Hump Day Blues

February 1st, 2006

I’m in a foul mood today. What good is having a blog if you can’t rant a bit?

To doctor X: We had an appointment at 11am. You called and asked us to change it to 10am. We were your first patient of the day, we came at 10 and you didn’t see [...]

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Delicious Outage Link Dump

December 19th, 2005

Del.icio.us has been down for a while. I use it for my public bookmarks, which are listed on the side of this blog. Here is a post with some recent random things that I would bookmark if I could.

The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts – “The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building” (along [...]

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Language Peeves

November 6th, 2005

Phil Ringnalda grinds his teeth when people say depreciated instead of deprecated. I know how he feels. The one that bothers me is hearing people say orientated instead of oriented, as in “object orientated.”

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Changes to my blog (and feeds)

September 26th, 2005

I’ve made some changes to my blog.
When i started blogging, I didn’t know quite what to expect. Over time, two main topics emerged: PHP and Politics. I’ve decided that the two topics should really be two separate blogs. This blog will continue to focus on PHP, software design, web design, agile methods [...]

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USENET era over

January 27th, 2005

I remember Chuq Von Rospach’s sig on USENET posts from when I first discovered it in 1989. Now, he declares the USENET era is over. Kinda sad.
I stopped using USENET when the AOL newbies flooded it, and when browser software took off and newsreader software did not.

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Happy 20th B-day Corewars

July 15th, 2004

I ran across this blog entry wishing Core Wars a happy 20th Birthday. Its hard to believe that it has been 20 years. I was fascinated by the Scientific American articles when they came out.
Around the time it came out, I was interested in artificial life and evolution. I used [...]

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Hazards of primarily using a cell phone

May 11th, 2004

Well, I’ve done it now. I went out of town for the weekend and left my cell phone charger. I am not sure why I even took it, my phone has good battery life and I can easily get a three day weekend with normal use out of a single charge. Now [...]

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Starting a Blog

April 25th, 2004

Since I am now tracking a dozen squared (144) feeds/blogs on a daily basis in NetNewsWire, I feel like its time that I joined the party with a blog of my own.

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