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- Holy crap, our company just gave each dev on our team their own iPad in appreciation for our work on the last software release! Awesome! =D 13 hours ago
- Just picked up my new Rebel T2i today...very impressed with it. =) http://bit.ly/9xHJHC 17 hours ago
- I kinda thought this would just be a one-hit-wonder artist, but the La Roux album is really really good: http://www.last.fm/music/La+Roux 2 days ago
- Taco Truck. LOL. http://yfrog.com/0mfdyrj 3 days ago
- Anyone have a suggestion for a *good* Windows desktop feed reader that syncs with Google Reader? (AIR clients are OK too...) 3 days ago
- @sophiestication Uh, yes. Double yes. =) 4 days ago
- iOS4 Google Sync problems? Try this URL to choose calendars (instead of m.google.com/sync): http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect 4 days ago
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos550d/ (Canon EOS 550D = Canon Rebel T2i) 5 days ago
- "[T]the 550D has more in common with the prosumer EOS 7D, and - perhaps even more confusingly - it out-specifies the EOS 50D in many areas." 5 days ago
- Started looking for a new DSLR to replace my stolen 30D; originally wanted the 7D, but the Rebel T2i is almost the same camera for $1k less! 5 days ago
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Firefox 3 / Ubuntu 8.04 – Large Fonts Fix
Update: Here’s a list of more tips for Firefox 3 on Linux, including how to make your bookmarks toolbar text smaller, and remove the down arrows from bookmarks folders! Super Awesome Firefox 3 Tips! (Linux) For those of you seeing strange … Continue reading
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Tagged about:config, firefox, Firefox 3, fix, howto, large fonts, large fonts fix, mozilla, tutorial, ubuntu, ubuntu 8.04
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Thank you, Javascript – The Daily WTF
This is very convenient timing, as I’m just about to work with a JavaScript date parser, however, very unfortunate behavior… ’2008-09-01′ was coming out of that regex as [ '2008-09-01', '2008', '09', '01' ], so no problem there. parseInt(’2008′) == … Continue reading
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Tagged daily wtf, javascript, JavaScript, parseint, Programming, quirks, regex, workarounds
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DJ Q-bert’s Wave Twisters
I can pretty much guarantee that this is the craziest shit you will ever see. Yep.
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Tagged animation, dj q-bert, drum and bass, music, q-bert, Video, wavetwisters, YouTube
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Hack Attack: How to set up a personal home Subversion server
Great article from LifeHacker (and very useful, as I’m just about to set one up myself) about how to set up your own Subversion server: Subversion is open source version control software used primarily by developers that keeps every revision … Continue reading
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Tagged hack atack, howto, Lifehacker, server, Subversion, svn, tutorial
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Super Mario Bros Theme With R/C Car and Bottles
Wow. Just wow.
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Tagged bottles, r/c car, super mario brothers, theme song, YouTube
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Unnecessary Quotation Marks
(Found at photobasement.com) This makes my day. I cannot express strongly enough how much using quotation marks for emphasis pisses me off. It’s right up there with cold ketchup (don’t get me started on that). To my delight, it seems … Continue reading
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Tagged (Other Blogs), fail, funny, Humor, marks, quotation, unnecessary
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Madness: Trapped in Elevator Car 30
Fascinating and creepy article about being trapped in an elevator for 41 hours: The control panel made a beep, and White waited a moment, expecting a voice to give information or instructions, but none came. He pressed the intercom button, … Continue reading
Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS
From Newsweek.com: A mock-up of the Kaplan SAT Prep DS, under development by Aspyr Media Oh, Brain Age: what have you wrought? Later today, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions (a division of Kaplan, which is in turn owned by Newsweek’s … Continue reading
Tagged aspyr media, education, kaplan, nintendo ds, sat prep game, scoop
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Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show Ep. 4 – Pamous Movie Star
This…is awesome. =)
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Tagged gorgeous tiny chicken machine show, gtcms, Humor, mediocre films, YouTube
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Every time you can has…
…God kills a LOLcat. Hehehehehehehe…. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/popculture/a359/zoom/
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Tagged can has, every time you can has, Fascinations, funny, god kills a lolcat, Humor, LOL Pics, lolcat, shopping, t-shirt, thinkgeek
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Channel9 (MSDN): Windows XP on Flash-Based Ultra Low Cost PCs
Great post from Channel9 with video about Windows on ULPCs, like the Asus Eee: How does Windows perform on ultra low cost PCs with less than 2GB of storage? Mark Light and Bohdan Raciborski from the Unlimited Potential Group discuss … Continue reading
Autoblog: RWD Scion tC coming to Formula Drift
Wonderful news from Autoblog for all you Scion tC drivers/fans (like me!): We’ve enjoyed our fair share of front-wheel-drive hijinks in empty parking lots with our right hand firmly grasping the e-brake, but in the end, tail-out antics are always … Continue reading
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Tagged autoblog, Automotive, formula drift, rwd, scion, scion tc
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Better late than never?
Just picked up the v21.0.016 firmware update for my N95-1 now that my LCD has been fixed (thanks Minh!) and am very pleased with the update. Nothing substantial to write home about feature-wise, besides the Flash 3 support for the … Continue reading
Color Differences
This little experiment was inspired by a photo posted from _Neverletmego_, in which she highlighted the differences in color space between Firefox and Safari on the Macintosh. I was inclined to carry out a similar experiment with three Windows browsers, … Continue reading
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Tagged calibration, color, color differences, color management, firefox, flickr, internet explorer, iscc, My Photos, Photography, profile, rgb, safari
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Linkback: "Visual Studio 2008 C# IDE is Slow … Really slow."
Here’s a MSDN forum article that links back to my post about the VS2008 hotfix: I believe there are known issues with VS2008 and web development. This article contains a link to some hotfixes for VS2008 web development. Maybe it’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged (Other Blogs), C#/ASP.NET, editor, hotfix, Linkback, msdn, performacne, Programming, slow, visual studio, visual studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008, vs2008, WordPress
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Multi-Targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects, a Gotcha!
Great post on how to share a solution between VS2008 and VS2005, from stevenharman.net/blog: One of the things I’m most excited about with Visual Studio 2008 is it’s ability to target various versions of the .net framework, a feature known … Continue reading
The Mosaic Communications Universe
From jwz.livejournal.com: Until now, home.mcom.com and all URLs under it just redirected to netscape.com, then redirected a dozen more times before taking you to some AOL portal page. The old URLs that were baked into the toolbar buttons of the … Continue reading
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Tagged (Other Blogs), 1994, home.mcom.com, mosaic, mosaic netscape, mozilla, netscape, old school, old sk00l, portal, snapshot
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