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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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