This weekend wasn’t all that bad. Saturday I was stolen away by Iambe and we hit Chapters in Langely where I picked up two National Geographic photography books, How to be a Canadian and Shadow of the Hegemon. Gads books add up fast. Course, the thing I went there looking for, a book on Python […]
Got the chance to try Flight Simulator 2004 on Saturday. It’s pretty sweet, I have to admit. Nice terrain and familiar terrain. You can fly out of just about any airport you want, including Abbotsford or Vancouver, and the city itself is very nicely rendered. It is the “Century of Flight” edition, so you can
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Been playing around with FeedDemon, a windows RSS/news aggregator and have to say I’m quite impressed. Wish there was a Linux version. About the only thing that is missing is to be able to blog to movabltype or the like from within the program. There is support for “blogging tools”, but I assume that it
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Wow. When I read this story from Baghdad Burning I was pretty well shocked. Not surprised, but shocked. Now, I do take it with a grain of salt, as I do pretty much everything I read on this here interweb thingy, but still, even if the numbers are cut in half, or doubled either way….
They’re not Lining Their Pockets… Noo… Read Post »
Well, it looks like the start of the purging of the evil non-microsoft clients from the MSN Messanger network has begun. Didn’t microsoft rally a while back for instant messanger standards? Guess they figured they had enough market share that it was time to lock out everyone else. Not that I’m one for a good
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My todo list from last night, and what I actually got done. Laundry Clean Car Windows Dash Garbage Paperwork Receipts Pay Bills Reconcile Record Pay Email monthlys to SEP Clean kitchen floor Work on ASP project Dinner Read flash manual Backup naked
Fantasic news! James is cancer free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A long and painful road I’m sure, but I’m glad to see that all has come out well. Now we gotta celebrate!
Silverstr redid the main page of his personal domain with a cool javascript hacker thingy. Hard to describe, but it looks cool.
Silverstr says that to be a security expert you have to get your hands dirty. I totally agree. I know not everyone is like me, but I learn by doing. Warning, there is a boring personal story in the next couple of paragraphs that is me simply reiterating the last sentance of the previous paragraph.
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I just wrote a chunk of sexy (or scary) code to lookup the answer a user gave (note it’s actually on one line): $d[0]->[$q->{number}-1]->{answers}-> [$answerlookup{$mydata{$q->{number}}}]->{answer} I’m not sure if I’m more surprised that it compiles or that it appears to actually work. Granted, it’s not as scary as some perl code out there.