Domain Pricing (the registrars cost)
COM $ 7.06
NET $ 5.18
ORG $ 6.95
INFO $ 6.95
BIZ $ 6.42
NAME $ 6.20

I was delighted to find the wordpress native app on my iPhone connected easily to my blog. I don’t even have my blog hosted on wordpress. It is a self hosted wordpress blog and it still worked. Now I can update the Steven Hansen weblog easily even without a wifi connection. (plus with the new copy and paste I can even paste text right in here from a note, email, Internet or wherever!

Here is a quick video of one of the more simpler pylon courses our truck was able to complete at the practice competition last week. The truck is only told the color of the next pylon, the truck then drives itself towards the closest pylon of that color, goes around it and then looks for the next pylon of the correct color. The on board camera and FPGA are doing all of the vision processing internally. Besides myself, Steven Hansen, there are 3 others on my project team: Brandon, Luke, and Jaren

It is not that Steven Hansen is a widely sought after keyword or anything. It is the simple fact that there are thousands of Steven Hansens all over the world. I can’t go to a doctor without having to give my exact address or phone number, since they have more then one person in their database with my same exact first and last name. So on the web when you search for my name you get a Steven Hansen that is an attorney, a Steven Hansen who was part of a movie, a Steven Hansen that is part of a band, and more recently, you get a Steven Hansen that is the Owner of the Spatical Company and actually refers to this website! Hooray! I have moved up in the rankings to a findable first page listing.

I guess it wasn’t very hard. Since the competition wasn’t really high, I simply needed to start optimizing for my name and bingo it is done. Now maybe if I ever do get famous, I’ll already own the top spots for my name.

For a large project in my Computer Science class at BYU (cs240), I needed to implement a simple webcrawler, that would create a database of words, each page that contains each word, and a database of all of the pages that were crawled (whether they had parsed words on them or not). It was a pretty large project, with the added complexity that many of the standard library tools like or other c++ standard library datatypes where not allowed. We had to implement our own BST and linkedlist. Any way it is now done. And you can get a full .xml document that it includes an index of all of the words on my blog (before this post). Ok, the xml document isn’t really that interesting. It’s just the only output to show for my hours of work for this school project.

I have added a new website to my list of my Steven Hansen personal online presence: Steven Hansen, Pro. I have added it as a sort of resume.  I hope to add any of my works online or offline to the site.  It has been sort of a debate of whether to publish those sorts of things under the company name or myself.  In the end I will probably do some of both.  Adding it to my personal site gives me a good spot to send possible employers, while adding it to the company site gives it a better flavor for potential clients.