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today i worked some more on the poor man's workflow. i was suprised to find that it actually is possible to build this particular webservice project and run it in debug mode, given enough patience.
i resolved all the dependencies to their assemblies, a
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9/23/2008 6:46:14 PM
for the past week or so, i've been working on adding a feature to a product. this feature must find the primary sms contact number for a given policy. once i figured out the right way to go, i had the query done in a matter of minutes. i had it in the cod
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9/22/2008 6:37:27 PM
so i get this card and message via snail mail today:
dear precash sprint cardholder:
we would like to thank you for selecting precash for your sprint bill pay needs. as one of our special customers, we are offering you an upgrade to the new vision
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9/22/2008 5:12:06 PM
this weekend, during my parts upgrade, we noticed we were having some intermittent connectivity issues through both the cable and dsl. so we rebuilt the network. also, because we were sick of having ips on three different subnets, we moved to a subnet mas
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9/21/2008 9:11:14 PM
my new mobo, hdd, psu, and ram have arrived. as promised, my third pci-express x16 slot has allowed me to run my third radeon x1650 pro, thus enabling monitors #5 and 6.
no more clutter (well, 50% less clutter) when i have 30 windows open. i can span v
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9/20/2008 6:03:17 PM
architecture is the single most important consideration when designing a product. if you don't design it well, it will cause an unknown but generally high number of problems down the road, and your developers will laugh about it with your production suppo
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9/18/2008 6:34:38 PM
as if the $1,000 in computer parts i just ordered weren't enough, i went and bought some toys on thinkgeek:
bluetooth laser virtual keyboard: uses a laser to project the image of a keyboard onto a flat surface. you type on the keyboard and a motion s
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9/17/2008 4:15:50 AM
i am not a morning person. nay, in fact, i'm generally not even alert until i've been awake for six hours. it's sad, really: i go to work and give them four hours of half-assed work, then four hours of good work. then i go home and work on personal projec
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9/17/2008 1:28:23 AM
due to a sort of bank error in j's favor, he was able to repay two of the grovers he borrowed during his job transition. i wasn't expecting my first payoff for another 2-3 weeks, so this was a welcome relief.
for those unfamiliar with deprecated l
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9/15/2008 9:28:52 PM
a mere five months since the 220,000-mile mark, about 66 miles a day. that makes nearly 20,000 miles since i bought the car.
i reiterate my point that i never planned to have the car this long. soon, i'll be going to a local car dealer who i've heard
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9/11/2008 9:50:33 PM
recently, i've been browsing the intertube with internet explorer 8, beta 2. i tried beta 1 several months back, but gave up on it because it didn't work with google maps. because this is a pre-release product and far from final, it's hardly time for a re
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9/8/2008 11:09:37 PM
funny story. two weeks ago, j got a job offer and took it. the first two weeks were to be spent on the east coast, and he had three days to get there. due to the "vacation" he had previously been on, money was tight.
so i took out a payday loan to le
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9/8/2008 6:14:23 PM
while browsing newegg for a replacement power supply, i realized that i'll soon be able to upgrade my motherboard. you may recall that i had to revert from an evga 680i to a bfg 680i board seven months ago, and i lost my third pci-express x16 slot in the
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9/7/2008 6:41:46 PM
remember the file server problem i had a week ago? apparently the 550w psu from kc2 is powerful enough to run the whole rig. this came as a suprise until we realized that kcfs had about 12 drives in it when we tested it with a smaller power supply. so we
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9/7/2008 6:27:04 PM
have you ever noticed what wild tangets you go off on when you start clicking links a few levels deep? for example, i linked from sarah palin all the way over to a website that spells things out with buildings from google maps' sattelite feed. you can cli
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9/6/2008 9:30:52 PM
oh, great... one of my favorite websites in the "weekly" folder, realtimesoft's multi-monitor gallery, has just received what i believe to be its first spam entry in the 10+ years the site has been online.
this spam is in the form of a gallery entry,
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9/6/2008 6:13:31 PM
while scrounging around in my other systems to find memory for my new windows x64 installation, i traded a 2gb dimm for a 1gb dimm in kcfs, my file server. i don't know what happened during the swap, but it fried my 1kw psu.
the system boots with ano
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9/1/2008 10:51:22 PM
four hours ago, i informed you i was beginning an upgrade from windows vista ultimate x86 (32-bit) to windows vista ultimate x64 (64-bit). shortly thereafter, an hour ago, i led you through the aggrivating process of upgrading. now that the upgrade is com
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9/1/2008 6:45:09 PM
like many early adopters, i've had problems with x64 versions of windows. last time, windows pushed all its device driver address space to the end of physical memory space, well above the 4gb line. there were devices installed that couldn't address 64-bit
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9/1/2008 5:01:50 PM
kc1, my primary workstation, currently has windows vista ultimate x86 (32-bit) installed. i'm sick of having 4gb installed and only 2.5gb of it accessible to windows .
this is due to memory consumed by all my devices; i.e. two video cards with 512mb
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9/1/2008 2:48:04 PM
i've been playing with serf, the tool i created that tells me within seconds where i rank for a given query. here are some of the results i found.
i find it interesting that while my pagerank has actually been reduced over the past year, search traff
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