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Changing fortunes
Nothing new here. But the visuals are pretty striking to me: The 1990s The 2000s
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I have a Meritline Problem
Its just so hard to resist when you can buy a laser and have it shipped to you from around the world for 0.89. Every day these temptations enter my inbox. How can I be expected to resist? I don’t even know what it means by Banknote checking…
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Hard to love
I am trying to learn Objective C and trying to love it rather than hate it but its not always easy. Lets say you want to concatenate a couple of strings A and B. After some googling I found the solution wasn’t: A + B or even: [A concatenate: B] but rather: [NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@%@”, A,B]…
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How to define Victory
Its not clear anymore how we should define victory in our wars. I think that one prerequisite might be that you need to be able to visit the country without it being unannounced. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/28/AR2010032800828.html
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Job Ended
Last week was my last week on my current contract. It feels good to be free to try out something new. Now I just need to decide what. In the meantime I have read a few good books: Linchpin and Switch. I read the latter on the kindle which I like fine but I am…
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J/K
Why doesn’t every website/blog etc support j/k or similar for up and down like rss readers and gmail do?
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My Fav Parts
… a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart – not out of charity, but because it…
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Recent Switches
Windows Mobile -> iPhone Bloglines -> Google Reader Layered Tech -> 1and1 Kubrick -> Carrington So far am happy with all of these changes.
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Testing
This is just a test to see if the wordpress iPhone thing is setup correctly
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Learning this made me almost as happy as Barack winning
For the Firefox Awesome/Smart Location Bar: If you want to remove an entry from the autocomplete list: 1. Select the entry in the Location bar with the arrow keys or the mouse pointer 2. Press Shift+Delete to remove the item from the list. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+Location+Bar
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?”