally, I don’t hate Microsoft and IIS. This site is hosted on a Windows 2003 Server with and up time of 50 days right now. I just [...]
Oct
25
For those of you that love Dilbert, the writer just launched a blog. It contains rejected versions of cartoons and other funny items to keep you busy. I am excited to watch this blog mature. Check it out!
(via Blog Herald)
Oct
22
Man I wish I was in to the stock market…
Congrats to anyone that owns Google stock!
Oct
22
After writing about how much I love Google Personalized Homepage I realized I have out grown it. I have slowly been acquiring a rather large list of blogs and news sites that I track, and they are filling up the Google page. I guess I will finally have to switch over to a installed program. [...]
Oct
20
I have been a long time Gaim user and love their multi-platform, multi-protocol messenger. I recently was having a small bug appear and headed off to Gaim’s Site to check for any updates. There I found this:
“We’ve shifted all our efforts to finishing Gaim 2.0.0. Gaim 2.0.0 has a ton of great features, [...]
Oct
18
Mine is http://www.google.com/ig
This is our good friend Google’s Personalized hompage.
After Signing in with a gmail account you can start to customize your home page. I love this site mostly because it can pull xml/atom/rss feeds from various web sites. I can instantly check the major sites I visit almost every day.
And scrolled down [...]
Oct
18
I decided it was about time to tell you about myself. My name is Jon Heizer. I am currently a 22 year old college student attending Bradley University in Peoria, IL, USA. Its a nice mid sized private school in the middle of the state. When I am not in school, I live just [...]
Oct
18
In the age of the internet and 5 ga-zillion messengers, there are plenty of ways to contact me.
AIM: heezer7
Yahoo: jonheizer
MSN: heezer7@hotmail.com (I don’t check this email)
Google: jheizer
Email: jheizer (at) charter (dot) net
Feel free to send me an email or IM any time. I would love to chat and hear what you have to say.