On Coffee (1)
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There’s really nothing worse than coffee that is just too sweet. Sorry, Starbucks, you can keep all your carmel, vanilla, chocomochiato crap. Give me black coffee with cream and I’m set.
::Rants-Mike Guglielmucci and Christian Entertainment (1)
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Some of you may not know who Mike Guglielmucci is. Some of you may. Lisa and I certainly know who his dad is. Lisa and I would often prioritise hearing Danny speak at the various youth conferences and training events we participated in earlier on in our life. He was (and I suspect still is) a wonderful encouragement to keep your feet on the ground, keep honest, keep real, basically an encouragement to be as ...
Social Media Feedback, the Negative and the Positive (1)
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If you are an individual or a company looking to get involved in social media then you need to be prepared to receive positive feedback and negative feedback. In my opinion the negative feedback is more important and in fact I would argue that all the feedback you receive is actually positive. I call it negative feedback because it is portrayed in a critical light, meaning that instead of someone saying how great and amazing ...
Performance Rant (3)
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I've often seen code with performance problems, and watched people struggle to improve it. I've also seen people struggling to achieve optimal performance while writing code. In both cases, I've witnessed lots of folly committed in the name of performance. So here are some of my observations on the subject: If You Haven't Measured It, You Don't Know What You're Doing In performance work, everybody has an instinct about what will help and what won't. ...
“It Seems the Joy of the Lord Isn’t Your Strength” (An iMonk 101 Post) (4)
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Yes, that’s one of the comments I’ve received via e-mail regarding the official iMonk photograph. (And- at least in my experience- it’s always a woman. Why is that? Does maternal instinct want to see baby smile?) I’ve been fighting this battle for quite some time, and I don’t plan to give up. It’s a small thing, but it’s all about what it means to be a human being and what it means to be a ...
Dead babies don’t get A.D.D. (1)
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i just finished reading this MSNBC article: “Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry” and I’ve gotta say, man are we eager to be ignorant. Essentially the article talks about how pockets of populations in the US have had large increases in the number of parents that are getting immunization exemptions. Their argument is that there are known and unknown side-effects to the immunizations - things ranging from allergic reactions and permanent brain damage to possibly ...
On Lyrics (1)
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Q: Why did they call their song “I can ride a bike with no handlebars?” A: Because “I can debug a kernel panic in someone else’s driver with no source information, only assembly code and my knowledge of HowShitWorks(TM),” was too long.
What was that about my head? (1)
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Okay, I really try to keep the politics out, but now they’re smearing my people. In a statement trying to rebut the fact that he owns seven houses worth $13 million, a spokesman for John McCain states that he “… is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type …” This dovetails nicely with the disturbing few seconds of Michael Savagery I caught as I flipped through radio channels in deep Western MD late this afternoon. In ...
Another article on Telecommuting. The Ugly, The Bad and The Good (1)
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Computer World has an article about Telecommuting . So, I thought I’d chip in my inflated $0.02. Telecommuting, doesn’t mean working from home. This is one of the biggest myths, and truths people will realize over time. What makes me such an expert? I’ve been telecommuting for the past 3 years, straight, full time. I’m not talking about moonlighting, and doing part time work for companies who post on craigslist. I’m talking multi million dollar ...
1st Level Politician Killed by Kobold (1)
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Not that I am a huge Obama supporter, but… Hey John McCain. I know you don’t use computers since you are one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation and all that but this remark by one of your henchmen caught my eye: It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility ...
Q&A med Sergey Brin (1)
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Hjalmar har profilerat dig. Hjalmar säger att du vill se den här videon. Det är inte ofta man får se äkta material från personer som Sergey Brin, så passa på. PS Pawlo. Att köpa adwords-reklam när man redan ligger #1 på ett icke kommersiellt kw känns väldigt “vi har för mycket pengar till marknadsföring”. DS.
Who Died And Make The Box King? (1)
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I just can't resist a great rant. This one from Virginia Magaletta who is the CD at Twist Image (my new place of employment) and doesn't like boxes."I'd like to toss my hat into the ring, on the issue of BOXES. What is up with all these boxes on line? What makes a site with BOXES more navigable than one without BOXES? Why do we think that putting a BOX around something and then putting ...
I think I hate George Lucas (1)
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George Lucas is a genius. Let’s get that out of the way right up front. But his genius isn’t about movie making, it’s one of Empire Building. He has created, or at least been a crucial player in, several multi-billion dollar industries that have continued to grow and change the way we think not just about movies but about entertainment and culture generally. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic have both revolutionized their industries. ...
Software Development is a Creative Skill, Building Houses is a Technical One (2)
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Brad Wilson mentioned on the TDD mailing list that the waste and inefficiency within the software industry was akin to the house building industry. I'm sure in some respects he is right, but in a more fundamental way I disagree. An average layman off the street hiring a builder can ask them to build a wall. The average layman can see if the wall isn't straight, the average layman can see when bricks are not ...
What is a Ham? (1)
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By Scott Westerman - W9WSW “It seems to me…” I saw an interesting poster at the recent Duke City Hamfest. It was an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper on which was printed the following: “Echolink is a nail in the coffin of amateur radio!” Juxtapose that with Bob Bruninga’s fascinating article in the September, 2008 QST, entitled Maximizing the Mobile Motorist Mission. As he talks about all the things we can do with an ...
Unholy Army of the Night (2)
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A day for blogging about blogging. Since we’re on the topic.. There seems to be this trend that many of the blogs I used to enjoy following have dramatically dipped in post frequency. Like 3/week to maybe 2/month. I’m sure these people all have long lists of drafts or notes about things they want to blog about.. but, they must just be busy.. or it’s the EVIL Twitter that’s turned the people who can actually ...
NCR - Nightmare Capital Region (1)
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Do you believe that Mumbai is the worst city as far as traffic jams, water logging and crime is concerned? Do you think Bangalore is very chaotic in the peak hours of traffic? Then think again because NCR (The Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon belt) is here to beat both the cities. Gurgaon and Noida were slated to be the upcoming satellite towns which were supposed to elevated the National Capital region to another era of development. ...
Ikea Is Actually a Pretty Good Neighbor (1)
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Over the last year or so there’s been a lot of screaming and hollering about the Ikea that moved in down the street from us. The neighborhood old-schoolers were up in arms about the potential for increased traffic, whether or not Ikea would hire locals, and all manner of other concerns. Now, I’m not sure about their hiring practices, but as far as the traffic goes all of the concerns seem to be unfounded. The ...
