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i was reading chris pirillo's wikipedia page, and learned of a new phenomenon i hadn't previously known about called "the pirillo effect".
the pirillo effect basically states that if you say chris pirillo's name three times within the same blog artic
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9/29/2007 11:12:59 PM
payperpost finally got around to detecting my google pagerank and alexa score, so i now qualify for alot more post opportunities. there were a few on there today for $30-50, but i didn't take them because those specific opportunities required me to buy th
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9/29/2007 10:28:39 PM
hah; i set aurora to my screensaver before i installed these new cards and never actually saw it span all six monitors until just a moment ago. this is what eight feet of aurora looks like.
for the uninitiated, aurora is a screen saver that comes wit
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9/29/2007 7:40:54 PM
some of you will recall my previous entry regarding my enrollment in the windows vista sp1 beta. the plan was to download the first available image, install three of the same video card (to acheive what microsoft calls a "homogenous multi-adapter configur
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9/29/2007 3:55:57 PM
not having a car sucks. i tried to finance one awhile ago, but got turned down because i have a repo on my credit report. they didn't care that i make enough money to pay it off in two months, nor that i make five times what i made when the repo occurred.
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9/29/2007 3:40:41 PM
having given up on comcast ever concluding the year-long saga, i ordered qwest dsl to be installed this friday. their prices are higher and their speeds lower, but they'll function as a stopgap until either comcast fixes their issues, verizon offers fios
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9/24/2007 12:13:23 PM
there are few things in life that annoy me more than the catch-22. so often in life, we get software we have major problems with; but which we cannot remove.
allow me to provide an example. i recently upgraded my webcam to a logitech quickcam orbit m
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9/22/2007 12:02:37 AM
let's get picarded -- via digg
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9/20/2007 8:28:27 PM
"the czar", the largest fusion bomb ever detonated, measured 58 megatons - more than 10 times the amount of tnt used in all of world war 2. this nuke had multiple blast rings, and was so tall it reached into space (205,000 feet).
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9/20/2007 8:11:07 PM
via digg, which linked to the la times: alicia silverstone was announced as planning "to appear in peta television ad" in the nude. nothing pornographic, mind you; but nude nonetheless. but they didn't bother to link to the video of the commercial, so her
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9/20/2007 7:32:07 PM
so i was sitting in my lab and i glanced over to lefty, only to realize its ambient temperature is at 108f. that got me thinking, and i was reminded of the time a pepsi exploded in my car.
imagine, if you will, you've just gotten into a compact car o
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9/20/2007 6:57:41 PM
long ago, on a previous version of the blog whose data is long gone, i blogged about being on the beta for windows codename longhorn and (later) windows vista. when it went rtm, i received a free copy of windows vista ultimate edition rtm build 2600 as a
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9/19/2007 7:22:04 PM
someone in chris pirillo's chat room linked to a student thesis that was apparently written when the student was high. it's riddled with poor grammar, spelling errors, excessive profanity, and strong sexual content. additionally, the pages are all differe
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9/18/2007 11:22:40 PM
cerebrus, my main productivity machine, has been freezing at random once or so a day lately. j had a similar issue with his (identical) asus motherboard, so i guess i'm just kinda hoping the fault lies in the motherboard. so i'm buying a new one.
the
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9/18/2007 9:26:27 PM
via random good stuff:
some of you will notice the new linkbait module at the bottom of the sidebar. it's basically the current iteration of a webring, with a nicer interface. for each impression i provide, i get an impression on someone else's blog.
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9/18/2007 7:53:33 PM
cross-posted from a blog entry i made about five engines ago. original date: 4/12/2006.
in march 2006, i saw some promotional stunt online whereas anyone who watched three of their asp screencasts would receive a free copy of visual studio 2005 stand
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9/17/2007 11:46:30 PM
if a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
if your cursor finds a menu ite
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9/17/2007 7:38:29 PM
i don't know who wrote this, but it wasn't me. funny stuff; enjoy.
i am the very model of a newsgroup personality;
i intersperse obscenity with tedious banality.
addresses i have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted too,
on all the countless new
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9/17/2007 7:31:10 PM
i don't know who wrote this, but it wasn't me. funny stuff.
i am the very model of a usenet individual,
i've information meaningless and ultimately trivial,
i know the basic elements of alien biology,
and all the hidden secrets of the church of
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9/17/2007 7:29:27 PM
i found this piece in a dark corner of my aging repository of text files i don't read very often. it's a revision of a christmas fairy tale which is verbose to the maximum. the original tale's name escapes me, though it hardly matters. i'd google it for y
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9/17/2007 7:22:02 PM
many of you have been around for the chronicles of comcast. this is a synopsis for those of you who don't want to bother with reading through each post in order.
the problem started sometime in december of 2006, around the time that comcast bought ad
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9/16/2007 1:30:05 AM
some of you have been to the live page, others have not; but very few of you have seen this before.
turns out my alphacam wasn't broke as i thought it was. rather, i just needed to plug it into a good computer. so i plugged it into my main system lik
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9/15/2007 8:43:49 AM
as many of you know, i've been thinking of doing videos for some time now. this is my first attempt, thusly labeled "intro post".
doubtlessly, some of you will have a few complaints. my personality hasn't changed much in the past decade, so it pro
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9/13/2007 8:54:45 PM
firefighters lift a car off the ground with a poorly-constructed water tubule routing block and several trucks. i would have posted the video directly, but the only embed code i could find refused to let me link externally.
as you can see, the car
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9/12/2007 5:19:22 PM
my understanding of supply and demand is that if someone demands a product, and someone else supplies that product, the two agree on a reasonable price and a transaction is completed. when this process is broken, however, supply is unavailable and thus th
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9/10/2007 10:22:47 AM
imagine you're driving in a 40mph zone, innocently enough, passing the slower vehicles at 45mph. why their speeds are varying from 30 to 40 you don't quite understand, but you pass them anyway.
you finally work your way up to the front of a pack of v
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9/10/2007 2:13:54 AM
i was lying in bed trying to get to sleep only moments ago. i reached the point where i could tell i had too much energy left for sleep, so i got back up again.
the time between when i go to bed ("bedtime") and when i go to sleep ("sleeptime") is whe
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9/10/2007 1:42:29 AM
via digg, which linked here, this is what happens when you mix a tornado with a forest fire.
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9/10/2007 12:11:42 AM
twitter has been popular over the past year or so in the blogosphere. honestly, i have yet to see the attraction; but people are telling me i should try to be more mainstream so i'll give it a shot.
okay, that wasn't the only reason; it was also
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9/9/2007 9:50:23 PM
someone on channel9 linked to a video of a lexicographer on the subject of dictionary evolution. sure, sounds boring as hell, but it's actually really funny. if you have sixteen minutes, check it out; plus, you may learn something.
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9/8/2007 10:04:01 PM
based on the conversation i had yesterday with the line techs who fix comcast nodes, i figure it'll be months to a year before they figure out what their problem is. thusly, i give up. they can fix it when they get around to it, but i want my credit for t
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9/8/2007 9:11:42 PM
i gave internet explorer 7 an unusually long trial period, and ultimately decided it wasn't for me. why? several reasons:
1. i like a minimal footprint on my open windows. seriously, do you people think i have 8 million pixels on my desktop? well, o
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9/8/2007 3:48:25 PM
on the way home from work yesterday, we saw the comcast vans parked adjacent to node 53. as my progress with the official process had resulted in nil gains, i got out of the truck and walked over to them to set things straight...
...first off, i had
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9/8/2007 1:24:26 PM
you know, it's hard enough to find a wallpaper you like. it's much harder to find a multiple-monitor wallpaper you like, let alone one in the size and aspect ratio you want. most of them are 2560x1024 dual-screeners.
i've been looking for years, tryi
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9/7/2007 9:55:43 PM
to replace the webcam that broke, today i purchased a logitech quickcam orbit mp. $130 on their website, $90 at best buy. i seriously did not expect the store to be cheaper, let alone by fourty bucks.
kinda looks like hal 9000 when you look at it rig
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9/6/2007 9:27:31 PM
everyone who's anyone in the industry knows what seo is and probably a few basic strategies at optimization. very few, on the other hand, know about fancy things like dynamically-generated meta tags or getting google to crawl a site six times a day. even
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9/5/2007 11:28:22 PM
this entry has been temporarily disabled until smorty decides they're going to detect my entries.
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9/5/2007 12:40:22 PM
lots of us have old computers that sit around collecting dust, or possibly even plugged in and running, "just in case". lots of us have comcast and are thus aware of the unreliable nature of comcast. when you fall into both categories, i suggest you take
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9/4/2007 10:10:51 PM
let's face it: you go through untold hours implementing the look and feel of your home - from the window shades to the wall color to the knick-knack in the corner cubby. why, then, do people stop decorating at the door?
astute wanderers will surely n
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9/4/2007 9:46:12 PM
today at work i was asked about the lack of "cute pictures" in a technical document i wrote regarding the planned creation of the next phase of the (big, fancy, secret) project i work on. specifically, the boss wanted visio flowcharts and screenshots of s
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9/4/2007 9:23:24 PM
some of you will recall on 8.23.07 i blogged about the possibility of adding paid advertising to the blog through payperpost. six business days and an e-mail later, i was approved. i'm not sure if i'm allowed to disclose how much i get for a post. needles
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9/4/2007 7:50:39 PM
i handed in a design document for the next release of the (big, secret, fancy) project i'm working on. the boss wanted to know why there were no "cute pictures", meaning visio flowcharts. the answer was simply that based on the previous release's document
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9/4/2007 1:00:36 PM
in my younger years, i used to drive impulsively; which is to say, more impulsively. one day i was driving around a suburb of my hometown when i came across a dirt road i hadn't traveled upon. naturally, my curiosity got the best of me and i turned onto t
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9/4/2007 12:45:47 PM
some of you have been around long enough to remember a few codebases ago when i blogged about my experiences with windows vista rtm. i installed it for about two weeks before reverting to windows xp sp2 due to performance issues.
specifically, i comp
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9/3/2007 8:20:15 PM
my blog got rejected from a paid blogging service due to an error on the site. upon inspection, i found two. they were both the same bug in two different places.
when programatically creating ajax links (the ones you see with two sets of underlines),
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9/3/2007 7:39:39 PM
here's a trick i found to create a sql connectionstring quickly and easily. beginning developers may find this useful.
1. create a new text file with a udl extension (i.e. sql.udl).
2. right-click on the file and click "properties".
3. on the "pr
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9/3/2007 1:36:23 PM
in addition to my commentary in my previous post about waterworld, i have a variety of ideas to make the park operation run more smoothly. as this is technically a different topic and there was too much content for one entry, i split the waterworld conten
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9/3/2007 12:53:31 PM
d wanted to take her kids to waterworld for one of their birthdays yesterday. the complication, of course, arose when she realized there were two parents on the trip and five kids. keeping track of kids is difficult enough when you have a nice, evenly-div
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