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[OT] Disturbing signs I'm on the wane
The trend continues. People always told me I looked like Mark Messier. He's a hockey star on the New York Rangers.
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[Bookmark] Webref.info
Nice consolidated web development reference site: http://www.webref.info/
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[OT] Geek watches through the ages
The old calculator watch was cool:
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[OT] I'm getting dumber, but more visionary
Last time I took an online IQ test I got 142; now I'm 138. Oh, well. At least I'm a Visionary Philosopher - gotta get some sweet business cards made up: Jon Galloway, Visionary Philosopher. There was no posted time limit on this one, but I tried to hurry - I think I took 10 minutes.
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XML gang sign catching on?
Sam just invented the XML Gang Sign this month:
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ExplorerBar Control
New cool control from Steve McMahon's vbAccelerator: ExplorerBar
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LazyWeb.org - too hard?
Stumbled across this: www.lazyweb.org.
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Interesting discussion on outsourcing
Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT Worker? [Slashdot.org]
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[util] Download Express
Download Express goes on every computer I build. It's a download manager, similar to GetRight, but cheaper. As in free.
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Outbound SMTP Proxy?
The company I'm working at is having to go through each application that sends e-mails and verify compliance with CAN SPAM. One of the requirements is a corporate opt out system that ensures once someone has opted out, they will never get an e-mail from you again.
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[util] AutoBlog
This was posted with a new utility I just wrote, AutoBlog. I got the idea from Raymond Chen's pre-recorded blogs while he was on vacation. Since I've got two kids under the age of 4, I don't always get consistent free time to blog regularly (blame it on the youngsters, they can't defend themselves). I often have to save blog fragments until I get time to flesh them out, which means I then have a pile of posts all at once. I'd rather spread them out a bit, hence this tool.
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Rebol
Now, I'm no Rebol zealot, I've just played with it for a few hours. This is interesting stuff to play with from a developer point of view, though - it kind of challenges your ideas of what a modern development platform can and should do.
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[OT] Hang a star on that one - San Diego Padres Park Opener
Whew! A last minute gift put my brother and me in the 5th row on the first base line at the San Diego Padres Petco Park opener. I've been to one baseball game in the past 10 years, but this game was just phenomenal. The Padres won it in the 10th innning, and both teams played great baseball. From the first pitch to Jimmy Carter to the closing fireworks show, this game was a ton of fun.
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Atomic Clock Webservice?
There doesn't seem to be an "official" time webservice out there. There's a demo one hosted by Altova (makers of XML Spy) here that looks pretty good: http://www.nanonull.com/TimeService/TimeService.asmx. There are several other demo ones out there if you Google timeservice.asmx.
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[Util] Open PLS Playlist in Windows Media Player
[UPDATE: I finally built an installer and added some error handling, so this should be easier to set up and use. Download the setup from http://www.codeplex.com/openplsinwmp.
Some web radio stations (like the super cool SomaFM) only offer PLS playlists, and Windows Media Player doesn't support PLS playlists even though they're about the simplest file imaginable.
I whipped up a simple app (OpenPlsInWMP) that parses the stream url out of a PLS file and shells out to WMP, so if you associate PLS files with OpenPlsInWM it'll seem like Windows Media Player decided to play nice with PLS files. -
VS 2005 CTP - Package Load Failure?
I installed VS 2005 CTP on a Virtual PC image of Windows XP Pro. At the end of the install, I got several "Package Load Failure" error messages:
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Knoppix Linux "Live CD" with Mono?
Knoppix is pretty cool - a Linux fling with no committment, runs completely off a CD (your C:\ won't suspect a thing!).
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[OT] Haze Grey...
...and underway.