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i've played thousands of hours of starcraft, and was thus really excited about the upcoming starcraft 2 release. accordingly, i've played thousands of hours of diablo ii. i had always hoped that blizzard would release a diablo 3, but it seemed so unlikely
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6/29/2008 5:59:27 PM
j has a nintendo wii. yesterday he picked up a new game called rock band. after six hours of gameplay, the guitar controller got broken. it was decided that i would buy a replacement and they would pay me back for it.
ordinarily, i would have simply
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6/29/2008 12:53:33 PM
i just read an article on slashdot; out of firefox users who visited this site, 55.13% are already on v3.0 10 days after its release. by contrast, out of his internet explorer users, only 30.97% are using the latest stable release (7.0). i can't say i'm s
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6/27/2008 1:07:10 PM
i've already heard back on the job interview i had just hours ago. by "heard back", of course, i mean "received an offer". i've been offered a position as an it apps programmer sr at an exempt rate of $79,040 per year (select the yellow block to reveal th
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6/26/2008 3:24:34 PM
i just got off a 45-minute interview call with (major insurance carrier). i think the interview went very well. during some of their questions, obviously it was up to me to provide some proactive technical answers. for example, one of the most technically
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6/26/2008 10:08:04 AM
so i walk up to the building in preparation for my shift. i swipe my badge in eager anticipation and swiftly move my hand to the door handle. suddenly, the beep sounds, the building's way of telling me it recognizes me. however, the release of the magneti
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6/26/2008 8:50:54 AM
eurest is a catering company that runs the cafeteria at a major telecom. when i started a year ago, they had fairly decent service. unfortunately, they've been declining steadily since then. their management is so poor, the closest thing i could find to a
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6/24/2008 3:22:20 PM
i visit several websites on my daily routine; and several additonal sites on a weekly basis. i figured it was time to share them with you. for the most part, i read sites more often if they have more frequently-updated content; so if your blog updates o
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6/24/2008 12:08:00 PM
i have just completed my first pingback client. as you may be aware, battlebot has a method to detect when a new entry is posted. currently, the only subsequent action taken is to notify readers via e-mail if they have requested such notification (that's
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6/24/2008 10:21:42 AM
so, my job in in a precarious situation. currently i'm a contractor / contingent worker / web developer for a major telecom and my contract ends on june 30th. neither of my bosses (see legend) will be here when that occurs; vb1 is on vacation tomorrow thr
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6/23/2008 10:28:06 AM
today i randomly decided to peruse my junk mail folder to see what kind of spam i was getting these days. one caught my eye; here's an excerpt:
i am writing this letter to ask for your favor to assist me to carry out a business venture with my good s
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6/19/2008 1:11:13 PM
for a month or so, i've been battling with kcws, my web/sql server, for free space. i've removed software, deleted logs, and offloaded as much as i could to kcfs, my file server. today i noticed my battlebot daily report didn't come in.
i logged onto k
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6/19/2008 9:36:58 AM
you may remember my recent saga whereas our sso solution killed my webserver. there was one side effect of the upgrade: between postbacks, a page is displayed that "holds" the user's session data. today we went to troubleshoot it.
the problem exists in
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6/17/2008 11:33:46 AM
friday was the end of an extended tribulatory experience with the sso product we use at work. we went in with a full understanding of how to fix the problem, as indicated by the solution we found when we upgraded the test server: uninstall, wipe all trace
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6/16/2008 11:53:54 AM
saturday, j and i helped vb1 replace the siding on part of his house. i'm not sure what was wrong with it, nor how we got suckered into helping him pro bono, but we got the job done. another friend of his stopped by to help - the same guy who hosted the c
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6/16/2008 11:27:39 AM
while posting my previous entry on how to convert a julian date to a datetime object, i noticed my adsense ad was for some rich jerk who wants to teach you how to win ben stein's money. well, okay, not really; he wants to teach you how to get rich quick.
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6/12/2008 2:18:39 PM
recently, i streamlined my function to convert datetime objects to julian dates to refamiliarize myself with the logic in preparations for a reverse function. that is, i had to write a function to convert julian dates to datetimes. the results are as such
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6/12/2008 1:42:48 PM
several months ago, i had to write a function that would return the current date in julian format (i.e. feb 3rd would be julian date 034; the 34th day of the year). i ended up with this:
public shared function juliandate(byval dt as datetime) a
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6/12/2008 12:10:19 PM
i'm still stuck working with our portal team trying to fix the sso problem that we started on a week ago. i've been stuck in meetings and conferences four hours a day this whole time with up to 14 people... and today i found out i'm not even dealing with
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6/10/2008 3:49:13 PM
i propose a radical redesign of the existing traffic and roadway legal system. this would be a complete redesign of non-commercial driving requirements, testing paradigms, and law enforcement. it is a fundementally different approach to the national traff
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6/9/2008 7:29:03 PM
remember how siteminder killed my webserver two posts ago? two days later, i've gotten the siteminder team to admit to the very thing i told them two days ago: they borked my web application.
yesterday was spent convincing them that they were at faul
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6/6/2008 12:16:49 PM
today j and i were scheduled to have drinks with a recruiter at some bar downtown. you'll need to refer to the trip map to appreciate my disdain in its full quality. any locations i don't mention here are excerpted as they were just used as waypoints.
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6/5/2008 6:48:39 PM
we use netegrity siteminder for our sso (single sign-on) needs at a major telecom. unfortunately, a series of mergers, buyouts, and bad communication has resulted in about a dozen different siteminder environments - so while we do have single sign-on in p
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6/4/2008 1:24:25 PM
remember the job worries i posted about last week? i've opened the floodgates and eagerly await the swarm of tech recruiters, hr people, and people who "saw your résumé online".
opening the floodgates, in this case, is figurative for the following ev
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6/2/2008 2:23:14 PM
every day on my morning commute, i observe an event i call fedexodus. between the hours of 8:15 and 8:30 am, a slew of fedex trucks can be observed at this intersection departing the fedex facility at 5010 centennial blvd and proceeding to their various d
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6/2/2008 1:07:34 PM
the headline: first lady speaks at alabama school hit by tornado
my interpretation:
a person was the first adult female to speak at a school in alabama. this unfortunate woman was hit by a tornado, completely oblivious to the meaning of "tornado
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