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The date went very well. I bought a cup of coffee, she bought a cup of tea. We sat and...
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It's the Celebrity Scarves auction! Um. It's for charity, ok. But most of this stuff looks like they couldn't be...
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| 22:43:52 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: adnohr blog |
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It startles me how many major motion pictures succeed in robbing everyone blind financially and intellectually. Where is the mental challenge? Why must we, a seemingly clever society, be forced to liquefy our brains in front of a 50ft. screen? There is a difference between escapism and utter ignorance. I am not talking about mindless comedies that are designed to strip you of your wits. I speak not of Blue Crush or Scorpion King and other films that aren't sure whether they are movies or liverwurst. I speak of movies that are made by very talented filmmakers who treat the audience like idiots and get away with it. I will now proceed to rant about two of this years' summer blockbusters, two films that I enjoyed, two films that I paid money (multiple times) to see. Hell, I even love these films: Spiderman and Signs. These films have two things in common: they both start with 'S' and they all possess one or more aspect that insults the intelligence of humanity. Note: Contains spoilers ...
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Click on the image above for a full file listing of my Halo install directory. In order to get Halo to run correctly on my laptop, I had to first run Halo with the -safemode option in order to tweak the video settings. I navigated to the install directory with my good old standby the dos command prompt. While I was there, I noticed xiph_license.txt as well as ogg.dll and vorbis.dll. Could Halo (distributed by Microsoft Games) be using cool and subversive open source technology? The answer is "Hell yes" aparently. The use of Ogg Vorbis in such a mainstream game from such a big company totally rocks. It's not suprising really, just cool. The Xiph license is BSD-like, so there should be no licensing problems, and MS should not have any issues using it. That's what the BSD license is for. No politics, just get it out there and use it. Of course Microsoft's use of GPL software in Windows Services for Unix is more amusing from an open source at Microsoft point of view. I'd love to know ...
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The name is explanatory. I will be creating a JUnit extension to help us test JSF applications.
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How evil are you?...
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| 21:03:49 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Sorddinham |
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Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist has been made available to help combat comments spam. There's plenty of praise and comments at his post, MT-Blacklist: Stop Spam Now, too. Since I'd already implemented Jay's comment spam modules I've seen firsthand how incredibly effective filtering can be for my site, reducing my comments spam to a trickle. For more of my thoughts on dealing with comments spam with links and tips see my post, Friday Feast #61: Unwanted Comments. (199 words, 8 links)
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I just got off the phone to the Tax Office. I rang them, was on the phone for less than 3 minutes, got exactly the information I needed and was spoken too in a polite and considerate fashion. My guess is the guy had only started the job today....
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| 20:59:18 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Sorddinham |
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Cool. A bunch of our VB.NET sessions have shown up here.
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Kazuo - Man of peaceSponsored by www.life-blood.cjb.net What would your Japanese name be? (male) brought to you by Quizilla
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trance:formation, the band Alex has been playing with this year, finally debuted with a blistering set Saturday night at the...
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This helps sometimes, especially when you are working with unpredictable legacy systems :-) Private Sub Pause(ByVal intSeconds As Inte
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Here is a nice Sub that will execute DTS Packages on your server. nbsp; Check the Event Log to see more information after you execute the code. nbsp; You must also make a reference to the "Microsoft DTS Package" COM library. Private Sub RunPackage(ByVal packageName As
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Comment from http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CsWindowsServiceDesktop.asp#xx597849xx Why the ability for a Windows Service to interact with the GUI in windows is disabled "at first" Almost certainly the reason they left it out is because it should neve
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(Optimizing Software for Intel Centrino Mobile Technology and Intel NetBurst Microarchitecture)
By following a few guidelines provided in this paper, you can significantly improve the performance of your applications targeted to run on Intel NetBurst desktop microarchitecture and Intel Pentium M mobile processors.
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I've been radically unproductive in the past week or so. Feels like crap. If I'd felt driven I probably could have gotten NL working...or at least done something small and cool like adding DnD image support to gnome-blog. But instead I keep getting distracted, talking on IRC, whatever. Time to buckle down and do something :-)
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| 19:06:00 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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This story is about strength and determination. Four years ago, Monica Key lost her son, Scotty, in a violent jetski accident on the Delta. But instead of giving up on life and her family, Monica took action. As ABC7's Elizabeth Bermudez reports in this ABC7 Salute, Monica is now an advocate of watercraft safety and is using her tragedy to prevent other family's from going through her same pain.
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The MSDN site notifies me that MSDN Magazine has published an article on generics, one of the most touted new features of .NET Framework 2.0; among other things, it tells us that even if we can't get a copy of Whidbey, we can still play with generics thanks to Gyro. Of course, a nicer way of getting the real thing is going to the PDC. By the way, the article is not precisely new (as a matter of fact it even has a sequel) I just didn't notice it before, oh well, that's what happens when you don't use the corresponding RSS feed...
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My car, recently, had needed a decongestant in the worst of ways. It was simply being overworked, and it sounded...
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| 18:16:29 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Noopy.ORG |
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Tonight I had someone ask me for help with his HTML. What he was trying to do was design a page with a links list on the left (in a table) and with the main part of the page on the right, except that the main content kept displaying under the table with the links. I haven't used tables in ages, so I suggested that he try a CSS implementation. He thought it was too difficult. He then offered to send me a copy of the HTML editor he was using after I told him I do all my coding by hand in Notepad. I declined. In any case, I don't believe there is any reason to reinvent the wheel when there are other solutions already out there. Currently I'm using the nested float layout from glish.com. There's also Layout-A-Matic which will autogenerate a CSS layout for you.
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I have not written very often because I have had my problems and because I had nothing healthy to say, so I didn't want to dump my headaches on this space because, anyway, everybody has troubles and this is a...
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| 17:48:32 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: proverb |
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Comment spam is suddenly the topic du jour in the blogosphere. I admit that even when suffering from writer's block, a single spam comment can inspire much ranting. While there's plenty of suggestions out there for how to stop comment spam, a lot of them seem like too much for the newbie bloggger to implement. Here's some thoughts and tips I've picked up over the last week as I've looked for my own solution. For newbies, I've also tried to assign a degree of difficulty ranging from 1 (very easy) to 10 (get help from a techie friend) to help evaluate the different methods.
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Joel is a fellow RD who will be covering two of the PDC panels. I will be covering one myself (Client Architecture: The Zen of Data-Driven Applications). The idea behind the panels is interesting: put some authoritative Microsofties with a few hundred geeks, let the geeks fire at will and see if the Microsofties can come alive and complete... To put some order in this potential mare magnum, PDC Bloggers has setup a site where people can submit questions, vote for them and finally review the answers (and, of course, criticize them). Neat.
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"When all was said and done, I needed him. You could say I loved him, but love is only...
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Well tonight was the first official meeting for the GV.NET users group. We had a turn out of about 20 individuals which I didn't think was too bad for starters. I will be holding an additional meeting on Wednesday of this week and hopefully I will see many of the same faces again as well as some new ones. It's great teaching others about the beauty of .NET. I think we can have a very successful year and I am looking forward to it.<img src ="http://weblogs.asp.net/emaino/aggbug/31849.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" />
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| 17:35:00 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: Eric Maino |
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So you know all this railing I've done about the Aitken's Diet and how it's just throwing more calories at...
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| 17:31:30 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: poing |
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Here's an excellent article by Stephanie Mencimer published in the Washington Monthly, about the so-called "crisis" in West Virgina. Turns out not to be much of a crisis after all. One nice quote that pretty much sums it up: The...
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| 17:29:14 October 13, 2003, Monday (PDT) |
Source: livefree |
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After a comment by an early adopter, I fixed the issue of multiple speaker entries in the search form. I'm still working on a decent search by date/time UI, I tried loading all timeslots into a combo box, but somehow it doesn't look right. Any suggestions? Oh, the updated exe is available here, just right click to download and copy it to your device.
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Have you ever heard the phrase "you always want what you dont' have"?...
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