Tech-Ed 2004: Is it an attempt to overthrow the govt?
My good buddy makes the Kyle following comment on my last post:
Read MoreTech-Ed 2004: Don Box and Doug Purdy talk about Connected Systems.
It’s probably too early to tell, but Don Box and Doug Purdy gave what I bet will be the most interesting talk I will hear at Tech-Ed. This was the opening talk for the Connected Systems track which focuses on that hot TLA, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).
Read MoreTech-Ed 2004: New Personal Record
I have a new personal record time for the drive from Los Angeles to San Diego. I believe I made it in 1.5 hours. It was a harrowing drive, but I made it safely and already received some free code generation software. Now to find some food and watch the Alias finale.
Read MoreBush outsourcing campaign activities to India
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According to a new report, the Bush Administration has taken its strong support for outsourcing further than previously thought – opting to move key political operations offshore. India’s Hindustan Times reports that, during a 14 month period from 2002 to 2003 when the Republican Party was playing up patriotism, its fund-raising and vote-seeking campaign was performed in part by two call centers located in India….
VIDEO: Interesting German Car Commercial
A coworker sent me this really neat car commercial. It makes really good use of soothing subtle sound effects as the car drives around the scerene landscape. You may need to turn up your speakers a bit to hear it.
Read MoreMUST SEE: Amazing eye hand coordination
In the old days, the Shaolin monks
demonstrated the strength of their kung-fu with feats of amazing
dexterity. The modern monk has replaced kung-fu with this:
http://eul0000562.eu.verio.net/bmuk_movies/asianarcade.wmv
Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging as Business Tool
I may be the last geek to have posted this, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Read MoreChildless couple told to try sex
Read MoreA German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless - they weren’t having sex.
Gmail Bug Sparks Storage Rumors
Knew it had to be too good to be true. Ignore my previous post.
Read MoreGoogle tests waters with terabyte e-mail limit
When I first heard of this, I thought it was a glitch in gMail. But hot damn! A whole Terabyte. I don’t even have a terabyte at home.
Read MoreComment Graffitti in my Blog
.TEXT has a neat page in the Admin
section that displays all the comments made in your blog. I hadn’t been
monitoring this page so when I finally got around to it, I was quite
surprised at some of the comments made therein. Most of the comments are
from my very nice and intelligent friends, but there are the occasional
entries made by people with a one letter vocabulary (literally). My wife
and I had a good laugh at many of them, but some of them were a bit
disturbing or just plain nonsensical. I ended up deleting a lot of them.
E3 Photos
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to attend the E3 Gaming Conference. It’s basically a candy store for adolescent boys (or adults who cater to the inner adolescent). Two words characterize the expo, sex and videogames. Booth babes were plentiful (in number and cup size), but I was more interested in the games, games, games!
Read MoreDuuude. That's a relief. Pass the chips.
Read MoreReuters - Various reports indicate that young people who use cannabis tend to experience psychological and social problems. However, there is no evidence that marijuana use is directly linked with such problems, according to the results of a study published in The Lancet.
HttpWebRequest and the Expect: 100-continue Header Problem
Apparently I’m not the only one to run into this annoying problem. When using the HttpWebRequest to POST form data using HTTP 1.1, it ALWAYS adds the following HTTP header “Expect: 100-Continue”. Fixing the problem has proved to be quite elusive.
Read MoreYou've been hacked: now what?
And I thought he was talking about my site…
Read MoreGotta have it! Commodore 64 in a Joystick
This press
release announced a
joystick that has a C64 mini console in a Joystick with 30 games
including California Games. I absolutely loved California Games!
Especially hacky-sack and surfing.
An Even Better TimedLock
Wow! After posting my update to the TimedLock class entitled TimedLock Yet Again Revisited…, Ian Griffiths posts this gem which outlines a solution to one of the problem’s with my approach to keeping a stack trace.
Read MoreWhen Soccer Players Attack ... me
This weekend I nearly got into a fight
while playing soccer. To give you perspective, this is a friendly co-ed
game with a group of people I’ve played with for six years. Player ages
range from the early twenties up to fifty something.
TimedLock Yet Again Revisited...
In an earlier
post, I updated the
TimedLock class (first introduced in this
post) to
allow the user to examine the stack trace of the thread that is holding
the lock to an object when the TimedLock fails to obtain a lock on that
object. This assumes that the blocking lock was obtained using the
TimedLock. Ian Griffiths pointed out a few flaws in my implementation
and I promised I would incorporate his feedback and revise the code.
Is Bush Choosing Stupidity?
This interesting
piece on
Slate presents the idea that perhaps Bush chose
“stupidity” early on as an act of rebellion and has stuck with it even
after beginning to get his act together. An excerpt: