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i bought a new camera today, a canon powershot sd1000, and i was struck by how far digital cameras have come.
i remember over a decade ago seeing the large, bulky equipment that was used in analog applications: giant film cameras with equally large e
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8/29/2007 11:26:46 PM
so the (big, fancy, secret) project i work on for the (big, fancy, secret) contract is done. test certified it ready for production and we deploy inside of a week. meanwhile, the dev team has turned our attention toward documentation for the next release.
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8/29/2007 8:49:32 PM
this is "ode to my laser", which i purchased from thinkgeek.
on a night with clear black skies,
above the town an airplane flies;
it looms six miles in the air,
a sight that none would say is rare.
o laser, with your beam so green,
wo
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8/24/2007 11:20:47 PM
slashdot featured an article today about two hacks that successfully unlocked an iphone. no suprise there. one of the hacked phones has been put up for auction on ebay and currently has a highest bid of $12,000,100... you heard right, folks. twelve millio
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8/24/2007 5:22:40 PM
been busy looking around regarding pay-per-post and the complications therein. but it did motivate me to fix a couple things:
- articles now work, so you can see the "what are banlevels?" link from your profile page.
- formatted numbers in the sideb
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8/23/2007 11:03:43 PM
recently, during a google search for "geek humor", i came across a site that linked to a blog whose author was being paid, per post, to blog about some products and services he reviewed. so i was interested and drilled down further.
evidently, there
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8/23/2007 9:58:59 PM
i suppose the thing that caused me to submit an entry about the recent heat wave is that i came home for lunch, turned on a computer, and the lcd readout said 97f. the lcd temp readout initializes within seconds of power; this tells me the ambient tempera
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8/21/2007 9:00:03 PM
so i had played halo 1 awhile and was totally disappointed by the crippleware microsoft turned a once-promising bungie product into. based on my disappointment, i skipped halo 2. now, however, that i learned about the halo 3 beta being over, i kind of wan
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8/20/2007 4:19:01 PM
recently i learned some things while driving a friend's suv. first off, anti-lock brakes just plain suck. i could adapt to the ground clearance, the fact that a small car can hide in the blind spot even when you turn to look at it, the automatic transmiss
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8/20/2007 12:25:41 PM
an engineer, a physicist, and a statistician were moose hunting in northern canada. after a short walk through the marshes they spotted a huge moose 150 metres away. the engineer raised his gun and fired at the moose. a puff of dust showed that the bullet
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8/20/2007 10:12:56 AM
there was this statistics student who, when driving his car, would always accelerate hard before coming to any junction, whizz straight over it , then slow down again once he'd got over it. one day, he took a passenger, who was understandably unnerved by
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8/20/2007 10:10:47 AM
a biologist, a statistician, a mathematician, and a computer scientist are on a photo-safari in africa. they drive out into the savannah in their jeep, stop, and scour the horizon with their binoculars.
the biologist: "look! there's a herd of zebras!
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8/20/2007 10:04:41 AM
i heard this joke years ago, and found it again with minimal googling:
there was once a group of biostatisticians and a group of epidemiologists riding together on a train to joint meetings. all the epidemiologists had tickets, but the biostatisticia
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8/20/2007 10:03:46 AM
so today we went to lenscrafters and j and d pressured me into buying new glasses. not a damn thing wrong with the old ones, but they insist i need to be more stylish.
so i go through the eye tests:
- they make me read letters. okay, i knew that o
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8/18/2007 4:17:05 PM
some of you will recall the compact fridge i was planning to buy. well, i bought one. it wasn't one of the aforementioned models, but it's close enough. i got a pretty decent deal at $125. i've placed it directly to my right, as you can see in the c
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8/17/2007 11:58:34 PM
last time we spoke regarding my intermittent internet connectivity issues through comcast, we were waiting for an lmc escalation to occur from any of the contact line asap customers on my node. lo and behold, i ended up being the one to complain.
i c
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8/17/2007 10:36:20 PM
man, i gotta come up with some better titles; that one sounded almost profane.
so, google has done some serious revamping of their webmasters' tools. used to be all i could see was which pages they had indexed and how many clicks they sent me. hell,
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8/16/2007 9:49:05 PM
so, today i watched a korean movie called "the host ". however, the korean name translates to "monster"... why the name was changed when they did the voiceovers, i couldn't tell you. from what i can tell, it was supposed to be a horror/comedy movie, but i
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8/15/2007 10:36:12 PM
i ordered a sub yesterday from ss subs, a popular sub sandwich restaurant that offers delivery until 2pm. two things about this really bothered me - the first was, who stops delivering at 2pm? the greatest demand for delivered fast food is ~5pm-10pm, exte
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8/15/2007 6:21:07 PM
this thursday i'm planning to pick up a new mini-fridge for the lab; haven't had one since two apartments ago. currently i'm considering the haier 2.7 cu ft compact combo fridge for the low price of what i make in 2.8 hours.
looks like it can hold ne
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8/15/2007 12:10:06 AM
sunday at 3am, i finished some bugfixes and pushed code to test. apparently test was unprepared for it and flew off the handle as a result.
tester lead: "there was a code drop at 3 am last night!"
dev mgr: "so?"
tester lead: "don't you think that
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8/14/2007 12:36:33 PM
last i heard from comcast, i was being considered for contact line asap pending an escalation to lmc. there was to be some deliberation and i was to be contacted within 24-48 hours of thursday 2pm.
48 hours passed, and i called to check. no progress
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8/12/2007 6:09:24 PM
i came across this image from a link at channel9, a popular microsoft-hosted .net programming forum. you can download it here, but be warned the picture measures 4096x4096 pixels.
finally, an image large enough that i could scale it across my eight-f
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8/12/2007 1:42:36 PM
as implied in the title, my 1tb hard drive arrived yesterday and i've finished reassigning drives and moving my files around. haven't quite figured out what the m: drive will be assigned to, but i'm sure i'll come up with something.
for those of you
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8/11/2007 11:02:06 PM
during a standard occupational readiness excercise at kadena, i was tasked by eagle-eye to "infiltrate the heavies side" of the flightline. i was allowed to go in any attire i saw fit, as i was expected to be caught. i was given an ore card, which identif
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8/11/2007 7:31:38 PM
as many of you are aware, japan has one of the hottest street-racing scenes in the world. this is due to a variety of factors as i have witnessed in person: in japan, cars are much more lightweight due to fewer unneccessary safety devices; cops rarely pat
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8/10/2007 11:58:23 PM
during the last few months of my tour at kadena ab, while i was waiting for my discharge to finalize, i was placed as airman in charge of some of the 67amu's side activities; apparently the military has the same policy as big business when it comes to peo
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8/10/2007 11:45:44 PM
during my 1yr stint at tyndall, i was at roll call at my shop. there was a pa announcement "msgt minefeld, msgt minefeld, please report to the chief's office". we went on with our business and briefings, and a few minutes later the announcement repeated w
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8/10/2007 11:31:05 PM
it has been said that a man's stories make him immortal, as they can live on far longer than any one of us ever could. furthermore, i've seen it documented somewhere (albiet probably in a movie) that a person's stories tell a great deal about them, and co
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8/10/2007 10:59:01 PM
stuffs got done today in addition to installing the 1tb hard drive:
- implemented search functionality (look below the video feed in the sidebar)
- corrected position of live video and chat applets on live.damnednice.com
- corrected a bug wher
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8/10/2007 10:18:18 PM
as implied herein, the 1tb drive has arrived. one quickformat later, i started reassigning my drive letters. they go up to m:.
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8/10/2007 10:00:31 PM
this hp flatbed scanner has been hacked to play beethoven's fur elise. play däs video and check it out!
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8/10/2007 11:01:19 AM
need i say more? i ordered a 1tb hdd yesterday to replace two existing 500gb volumes which are both full of "public domain media governed under the fair use act; which appears similar to a television show without actually being a television show".
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8/10/2007 8:20:55 AM
rwhod who art in /etc, well-known be thy port; thy packets come, thy protocol be done,
in user space as it is in kernel. give us this day our daily dump,
and forgive us our bugs as we forgive those who submit pr's against them.
lead us not into addr
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8/8/2007 11:00:25 PM
ugh, i hope that title didn't get anyone thinking the wrong thing. i did some blog work last night and i think you'll like the results. here are the changes i made:
1. launched live.damnednice.com, a site just for the live video and chat. some irc comm
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8/7/2007 7:01:17 AM
as most of us know, mozilla is the organization that created firefox, a popular open-source web browser. at a recent blackhat conference, their director of ecosystem development announced that they could "roll out any critical patches within 10 days". the
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8/7/2007 1:23:41 AM
so i moved the webcam over to \\lefty, a secondary system over to my left. previously, it had been on \\cerebrus, my primary productivity machine; the camera sat atop my right-most monitor and you could see two or three screens with me in the shot. i move
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8/6/2007 3:32:08 AM
a few years and websites ago, i recorded a couple podcasts about synergy and google earth. my podcasting ventures never took off for a variety of reasons:
1. i was using crt monitors, which are notoriously bad for pointing cameras at.
2. my camer
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8/6/2007 2:19:48 AM
there must be a clause somewhere that i missed during my customary thorough examination of the eula... free? professional? maybe it's just because it's beta 2... dunno. but sweet. google "orcas" to find it. dev tools ftw.
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8/5/2007 1:12:50 AM
following up on the saga of the comcast internet connection, yet another comcast technician was sent to my house today.
as some of you will recall, comcast bought adelphia in late 2006. comcast has replaced everything from my network to the backyard
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8/4/2007 6:32:06 PM
so, i had just parked my car and was walking toward the house when a neighbor said "nice car". j hypothesized that the neighbor must have bad eyes, being old, and must have thought it was a lamborghini. so there i was thinking i have a car that may or may
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8/3/2007 1:00:00 AM
it was only a matter of time - we've deployed rampaging kill-bots to iraq. armed with anything from an m-16 assault rifle to a 50 caliber sniper rifle to a freaking rocket launcher, these remote-control ground units will add insult to injury as the iraqis
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8/2/2007 8:27:48 PM
as many of you know, i've been having trouble with my comcast internet connection since comcast bought adelphia sometime in late 2006. this post follows up on my progress, or lack thereof.
yesterday, a comcast technician arrived for a service call an
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