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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Bent up truck
I got a rude surprise on my way home from work last night when somebody decided to make a U-turn across my lane. I made a valiant attempt to avoid a collision, but I wasn’t completely successful. I did manage … Continue reading
Posted in Odds 'n Ends
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Charlie helps in the yard
Yesterday was beautiful: calm, sunny, and 80 degrees. I had a few hours of outside work to do, what with rearranging the compost pile and vacuuming dirt out of the pool, and Charlie said he’d come out to help. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Pets
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I can’t serve you ’cause you’re too fat
I’ve ranted a few times over the years about people trying to hold fast food establishments liable for making them fat. I thought that craziness had faded after Super Size Me disappeared from public consciousness. And it mostly has. And … Continue reading
The default is default
Some days I just don’t understand what people are thinking when they write documentation. Yesterday I installed a simple caching DNS server. That was easy enough with Ubuntu, and the thing is up and running. But my experience with these … Continue reading
Posted in Computers
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Take back the desktop!
I know, I’ve dipped into this well before. But this bears repeating. At some point in the 30 years or so that I’ve been working with computers, we’ve lost sight of the most important fact: computers are supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Idiocy, User Interface
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LINQ: I’m a believer
Language-integrated query (LINQ) is a new technology introduced with .NET 3.5. The C# 3.0 language has been extended to support it. LINQ is, in essence, a query language for in-memory data. Think of SQL for your data structures and you … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
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