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I AM APPALLED..!

This one is a long time coming.
I’m a news whore. I need news, constantly. CNN, New York Times, NPR, BBC. Local, National, Global, I’m all over it.
In the morning, I have 25-35 minutes to get my NPR fix. NPR is mostly good radio - lotsa news, somewhat liberal, […]

My wife and I don’t have HBO, so we watch the shows on DVD. This lets you get the compressed version of 5 seasons in just a few days.
We ran through the Sopranos in a few weeks, then moved on to Sex and the City. Right now we’re midway through season 4 and […]

John, I’m Only Dancing - David BowieI’m Only Sleeping - BeatlesLeg of Lamb - QOTSAQuick and to the Pointless - QOTSADa Doo Ron Ron - The CrystalsPuddin’ N’ Tain - Alley CatsMary Ann with the Shaky Hand - The Who (Odds & Sods version)

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What I am about to say could have long-lasting, deep repercussions throughout the developer community. I am about to devulge a secret held dear by nearly every VB programmer in the world:
VB COM IS BUTT-EASY!
The task at hand: given 2 identical directories on 2 machines, verify their integrity.
Firstly, I tracked down a program which […]

Big Brother skate mag is no more… Long live Dave Carnie!
The mag was great for a while, but LFP didn’t seem to be able to prevent the brain drain to MTV (if you can consider Steve-O and Pontius ‘Brain’)

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I’ve spent the whole weekend debugging a C++ COM object that: - correctly returns “ABC123-34BGH” in WSH - but returns “TTTTT-TTTTT” in an ASP page.
I asked around and some people thought it was a line in the source which de-allocated the return value almost immediately after creating it. I played with that piece […]

Oh, say can you rock?
There’s trouble in a far off nation,Time to get in love formation.Your love’s more deadly than Saddam.That’s why I gotta drop da bomb!
Yvan eht nioj!Yvan eht nioj!Yvan eht nioj! Eht nioj!
This party is happening,It’s no mirage.So sing it again -
Yvan eht nioj!Y van eht nioj! Y van eht nioj!