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Okay...16 straight hours coding. I think I'm done for the day. The sad part? Yea, it was just for fun,...
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| 23:41:10 October 10, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Luminous Bit |
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14 Things You Need to Know About "Kill Bill." 1. It is ludicrous. 2. You need to see this movie. 3. Yes, I will see it with you. 4. To say it is a "little" gruesome is like saying...
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PCWorld.com - Microsoft Gets Serious About Security In this PC World article, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the company will focus on making Windows more secure. The announcement was made at a WorldWide Business Partner Conference. Two things come to mind: 1. Shouldn't this have been a concern all along? 2. This announcement isn't surprising considering the events of the last few months. What bothers me the most (and one of the primary reasons...
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I just got back from finally seeing underworld. The poster made me want to see it. The trailer made me...
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WOW new girl Dinah is definitely the hot chic on the net right now. I talked to her a few times through email and she even offered to call me and talk about getting promoted more on the internet. This...
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Wacko Pat Robertson, not satisfied with his usual lunacy, demanded the State Department be nuked in his latest outburst of dementia. It goes to show the strength of Christian bigotry in this nation that he was not immediately frog-marched...
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SURVIVIOR: PEARL ISLANDS Is anyone watching this season? I'm enjoying it more than I did last season. The boys vs. girls thing didn't do much for me, but watching the utter futility of this year's Morgan tribe is really fun. It's a cross between watching the '62 Mets and the Three Stooges. It was amazing how quickly Morgan fell apart. The footage shown makes it look like they swam ashore and immediately scattered alone to shop in the village. They left their baggage unattended and their shoes were stolen. That first day in the village, the Drake team had the gal who could speak the language and they really made out with provisions, but Osten pushed really hard for Morgan to leave immediately like he was the leader or something. That's screwed them since day 1. They've gotta be asking themselves why they were in such a hurry to get to their deserted island. And when are they going to catch on and get rid of Osten? Sure, the guy's a bodybuilder and has a lot of strength, but he's ...
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(I actually managed to sell my G500 that was still in California while I was in Dubai. I used the Internet to advertise on various used car websites as well as place print classified ads in various ...)
I actually managed to sell my G500 that was still in California while I was in Dubai. I used the Internet to advertise on various used car websites as well as place print classified ads in various SF Bay Area newspapers. I managed to find several interested people, and with the help of Dennis, show them the car and eventually sell it without having to physically be there. I was going to use a car dealer to sell it, but their terms seemed to change and they wanted a much larger commission than I was comfortable paying. Having sold the G500, I have now purchased a new car in Dubai. The entire buying procedure was a little weird, and I won't detail it here, but anyway I have a car now. Here are the details: 2004 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG Exterior: designo Silver Metallic Interior: designo Silver and Anthracite leather two-tone Trim: designo Poplar Anthracite wood Options: Too many to list, more than I wanted Here are some pics:
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I talked to my doctor's office this afternoon and there is some good news. I'm not a full fledged diabetic but I am a pre-diabetic therefor my doctor thinks I should adopt a diabetic's lifestyle as a preventative measure. So...
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(I've been quite busy since the last update to this site in July. I travelled to Bombay one more time, spent three weeks traveling in the US, bought a new car in Dubai, sold my old car in ...)
I've been quite busy since the last update to this site in July. I travelled to Bombay one more time, spent three weeks traveling in the US, bought a new car in Dubai, sold my old car in California (over the Internet!), and have graduated from a point-and-shoot digital camera to a digital SLR. Since most people visit my page to learn about the new gear/gadgets that I've acquired rather than my life, I'll focus on the new toys. :)
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(Well, it's been another long gap between updates to this page. I moved my Radio install to a new machine and it didn't like the fact that volume name had changed. It uses hard coded paths and I ...)
Well, it's been another long gap between updates to this page. I moved my Radio install to a new machine and it didn't like the fact that volume name had changed. It uses hard coded paths and I didn't have the energy to try and find a way to fix something that clearly is a mistake on the part of the developers. Anyway, I finally decided to fix it and I found a <a href="http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$10056">script</a> that does that.
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Factories: current office applications are structured a lot like "factories" (except, perhaps, the spreadsheet). Ideas and Information come in one side, and communication artifacts come out the other side. Perhaps the perfect example of this is the word processor, but presentation applications are pretty strong in the factory model too. The problem is that people rarely come to a word processor / presentation knowing exactly what they want to say. I mean, it happens (esp. to you paper-outlining types, you rare breed you), but its not the norm. Its not that both of these products don't have some features related to brainstorming, organization etc (notably their outline modes)... its just that the overall structure of the app does not promote this. So in the real world we have some great brainstorming tools. Whiteboards are my favorite, but cheap tablets of paper, giant sheets of poster paper, and groups of gathered people are all fantastic for different purposes (and different ...
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| 20:49:00 October 10, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Well, this looks interesting. It seems that this weekend there's some sort of art/design festival going on all around Tokyo (predominantly in Aoyama, it appears) called the Tokyo Designers Block. Not mentioned, according to Robb Satterwaite (of Tokyo Food PAge fame) is the container city: On October 9, a new 39,600m2 "city" comprised of 200 six-foot containers will come to life in the Aomi Area of Odaiba. Featuring container bars, container theaters, container museums and container shops, this innovative exhibition will also feature a music event with sound, design and video art installations. The containers will be conceived, designed and furnished by a variety of artists, young designers and international corporations, and laid out along themed "streets." Something I'll defintely be checking out this weekend.
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Patrick Logan says The skiplist is my favorite datastructure (PDF). Mine too - I've loved it ever since being introduced to it in a third-year algorithms class... (see, you do learn something in school).
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The discussion with Daniel von Fange continues. Basically, his beef with continuations is precisely the same thing I like about them: that they allow you to build web applications as continuous, cohesive, stateful systems rather than a series of tiny, independent, interconnected parts. I think we have to draw a crucial distinction here, between web applications and web content. What Daniel is talking about is effectively content: here's the URL you go to if you want to see so and so's profile. That's great, and very useful, and in fact what the web was designed to do - but it's not an application. At most it's a service: it has a simple, well defined set of inputs and outputs, has minimal user interaction, and can be used from many places. My argument is that this content or service view of the web doesn't scale up to the application level. It's like unix commands - it's nice that you can string together cat and sort and grep to do useful things, and that these provide services ...
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All that stuff about "plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits" is not only wrong, it's hopelessly wrong, and if you're still programming that way, you're not much better than a medical doctor who doesn't believe in germs. Please do not write another line of code until you finish reading this article. Thank you, Joel.
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Two movies I really want to see are Lost in Translation and Kill Bill. I'm going to see if I...
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I just finished listening to .NET Rocks! interview to Scott Guthrie on Whidbey's ASP.NET 2.0, here follows a quick summary (probably full of mistakes and misunderstandings). To keep it short, I've concentrated in the what's not in the how's, why's, how far's or when's. You will be able to drag a SQL Server table and drop it into a page, which will give you a data binded datagrid, mostly through property manipulation, the grid will be sortable, editable and updatable One goal of ASP.NET 2.0 is to reduce the amount of code needed by 70-75%, Scott thinks Whidbey will get very close to that mark Another goal is to simplify administration, ASP.NET 2.0 will offer a rich configuration API along with rich admin tools, in the bottom you will still have good old XML config files We will get Intellisense in config files and in code embedded in web forms (as opposed to code-behind classes) We will get some 40 new controls, including things like a rich treeview and security controls ...
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Hey all. This past month has been kind of hectic. I went and donated three paintings to the channel 12 art auction, which will be on tv this weekend and next. I put their worth at three hundred dollars. We...
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| 18:11:31 October 10, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Addy's World |
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Or at the very least that you should know about. http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=930 Some folks should especially take a look at Classroom Presenter. An MS Research and University of Washington initiative.
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I don't usually talk about specific fibers, but I wanted to explain why I've got the crappy green acrylic yarn...
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The TravelMate C300 from Acer now on their website. Comes with a 1.5GHZ Centrino.
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Factories: current office applications are structured a lot like "factories" (except, perhaps, the spreadsheet). Ideas and Information come in one side, and communication artifacts come out the other side. Perhaps the perfect example of this is the word processor, but presentation applications are pretty strong in the factory model too. The problem is that people rarely come to a word processor / presentation knowing exactly what they want to say. I mean, it happens (esp. to you paper-outlining types, you rare breed you), but its not the norm. Its not that both of these products don't have some features related to brainstorming, organization etc (notably their outline modes)... its just that the overall structure of the app does not promote this. So in the real world we have some great brainstorming tools. Whiteboards are my favorite, but cheap tablets of paper, giant sheets of poster paper, and groups of gathered people are all fantastic for different purposes (and different ...
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| 17:49:00 October 10, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Mary Jo once again gives the inside scoop on what MS is focusing on. For the upcoming months MS will be focused on new patch management technology, XP SP 2 , and enhancing productivity with a new Tablet PC O.S. and new Tablet PC's. So much for the Tablet PC being dead. At least for now it's apparent that MS doesn't think so with a new O.S. on the way for it. And from the number of new Tablet PC designs coming out (if you haven't been watching you should it's centrino power all the way baby..) OEM's haven't given up on it yet (where or where are you Mr. Michael Dell with your Tablet?). Oh and the most recent .NET Show was on the Tablet PC as well. Yep we are sure looking at a dead platform here ;-). More likely that the what we are seeing is the Pocket PC death throes as it gets sucked into phones and slowly fades as smaller and smaller Tablet's come into existance.
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From Einstein Technologies comes the transparent TIP or Transparent Input panel. Written in C# this is a very useful little tool no the confined screen real estate of most Tablet PCs. http://www.einsteinware.com/EinsteinWare/Product.aspx?product_id=TRANSTIP
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It started two weeks ago one Sunday when I felt a sore throat start in the morning. Darn flu season....
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| 17:26:53 October 10, 2003, Friday (PDT) |
Source: Caleb |
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Pam was pleased to learn that Cameron's Diaz face is pockmarked and full of acne. She never liked her no-bra wearing attitude and suspected she may not be "all that hot." Phillip Swann lists who looks better on HDTV and...
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So here we go... Throughout my life I have always found that my demand for certain items in the world of shopping is about 1-2 years ahead of the actual supply of these items. This includes fashion, home decor, practical gadgets etc. One time I found this hideous tank top in a thrift store that was fushia with red trim, and I thought it was just ugly enough to be cool. What did I see the next summer as the style of the season? That's right... fushia and red...together... and everywhere. I have little doubt that there will be a green managerial computer chair craze within a year. Naturally of course, I have already been forced to buy a boring grey chair just to satisfy my comfort needs. Regardless, throughout this week I have been hunting stores far and wide for two items that I need for my new apartment: a microwave stand and curtains for the front window. I need more counter space, and I'm tired of the neighbours looking at me. And, in my giagantic brain, I had a pretty picture of ...
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