March 2007
17 posts
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Where were these when I was in school?
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell
Hacking John McCain →
John McCain’s people stole this guy’s MySpace template without giving him credit, and stole his bandwidth by hotlinking to his images. Check out how he got them to stop…
Samuel Adams Brewery Tour
On Friday afternoon, we stopped by The Samuel Adams Brewery after class and took the tour. Here’s a little but of what we saw: After the plant tour, it was time for the tasting room: First, we got to try the flagship brew, Samuel Adams Boston Lager. If you haven’t tried this one, you need to. I hadn’t had it in quite a while, and forgot how tasty it is (of course,...
Boston Beer!
I’ve had a chance to sample a few beers while I’m here in Boston. Of course no trip to Beantown would be complete without sampling a few Sam Adams brews (I’m hoping to go on the plant tour after class Friday), but I also had the chance to check out the Beer Works on Canal St. I had two beers there. First, I had a Mad Hops IPA, which I highly recommend. The hop flavor was very...
Jury awards Procter & Gamble $19.25M in Satanism...
It’s about time. Amway distributors have been spreading this idiotic rumor that P&G donates their profits to the Church of Satan for over 25 years now. Being that I grew up/live about 30 minutes from the Amway/Alticor headquarters, I knew a lot of people (mostly from church) that boycotted P&G products for years as a result (some probably still do). The award probably should have...
Off to Boston!
I’m going for some PL/SQL training this week. We won’t actually be staying in the city, but I hope to get into town at night. Hopefully I can post some pictures…
Twilight Princess
It took me a while, since I don’t get a ton of time to play games anymore, but I finally beat Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess last night. I guess I’ll have to work on more productive things now…
formatstrings.com
I’m a .NET programmer by day, and on the rare occasions I need to apply custom formatting to a string, I always forget the syntax and I waste a bunch of time trying to re-learn it all. To my surprise, formatstrings.com was available, so I snatched it up and I am going to start putting together a coherent reference page with examples. If things go well, I may include some other...
Fixing Your Firefox Bookmarks
If you have ever started Firefox and found that it has lost your bookmarks, don’t worry…the solution is simple: Find your Firefox profile. On Win2000/XP, it will be located at C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in a folder called something like [random characters].default. Note #1: if you have multiple profiles, you will see...
DST -- So Far, So Good
It seems like our pointless early switch to Daylight Saving Time has gone pretty smoothly so far. Maybe it’s a bit perverse, but Y2K was such a letdown that I was really hoping for just a little chaos this time.
Hypermiling (or Why I Need to Calm Down Behind the... →