Archive for February, 2006

on Plagiarism

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Copying from a single source is called plagiarism, copying from multiple source is called research

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Pixel Perfect LCDs

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Last Saturday, I splurged and bought myself a 19inch LCD monitor. I liked my old CRT but it was getting old, and taking up a LOT of space so I figured I was well over due for an LCD.
I got the and LG, it had nice reviews, specs and of the LCD monitors on display […]

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Killing 1NF for fun :)

Friday, February 24th, 2006

An client wanted to add an arbitrary ordering to a set of rows which were being displayed in some legacy code, I had this functionality in newer versions of the software that he was running but due to “technical issues” couldn’t upgrade the software at the time.
The correct way to do this would obviously […]

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EarthCore to be the first paid-download Podcast on iTunes

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Scott Sigler, the sci-fi/horror novelist who first revolutionized both podcasting and the publishing worlds with the release of his first free podcast novel has done it again and has put Earthcore back in the spotlight as the first paid-download podcast in the iTunes music store.
The unabridged 15 hour audiobook, published by Conquer the World […]

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The Blog is back! Real as life, twice as colorful and -1 times as Web2.0ish!

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

So after my brief encounter with the extremely web2.0ish Squible theme, my blog has regained its sanity and is back in all it’s colorful glory!
So what do you think? Does it rawk or does it RAWK!!!

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Kit, just shoot the bastards

Friday, February 17th, 2006

This is a 5-minute review of “Whiteout” by Ken Follett, the whole premise is a spoiler so if you don’t want large portions of the story line revealed then stop reading now.
Firstly Ken Follett is one of my favorite authors, his stories are simple, focused and always a good read. I was hooked after reading […]

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Good Source Code quote

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

The syntax looks like what would happen if VB and COBOL had a baby, and it was born retarded.

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Instant Blogging with Performancing

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Performancing for Firefox 1.1.1 | Performancing.com
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.
Thanks to Marcus Whitney’s comment I’ve […]

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In defence of PHP*

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I’m cross posting this from the discussion over at Marco’s blog, where he talks about how the PHP community has failed the PHP project… people love bashing software projects like PHPNuke, having worked with PHPNuke when it was the ONLY peice of software which did what it did, I like pointing out the other side […]

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Excel Statistical Brain Dump

Monday, February 13th, 2006

What I need is a firefox extension which will make a blog entry with links to all of my open tabs. THAT would be great for bloggers who enjoy doing “linkdump” posts.
Anyway, I’ve been up to my neck in Excel’s statistical functions the last couple hours and wanted to jot everything down before I forget […]

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Sound Seeing in Stansted

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

This audio blog post is my first soundseeing tour. Starting when I get off the Ryanair flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Stansted, London.
I’ve done a bit of editing to get rid of the 20 minutes or so that I spent standing in line. My iRiver also doesn’t seem to perform very well while in […]

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Spam of the day

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

At least this spam explains how these guys get my email address.
Greetings in the name of the Lord,
I am Bishop Andrew Wright. Before I contacted you, I fasted and prayed over it. It was through God guidance I was able to contact you.
Right now as I am writing to you I […]

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Brokeback blogpost

Monday, February 6th, 2006

It’s been brokeback everything this week, I forsee there being enough material in the movie to keep the jokes coming for quite some time still.
Especially inspired were anyone with a video camera and any video editing skills. First came Broke Mac Mountain, then Brokeback to the future (very funny), Brokeback Goldmine, Brokeback Fellowship, Top […]

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Wormus.com rocks Alexa

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Related Info for: wormus.com/
I have no idea how this kind of stuff happens, but I clicked on the alexarank button on my very cool firefox toolbar and discovered that for some reason this blog has leaped over 345,000 other sites on the internet to become the most 126,789th most popular site on the internet!

According to […]

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4815162342.com :: View topic - ULTIMATE THEORY [revised, expanded]

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

4815162342.com :: View topic - ULTIMATE THEORY [revised, expanded]

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