Archive for November, 2004

WebThang Tutorials: Highlight Form Elements With CSS and JavaScript

Monday, November 29th, 2004

WebThang Tutorials: Highlight Form Elements With CSS and JavaScript
A nice Form effect.

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Beginner’s Guide to PEAR — PEAR HTML_QuickForm Getting Started Guide

Monday, November 29th, 2004

Beginner’s Guide to PEAR — PEAR HTML_QuickForm Getting Started Guide
Quickform is actually quite nice once you get your head around it.

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Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Man stabbed 2 relatives with carving knives, police say

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

Man stabbed 2 relatives with carving knives, police say
Yay, thanksgiving!! The best part of the article:
Jack Levin, a criminologist, said the stabbing may seem peculiar, but is not rare, especially around the holidays.

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Google UK

Friday, November 26th, 2004

Google UK
Anyone in London the next few days should go to Urs Hoelzle’s talk on Google.
Send a RSVP to ukengineers@google.com.

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Google for Aaron

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

lixlpixel | google position
OK, this is vanity surfing at its prime… I’m 57th place on google when you search for “Aaron”.
Something must be done about this!

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wormus.com - Protest against software patents in Europe

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

wormus.com - Protest against software patents in Europe
Later this week, on November 25th and 26th, the EU Competitiveness Council will convene and soon attempt to formally adopt a proposed “Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions”, commonly referred to as the “software patent directive”. On May 18th, the Council reached political […]

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OOoFf!

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

OOoFf!
Michael Robertson totally cracks me up, but is exactly what the Linux/FLOSS community needs… a good marketing department!

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Gouranga

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

UrbanDictionary.com/gouranga
Today I got a piece of spam that reads:
Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ….
That which brings the highest happiness!!
I didn’t think about it until on IRC a friend of mine announced that he got the same peice of spam and furnished me with the link to the following description.
Gouranga
A word that […]

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Post-Election Round up

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Here are a few links for the conspiracy theorist in us all.
Diebold’s Political Machine
Keith Olbermann’s blog
The Free Press
Terrorist Lockdown
Ralph Nader Calls for Recount
Kerry campaign scrutinizes Ohio
Democrats Blog
Oh, yes… and fuck the south!
If you don’t read any of the above links at least read fuck the south, it’s a rant but it’s as good as they […]

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Fisher FVDC1 CameraCorder

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

The Apple Store (U.S.)
I need to get a camcorder… anyone ever heard of Fisher (that’s not Fisher Price)?
This camera looks pretty cool. I could get this one and get rid of my regular digital camera!

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Powell: Iran’s working on nuclear missiles

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Powell: Iran’s working on nuclear missiles - (United Press International)
/me sees little pictures in his mind of Powell making the case for the Iraq war to the UN General Assembly.
I used to like Powell, but after his stint as Dubya’s lead stooge, I can’t take anything like this serious anymore.
If I were Iran I would […]

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Angels and Demons – The 5 Minute Review

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Even though I have four unopened computer books on my shelf, over the weekend I took the time to read Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” (I keep wanting to write daemons). I probably wouldn’t have bothered if I hadn’t enjoyed the style and pace of “The Da Vinci Code”, but this book was seriously lacking.
The […]

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Conctact information for Aaron Wormus

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

So if you’re surfing though google and you need to contact Aaron Wormus the following is my contact information:
email: firstname@lastname.com
YIM: rented_page
MSN: same-as-yim@hotmail.com
If you can’t figure that out, then I don’t want to hear from you!

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Can anyone say Cronyism?

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

New GOP rules could help DeLay

The change, proposed by Rep. Henry Bonilla, a Texas Republican, would apply only to leaders indicted by a state prosecutor or grand jury. A party leader indicted by a federal court would have to step down at least temporarily. The GOP conference, however, could waive that restriction at any […]

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Virgin Mary sandwich?

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Virgin Mary sandwich?
Ebay pulls the 10-year-old cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary, only to realize that it was a serious auction (meaning big $$ for them). The item was relisted and closed at $99.9 Million.
A pretty good picture on the above link.

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