Archive for January, 2006
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
No, this is not a post about technology. It is a post about where I’m going to post my techology-related thoughts. I’ve actually been putting them elsewhere for some time now, I just stopped for a little bit. So until I create a WordPress blog just for my nerdy little ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Tomorrow Mary and I celebrate four years of marriage! It has been so awesome to see Mary grow spiritually, emotionally, and now even physically (babies do that to mommies when theyâre growing inside). Weâve had a lot of exciting things happen in four years of marriage!
Weâve traveled to France and ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Jeff pointed out that my blog is boring when I talk about technical stuff. Mary recently mentioned it too. Sorry, I gave in, I’m not going to do that any more. Some time ago I decided that on this blog–my personal blog–I was only going to post content that my ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
If you’re like me you’ve got like 150 passwords. There’s no way you can remember all those without writing them down. I’ve been using KeePass to remember them all. It’s a free, super-stable, secure, extendable password manager with a really nice user interface. w00t! You can even set it up ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
This has got to be the coolest guitar resource, ever. A list of the top 100 guitar solos of all time, and the TAB to play them! Awesome! I can’t wait to print them off and learn to play them ALL.
What follows is the list of all 100 songs selected, ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
â…The best designs contain the fewest elements necessary to communicate the idea.â Peterson, Bryan L. Design Basics for Creative Results. Cincinnati: HOW Design Books, 2003.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
So I thought I’d add another resolution to my list for this year: I am always walking around thinking âI sure wish I could sing better.â I’ve got a couple of vocal warm up/training CDs, a book, and a DVD but I’m still not getting it. I like my voice ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Project 86 is one of those few bands that have managed to reinvent themselves on nearly every album and yet still keep their long time fans happy. Their newest album, â… And The Rest Will Follow,â is certainly no exception. From dark whispers to 80’s style singing/yelling (yeah, it actually ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Gmail File Space (GSpace) is a Firefox extension that allows you to use your Gmail account for file storage. It works much like the FireFTP extension (or any FTP program for that matter): You just select the file in the left pane, create a âfolderâ in the right pane, ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Today at work I encountered what looks like a very simple problem: get the date for a specific day of last week (i.e. âWhat was last Tuesdays date?â) using VB.NET.
For a human this is a simple task but for a computer it is actually quite complex. Tao and Chris ...
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