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yesterday, j and i were having a conversation about something, and it somehow turned into a recommendation for a program called onenote. i already had my personal copy of office 2007 installed, so i opened it up and started poking around inside the applic
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4/29/2008 8:46:33 PM
today our upstairs lab got featured on officesnapshots (permalink). there was only one comment when i checked, but it mimiced the same reaction i get from everyone i've shown the image to: they are amazed. seriously, it's just a $600 projector, $600 in de
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4/28/2008 5:41:42 PM
today i ventured up to pike's peak (map), which has only just begun to be open to the summit for 2008. i stood miles above everyone else, gazing in awe at the spectacle that is my city. half a million loyal minions dropped to their knees to behold me, the
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4/27/2008 3:51:23 PM
remember when i breached my 220,000th mile three weeks ago? today i hit 222,222. that's an average of 106 miles per day; that's not too bad, is it? should i start being concerned that the engine smells like rotten eggs when i climb steep hills? and you ca
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4/27/2008 1:55:23 PM
today i felt a craving for white castle burgers; but the closest white castle is in new mexico. not in the mood for a road trip, j showed me a new burger joint called culver's (map), and they sell something called a butterburger (pictured).
the butte
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4/26/2008 9:23:56 PM
so, browsing through my blog daily report (thank you battlebot), i noticed a sudden slew of incoming referrals from deploymentengineering.com. my first thought was it was some sort of referral spam, but i clicked the link back to the site. it was actually
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4/25/2008 1:35:12 PM
my new 24-port rackmount gigabit switch is installed in my home server rack, the network is back up, and therefore the blog is back up. it may look like a mess, but there is a method to my madness.
the top-left "quad" is router connections. the two y
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4/24/2008 10:19:25 PM
my new d-link 24-port gigabit switch and slide rails arrived today as eagerly anticipated. i went to rack up the switch and realized i only had two cage nuts left, so i spent half an hour trying to google my way into a local hardware store. no results the
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4/24/2008 7:45:23 PM
my awesome new 24-port gigabit switch is currently out for delivery. because ups never checks signatures around here, i expect it to be sitting on the doorstep when i get home. as a result, the blog will go down for an hour or so while i reconfigure and r
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4/24/2008 3:40:28 PM
i finally managed to get removed from this installshield project i got assigned to at work. this explaination may require some background information:
there exist two teams on my department: team über - my team. we write awesome products (such
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4/24/2008 1:37:10 PM
it's been awhile since i talked about the incoming search clicks, so let's do that.
perusing the daily reports i get e-mailed from battlebot, i discovered that people are googling frequently for "state farm" bastards. i found this odd, as i only ment
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4/22/2008 8:06:42 PM
well, okay, i paid via credit card online... but the stuff's in the mail. two orders are eagerly awaited, and shown below. i don't understand why it is that everything i have shipped to me goes through commerce city; i guess it's a major hub for fedex, up
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4/22/2008 7:09:32 PM
some quick and dirty site work was done today that's really helped the site performance:
- reworked the way the archives sidebar section is populated.
- reworked the way the recent referrers and queries sidebar sections are populated.
- offloa
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4/21/2008 9:03:53 PM
yesterday j and i went on a road trip toward durango, mesa verde, and the four corners, but the car started to smell like it was burning a seal or the existing valve seal leak had gotten worse; so we turned around 40 miles away. we ended up a bit southwes
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4/21/2008 12:53:34 PM
within this post i shall summarize the server build that took place last night thru this morning. related posts:
1. it's server upgrade time again - i realized i needed an upgrade due to a drive running out of space. ordered the new server case, hita
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4/19/2008 9:44:24 PM
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4/19/2008 7:15:01 PM
as you can see, the blogs are back up and running without any apparent complications. hive survived the loss of six drives and the replacement of a power supply; and the domain survived the change of the only domain controller's name from hive to kcws.
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4/19/2008 3:55:39 PM
the site will be going down with the next couple hours while i build the new server and move most of the drives (and the pci sata controller) over from the old server.
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4/18/2008 7:28:55 PM
to clarify, this article is in regards to what i call "hippies as in software", not "hippies as in 1967". i've had several people e-mail me asking why i make disparaging remarks against linux enthusiasts, php/mysql/python/ruby developers, open source advo
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4/18/2008 5:10:34 PM
several updates since my last battlebot post on 4/17/08:
added new daily report section: "daily referrers"...
this tells me all the different referrers of the day, disqualifying the hundreds of hits from search engines. it just executes a stored proce
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4/17/2008 11:09:36 PM
i got my final package today containing my new cpu, motherboard, and raptor hard drive. unfortunately, i have to borrow a power supply from j until either (1) i feel like allocating the money to buy my own; or (2) he needs to use it; thus increasing the p
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4/17/2008 10:35:51 PM
i have trouble getting up in the morning. specifically, i have an energy deficiency which prevents me from building the motivation i need to get out of bed and start my day. this energy deficiency has caused an unknown number of "sick days" and late arriv
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4/17/2008 8:25:08 AM
so i looked on newegg and finally realized why my deskstar (shipped same day) didn't arrive with my case and fans. it was shipped from tn, whereas the case and fans were shipped from ca, despite being part of the same order. the 1tb is currently out for d
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4/16/2008 10:56:46 AM
as a reminder, the blogs will be down this weekend for server maintenance / replacement / upgrades.
this is not a review. this is my "oh yay look, i got new stuff" post. there will likely be one or two more before the actual install occurs, and the r
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4/16/2008 1:17:32 AM
i woke up this morning and heard the classic 90's msn slogan, "where do you want to go today?". i sat and pondered the question momentarily, realizing that my recent expeditions across southern colorado have left me wanting more. i just had to go farther
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4/13/2008 12:05:55 AM
remember all that server hardware i just bought yesterday? due to my classic lack of foresight, i needed more. i ordered a new hitachi deskstar 1tb drive with a 32mb cache; but i forgot to verify that i had a sata port available. today i checked and sure
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4/11/2008 10:35:43 PM
remember the installshield project i got stuck with? check this out...
the guy who did the logging previously (we'll call him chingchingchow) was sent by the company to a three-week training course on installshield and installscript, where he got all
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4/11/2008 9:57:03 AM
okay, i've mentioned it before, i hate installshield with a passion that burns like a thousand gonorrheas; but i have to use it for a little while. i was presented recently with the task of converting an integer to a string. simple stuff; just use int.tos
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4/10/2008 4:34:57 PM
sure enough, it's time to upgrade the server again. this time it's getting:
- a new case; 4u, 10x 3.25" bays (ark ipc-4u600)
- another 1tb hitachi deskstar 7200rpm/32mb hdd
- 120mm 80cfm intake fan
- 80mm 80cfm panflo exhaust fan
i expect the
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4/10/2008 3:25:49 PM
i spent a couple hours today working on battlebot. so far i've created servicejob functions on battlebot that will allow it to handle attack detection and searchresult aggregation; and offloaded those responsibilities from the website itself. i noticed th
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4/9/2008 11:36:02 PM
okay, this was a freaking wierd issue; it came up while i was debugging the dev portal for z-index 255.
i had updated the main code file mv4.cs, which contains all the custom classes, collections, namespaces, and methods i use on zi255 (event handler
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4/9/2008 10:52:24 PM
so i finally finished the installshield project i was assigned to a few days ago, and sent it on its merry way. the developer who asked me to do it responded within a few minutes, with a list of other things that need to be done to the installer.
i fir
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4/9/2008 4:20:20 PM
just some notes i took down while laying out plans for battlebot. this thing is gonna be my automated maintenance subsystem, so i think it's important that it fulfills these requirements:
- works well, silently, with no intervention required
- counter
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4/9/2008 3:58:08 PM
at work, one of my projects involves a windows service i wrote. because a windows service doesn't have its own native ui, debugging and communicating with it can be difficult -- i generally use sql and log files. yet the service generally provides an impo
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4/9/2008 8:52:44 AM
what is it these days where everyone feels they need to be the next lance armstrong? where did this sudden mentality come from that bicycling everywhere is the way to get or stay in shape? i suppose the part that bothers me the most is that they actually
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4/8/2008 4:17:27 PM
since i'm between projects at work, i've been getting assigned to random tasks. one of them is to "add install logging to", and "streamline", project convergence, which i mentioned earlier. it's a .net 2.0 winform project, which for some god-awful reason
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4/8/2008 9:19:50 AM
there are many developers out there who have become accustomed to programming in .net 2.0. a good deal of us have upgraded to visual studio 2008. for the most part, i've observed the transition seems to be relatively painless... until i opened a .net 2.0
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4/7/2008 2:04:24 PM
as i have recently discovered windows live photo gallery (herein, "wlpg"), i've been able to stitch together alot of panoramas that failed with autostitch. wlpg works faster and more reliably; to that end, i've been redoing alot of my panoramas.
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4/6/2008 11:05:42 PM
my 1990 mitsubishi eclipse gs surpassed the 220,000 marker yesterday, marking approximately 10,000 miles since i bought it five months ago. at an average of 2,000 miles per month, that isn't too bad, is it? does it become obvious that i love to drive?
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4/6/2008 1:06:37 PM
as a part of my continuing effort to maximize the efficiency and pleasure gained from driving, i have created a standardized system for deciding which lane to be in at an intersection. i've always used a system somewhat along these lines, but i hereby
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4/4/2008 11:10:31 PM
this morning at 8:05, i was proceeding to the garage in preparations for my morning commute. lo and behold, a momentus heap of refuse lay in my path, preventing access to the garage door. someone had moved the weekly trash pile from the side of the hallwa
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