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Starting Wednesday 3 May 2006 we will get four new episodes of Lost in a row.
Next season they really need to step up the answers to quash those who didn’t like this season as much do to the lack of answers. I personally like them drawing them out, but the public doesn’t. I think we [...]

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I just added another cool plugin/widget. It allows me to add books to a Now Reading list. It doesn’t handle short term items like DVDs and music. It is a very cool plugin and allows you to use your own Amazon Associate ID. I can review and rate a book and all that jazz. Clicking [...]

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I have changed the theme I use here. It is a design originally by Andreas Viklund and ported by Ainslie Johnson, it is called WP-Andreas09 and makes use of WordPress Widgets.
Edit to add: I have now made a few changes to the theme, mostly to the CSS style sheet, to better suit my site and [...]

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We have supposed environmentalist like Ted Kennedy fighting in Congress to block an environmentally friendly wind farm… a wind farm that will save millions of dollars in energy costs all because it might lower property values in Cape Cod a tad. The wind farm is 6 miles from the shore, it would only stick an [...]

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I previously talked about some DVD box sets I wanted, but more then that I would want cash. Cash to get either Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 Upgrade ($499.95) or Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2005 Upgrade ($182.94). A better deal is to find a friend at a school and get a version from [...]

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One of the important things to learn with programming is good database design and implementation. To that end Microsoft has released some videos recently to learn SQL Server. Something I’ll have to keep in mind once I get to that point in learning C#.

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Some jerk, undoubtedly a commie rat bastard (you can never trust a commie or a commie sympathizer), stole one of our tires off our car. Okay, they probably aren’t a commie. Regardless of what they are, they took the hubcap off, then stole the tire and wheel, leaving their floor jack behind under the [...]

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My long time favorite of the DVD Review/News sites is DVDFile. I never could get into DVD Talk, too me it was nothing more then a second rate site that I had to suffer with while DVDFile was essentially down for a short while. DVDFile is perhaps my biggest source of Blu-ray/HD-DVD news that I [...]

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Deitel’s Visual C# 2005 How to Program (2nd Edition) (How to Program) was showing in Figure 7.18 and 7.19 (pages 308 to 309) the difference between passing a variable to a procedure by reference and passing one by value. I had to read it a few times to clearly understand what was going on. To [...]

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I have long wondered why toilet stalls don’t reach closer to the floor. After all, you don’t need that huge space to mop the floor or to allow water to flow to the room’s drain, so cleaning and water flow can’t be reasons. Somebody once said that perhaps it was in case the door got [...]

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Pulse is an upcoming Broadband Internet channel from the Sci-Fi Channel. It will offer older sci-fi channel offerings as well as fresh new content. One of Pulse’s offerings (and perhaps on the Sci-Fi Channel itself, I can’t tell for sure) is a new Battlestar Galactica prequel called Caprica. Taking place around a half century before [...]

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The site’s main page has a Google rank of 4, while the Battlestar Galactica category page has a rank of 7. I would guess specific articles around the site have lower and higher rankings I didn’t bother checking them… yes, I was bored so I looked it the general ranking.

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I fixed the problem with the date not showing the way I wanted to. It seems the theme I am using overrode the setting in WordPress itself. I may change it to the full month name, and may move it, but it will do for now. I hope it makes it easier to tell when [...]

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As I noted in a previous post, I am a strong believer in well commented code. I recently learned of XML comments in C# code to aid in the documentation process. I have seen them in code before, but didn't know what it was for. In short, it uses these XML comments to generate an [...]

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There seems to be a large debate on if the #region/#endregion directives are worth anything. Neither Visual C# 2005 How to Program (2nd Edition) (How to Program), nor Murach's C# (.Net Developer), the two books that I am using to learn C# seem to cover the issue at all.
Most of the complaints seem to deal [...]

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The comment spam is getting out of control! I had over 70 comment spams yesterday alone. So I have installed the Akismet plugin, which in theory should make the job much easier. Odd how all the sudden I am getting tons each day. Before recently I got perhaps 20 to 30 comment spams a week. [...]

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Visual Studio Express was to be free for 1 year from November 7th. Microsoft has had a change of heart, and has made it free forever (story). That link also has information on a .Net interface for Lego Mindstorms (I want that Mindstorms kit so bad... that particular kit I linked is the new NXT [...]

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It seems the University of Tennessee has taken down its pricing information for the Z61m, perhaps they got in trouble for leaking the Z61m too soon, or the sale is simply over. I haven't seen any of the notebook sites update about a change in release dates or anything else.
It does look like the Z61m [...]

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Ari is back home again. The doctor released him. He seemed happy to be home, at the same time it was near bed time, and he was tired. Still, finally not having an IV in him seemed to bring a smile to his face as he could finally walk where he wanted and when he [...]

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As of Sunday, 23 April 2006, 12:48 p.m. EDT, Ari is still in the hospital. He is feeling better, and it looks like he may go home tonight so long as his diarrhea doesn't get too bad. He'll probably have it for a week to ten days, but the problem last night was that it [...]

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