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examine the intersection to the right: (map): imagine you are approaching this intersection heading east and planning to turn right to drive southbound. however, an unfortunate combination of engineering mistakes prevents you from executing this maneuver
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10/29/2008 10:47:21 PM
have you ever wanted to take an entire codebase as a string, evaluate it on the fly, and run it? ever wanted to type some code into a command line and have it execute for you? what if you could... like this: yeah, that was a screenshot. finally, the funct
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10/29/2008 5:34:45 PM
last site update post was on 10/21; since then:implemented search functionality based on post titles and bodies. unlike mv4's search feature, the mv5 search engine searches for any post whose title or body contains all the words entered. mv4, by contrast,
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10/27/2008 8:02:58 PM
gunnison, co in the background. clickable:
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10/25/2008 11:54:52 PM
having nearly run out of good driving days for 2008, i checked the weather forecast and saw a predicted 60-70f for the weekend. today's road trip was to gunnison (trip map). the map shows 162 miles, but the actual trip was about 175; i've moved the starti
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10/25/2008 11:51:10 PM
i'd like to propose a global reevaluation of how we define a "good driver". let us examine what we are taught as teenagers and in drivers' education. a good driver, by that definition:always obeys the law. always wears a seat belt, never speeds, and does
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10/25/2008 11:01:26 PM
there exists a phenomenon on the intertube that's bothered me for some time. i call this phenomenon "self-linking images" - that is, images that sit within hyperlinks that just link back to the same image. a recent infraction by the windows 7 blog has rea
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10/23/2008 3:53:39 PM
i've made some significant improvements over the past few days since my last site work post, and some may actually prove useful to you:implemented comment system - within the newly-rebranded "post selector", i've nested a second-tier accordion whose panes
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10/21/2008 11:07:44 PM
remember two months ago when i detected the imminent signs of winter approaching? it was finalized 20 minutes ago as the first snow began to fall. boy, did i pick a great time to buy a shiny new sports car. fortunately, my 2005 ford mustang has tcs. that
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10/21/2008 10:54:41 PM
no shiny new sports car would be complete without posting pictures on the internet to make your friends jealous. the deal was i would try to pay it off by september 2009 (at a piddly $1,000 per month, over twice the minimum payments) - but i plan to cash
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10/20/2008 12:28:59 AM
since my last update a week ago, a few assorted improvements have been made to the site:information bar (pictured): when important information needs to be presented to the user in a dynamic fashion, this ie-style information bar will appear. it may be use
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10/19/2008 1:08:01 AM
after a bit more work since yesterday's ui development, the blog is finally to the point that it can take over from the mv3 and mv4 engines. thusly, i have hurled mv5 ui prototype 2 haphazardly into production for all to see. clearly, it is no longer a pr
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10/12/2008 10:38:00 PM
it's pretty much final that mv5 ui prototype 2 will become the final user interface for the blog rewrite.
the prototype is coming along nicely. i took a few hours today to work on it a bit more. it shouldn't be long now before it's ready for a wide bet
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10/12/2008 2:42:16 AM
you may recall the harrassing phone calls i've been getting, claiming that the factory warranty on your vehicle may have expired. i've gotten these calls from 973-328-7372 and a series of other numbers. i've tried to handle this situation a number of diff
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10/10/2008 9:15:55 PM
i've just integrated windows live authentication into the mv5 prototype. unfortunately, due to the way their sso solution is architected, it only works if being called from the actual production url. this can't even be spoofed, as it has to return you to
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10/6/2008 11:38:08 PM
i've been working on the prototype gui for the blog rewrite, which i've been considering since july and building since august. that is, i spent about a month on the namespace and unit tests (though admittedly, most days were only an hour or so). the gui h
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10/6/2008 12:37:43 AM
i know what you're thinking... i'm not a sports car kind of guy. i'm the guy who buys a practical car and doesn't care if it takes 30 seconds to reach 85. lemme explain my thinking, in order of cars i've had:1981 honda civic hatchback si: $500, paid cash.
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10/4/2008 12:46:46 AM
i've been working at a major insurance provider for nearly three months now, swamped under mountains of paperwork and beaurocracy. i've been inundated with meetings, conferences, process documentation, storycard updates, and more meetings. this week, thin
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10/2/2008 8:08:18 PM
antsy for some actual code work, i left work early yesterday to work on the blog. i called in sick today because i wasn't feeling too well, so i went ahead and worked on it today as well. it's sad, really; i'm a software developer and i develop more softw
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10/2/2008 12:08:05 AM
remember the alternator i had installed a month and a half ago? and the other one i had installed ten months ago? well, the newest one just went bad again. so i'm done with this car. saturday, when i get paid, i'm going to the car dealership i mentioned r
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