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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, but not too much so [...]

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 things [...]

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 [...]

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 but [...]

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 [...]