Custom Domain Name with Heroku and Godaddy

September 19th 2009

You have your site at Heroku setup and you'd like to add your domain name that you have registered at Godaddy. Follow these steps:

  1. Verify your Heroku account: Heroku > Account > Verify Billing info
  2. Enable custom add on; done through the terminal in your application's root directory:
     heroku addons:add custom_domains
    
  3. Follow the steps here: onticoren.com/2009/06/29/go-daddy-dns-heroku/.
  4. In your Heroku account add the custom domain entered in the previous step.

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Books

April 23rd 2009

I've included this list of books that I've read, and possibly own, not to be pretentious or pedantic but simply to help remind me of what I've read.

Author(s)Title
A. J. JacobsThe Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Agatha ChristieMurder Of Roger Ackroyd
Alberto ManguelA History Of Reading
Allan BloomThe Republic Of Plato: Second Edition
Andrew PyperThe Killing Circle
Art SpiegelmanMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art SpiegelmanMaus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Barb KingsolverPoisonwood Bible
Ben MezrichBringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything
Charles CummingSpanish Game
Charles CummingSpy By Nature
D.H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. LawrenceSons and Lovers
Dan BrownAngels & Demons
Dan BrownThe Da Vinci Code: A Novel
David BodanisE=MC2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Deborah BlumSex On The Brain
Dick FrancisHigh Stakes
Eric KandelIn Search Of Memory
Eric SchlosserFast Food Nation
Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
Frank WarrenPost Secret
George OrwellNineteen Eighty Four
Guy VanderhaegheThe Englishman's Boy
Henry AubinThe Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC
HomerOdyssey
HomerPenguin Classics Iliad Deluxe Edition
Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonThe Rule of Four
Ian RankinBlood Hunt
Ian RankinDoors Open
Ian RankinExit Music
Ian RankinKnots & Crosses
Ian RankinNaming of the Dead
Ian RankinResurrection Men
Ian RankinThe Black Book
J.D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye
James ClavellShogun
James Lee BurkeThe Tin Roof Blowdown
James McNay BrumfieldA Tourist In The Yucatan
James PattersonCross
Jane AustenPride and Prejudice
Jared DiamondGuns Germs And Steel
Jay IngramBarmaids Brain And Other Strange Tales From Science
Jeffrey SachsEnd Of Poverty
John GrishamThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Stewart, The Writers of The Daily ShowThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Joseph HellerCatch-22
Ken FollettHornet Flight
Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner
Kim Stanley RobinsonBLUE MARS
Kim Stanley RobinsonGreen Mars
Kim Stanley RobinsonRed Mars
Laurence BergreenOver the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Laurie R. KingA Letter of Mary
Laurie R. KingA Monstrous Regiment of Women
Laurie R. KingThe Moor
Len DeightonXpd
Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Lynne TrussEats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tollerance Approach to Punctuation
M.G. VassanjiThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Michael CrichtonAndromeda Strain Mm
Michael CrichtonCongo
Michael CrichtonGreat Train Robbery
Michael CrichtonJurassic Park
Michael CrichtonNext
Michael CrichtonPrey
Michael CrichtonThe Terminal Man
Michael KaufmanPossibility Of Dreaming On A Night Without Stars
Michael MooreDude, Where's My Country
Michael MooreStupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation
Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet In Heaven
Naomi KleinNo Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Naomi KleinThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Niccolo MachiavelliPenguin Classics Prince New Edition
Nicholas SparksThe Guardian
Nicholson BakerThe Mezzanine
Norman DoidgeThe Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)
Oliver SacksAn Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver SacksThe Island of the Colour Blind
Onion EditorsThe Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13
Orson Scott CardChildren Of The Mind
Orson Scott CardEnder's Game
Orson Scott CardSpeaker For The Dead
Orson Scott CardXenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quartet
Philip PullmanThe Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials
Philip PullmanThe Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
Philip PullmanThe Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials
PlatoPenguin Classics Last Days Of Socrates
Randy PauschThe Last Lecture
Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion
Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
Richard HolbrookeParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Richard Md RestakThe Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love
Rick AtkinsonAn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Robert HarrisPompeii
Robert James WallerThe Bridges of Madison County
Robert LudlumAmbler Warning
Robert LudlumThe Bancroft Strategy
Romeo DallaireShake Hands with the Devil
Ronald WrightA Scientific Romance
Ronald WrightA Short History of Progress
Ruth RendellAdam and Eve and Pinch Me
Santiago Ramon y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator
Sebastian JungerThe Perfect Storm
Seymour Schulich, Derek DeCloetGet Smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Stephen KingCarrie
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerFreakonomics
Steven PressfieldGates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Sue TownsendThe Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Tom ClancyBear And The Dragon
Tom ClancyCardinal Of The Kremlin
Tom ClancyRainbow Six
Tom ClancyRed Rabbit
V S RamachandranPhantoms In The Brain
Vernor VingeA Fire Upon The Deep
Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. WinsladeMan's Search for Meaning
William R MaplesDead Men Do Tell Tales
Zadie SmithWhite Teeth

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Music

March 14th 2009

A collection of songs from my iTunes play list that I've given 5 out of 5 stars. I don't necessarily think they are the best songs ever, they're simply songs I enjoy listening to.

SongArtistAlbum
40'Franz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand
About A Girl (Unplugged)NirvanaUnplugged in New York
All Apologies (Unplugged)NirvanaUnplugged in New York
Break on ThroughThe DoorsThe Doors
Broken Boy SoldierThe RaconteursBroken Boy Soldiers
CalifornicationRed Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication
Caring Is CreepyThe ShinsOh, Inverted World
Chan ChanBuena Vista Social ClubBuena Vista Social Club
ClocksColdplayA Rush of Blood to the Head
Could You Be LovedBob Marley & The WailersLegend
Dear PrudenceThe BeatlesThe White Album CD1
Dirt Off Your ShoulderJay-ZThe Black Album
ExodusBob Marley & The WailersLegend
GenocideThe OffspringSmash
Get Up Stand UpBob Marley & The WailersLegend
Gold LionYeah Yeah YeahsShow Your Bones
Heart-Shaped BoxNirvanaIn Utero
Here Comes the SunThe BeatlesAbbey Road
Hey Boy Hey GirlThe Chemical BrothersSurrender
Hide And SeekImogen HeapSpeak For Yourself
Hollow Point Sniper HyperboleUSS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker)Welding the C:/ - EP
I AloneLiveThrowing Copper
In My LifeThe BeatlesRubber Soul
JacquelineFranz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand
JammingBob Marley & The WailersLegend
Just A ThoughtGnarls BarkleySt. Elsewhere
Love You ToThe BeatlesRevolver [UK]
Make It Wit ChuQueens Of The Stone AgeEra Vulgaris
Make it All Better Feat Q-TipBlack StarMisc
MegalomaniacIncubusA Crow Left of the Murder
Mr. JonesCounting CrowsAugust and Everything After
My Moon My ManFeistThe Reminder
N.Y. State Of MindNasIllmatic
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)The BeatlesRubber Soul
Oh! DarlingThe BeatlesAbbey Road
OneJohnny CashAmerican III: Solitary Man
One Love/People Get ReadyBob Marley & The WailersLegend
OthersideRed Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication
Paint It BlackThe Rolling StonesAftermath
Pardon MeIncubusMake Yourself
Pardon Me (acoustic)IncubusMake Yourself (bonus disc)
PistolaIncubusA Crow Left of the Murder
Red RainThe White StripesGet Behind Me Satan
Redemption SongBob Marley & The WailersLegend
Road Trippin'Red Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication
Rose RougeSt GermainTourist
Rotten AppleAlice In ChainsJar Of Flies
Ruthless (reprise)Amon TobinChaos Theory
Scarborough Fair/CanticleSimon & GarfunkelSimon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
Sky Is FallingBlackaliciousBlazing Arrow
Smiley FacesGnarls BarkleySt. Elsewhere
Snow ( (Hey Oh))Red Hot Chili PeppersStadium Arcadium Disc 1
Soul Meets BodyDeath Cab For CutiePlans
Stay or LeaveDave Matthews BandSome Devil
Steady, As She GoesThe RaconteursBroken Boy Soldiers
Stir It UpBob Marley & The WailersLegend
Take It As It ComesThe DoorsThe Doors
The Dark Of The MatineeFranz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand
The Kids Aren't AlrightThe OffspringAmericana
The Man Who Sold The WorldNirvanaUnplugged in New York
The NewsJack JohnsonBrushfire Fairytales
Thousand Mile WishFinger ElevenFinger Eleven
Two StepDave Matthews BandCrash
Under My ThumbThe Rolling StonesAftermath
Under My UmbrellaIncubusMorning View
We Never ChangeColdplayParachutes
While My Guitar Gently WeepsThe BeatlesThe White Album CD1

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About

March 13th 2009

Music

A list of some of my favorite songs.

Books

A list of books that i have read: list of books!

Education

  • BSc Honors Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction | University of Toronto (Sept 2008 - ongoing)
  • MSc Medical Science & Neuroscience | University of Toronto (thesis) (Sept 2006 - 2008)
  • BSc Honors Psychology | University of Western Ontario (Sept 2003 - June 2005)
  • BA Psychology | University of Western Ontario (Sept 2000 - 2003)

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