You've Been Haacked For a Year

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I’ve kept a couple of other blogs before, but this is my first with staying power. My blog new year resolutions include being even more irreverent, geeky, rash, and misguided (if even possible). It’s been one year, and I recently passed the 500 post mark without even noticing (I hate missing an opportunity to party).

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HILARIOUS VIDEO: A Modern Day Supermarket Rocky.

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You must watch this video.

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Bought Tickets To Burning Man

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Burning ManMy buddy Kyle and I both purchased tickets to Burning Man today. Still waiting to hear from a few other friends and other burners who might be in attendance. I went with several years ago and am looking forward to my triumphant return. ;)

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New York New York Big City Of Dreams

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Props to any,one who can tell me the song and artist that my subject line refers to.

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Beating CAPTCHA With A Neural Network

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CAPTCHAAs if to punctuate my post entitled Image Based CAPTCHA is Fast Losing it’s Appeal, Casey outlines his .NET code used to beat the CAPTCHA employed by many blogs using a Neural Network approach.

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Predatory Blogging - Blogging Someone Else's Life

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Received this comment on my “Blogging Is Pure Vanity” Post.

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Why Must The "Reply To All" Button Be Right Next To The "Reply" Button?

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Every Friday the company buys lunch. Today we all received an email with the list of choices from a Thai restaurant. I replied with “Orange Chicken”. Soon afterwards one of my coworkers thanks me for letting him know I’m having Orange Chicken. Huh?

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Using Light Bulbs To Signal Build State

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Build Lights Oh yes, this is geeky! Craig Wangdera posted the source code he wrote that lights up physical light bulbs with the status of his build using CruiseControl.NET. For example, the yellow bulb lights up when a build is in progress while a green bulb lights up if the last build was successful. See the full size picture and source here.

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C# .NET Quizzes

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Colin has a nice little quiz about enumeration on his blog. Basically he asks, how would you implement a class to enumerate through all the letters of the alphabet. Below is my “cute” response.

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SQL TIP: Prefixing Stored Procedure With "sp_" Gives Your SP a Bad Name

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Found this interesting article via Hassan Voyeau that details the performance penalty when naming your stored procedure with an sp_ prefix in a database other than the master database.

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MUSIC: My Finger Is On The Button

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If you’re a fan of good music (I mean objectively, not subjectively) I plan to recommend a few songs here and there in this blog. Never mind the fact that if you end up purchasing the songs via my site, I get paid. I give you my word, a vow, that I will never lead you musically astray. I may lead you astray in other ways, but not in music.

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Drag and Drop an RSS (or ATOM) Link Into RSS Bandit

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Given that I’ve written much of the documentation for RSS Bandit on the documentation site and have spent a lot of time in the code making a few contributions here and there, I feel a bit sheepish that I didn’t know about this particular feature.

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A Spot Of Tea

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Being married to a Japanese woman, I’ve cultivated a love of tea. Although Koreans have great tea as well, it doesn’t figure as highly in the culture as it does for the Japanese.

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30 Trips Around The Sun

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Today marks the completion of my thirtieth trip around the sun. And it’s been a scenic ride. Much love and thanks to my lovely wife for putting together a little shindig for me and a few of our closest friends. Great food and drink were consumed and a good time was had by all.

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SQL QUIZ: The Difference Between ISNULL and COALESCE

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What will the last two lines print. Will they be the same?

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Reverse Comment Moderation. Or Better Yet...

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One complaint about rel=”nofollow” is that you just might want to reward people who post related and constructive links in the comments section of your blog.

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rel="willfollowforfood"

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I’m proposing a new attribute. Place rel=”willfollowforfood” in your link and I will index it in exchange for food.

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Why Is rel="nofollow" important?

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There’s a debate going on about how effective the rel=”nofollow” solution really is. Some believe that Google is flattering itself by thinking that the primary motivation for comment spam is Google juice.

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Looking Directly At Me Is Forbidden

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From now on, no person, whether an individual or a body corporate, shall look directly upon my person nor speak of me without my written permission. I was inspired to enact this notice by this tidbit from Raymen Chen.

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It's Official, Monday January 24 To Be The Wost Day Of The Year

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A Dr. at Cardiff University has created a scientific formula to prove that January 24th will be the worst day of the year.

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