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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Sunday, November 30)
Donny showed me this time attack. Amazingly Cool 5 mins, the 1 Up Floaters just are added coolness.
View Here Super Mario 3
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(Saturday, November 29)
Skanksgiving..
"Well you are cordialy invited to Leon Phellp's Skanksgiving Day Dinner for ladies under 255 lbs..."..
If only those aboard the Mayflower knew what would become..
We had our annual Boys thanks giving (without the McCarthy wheel of rolls. MC? Where were ya?)
Pictures From Richie can be seen Here
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(Tuesday, November 25)
Final Fantasy XI - Renkei FaQ
Here
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Tom on War
"Tom Cruise is anti-war. �Wars don�t resolve conflict, ideas do,� �The Last Samurai� star told the Montreal Gazette. �You look how history keeps repeating itself.� The paper noted that Cruise stopped short of attacking President Bush, saying, �I want a world without war and a world without insanity.� . . ."
But I will be happy to portray a hero warrior in my new $20 mill film. Come on Tom, Where's Goose when you need him?
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(Sunday, November 23)
KEEP ESPN
We don't have Cox unfortunatly (I would love their HD service sans HD tuner) but this does seem pretty shitty for them to start charging for ESPN. Everyone should read and fight back.. And don't let them start chargind different tiers for HD, that shit will be standard in about 5 years.
KEEP ESPN
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History or da day. Taken from another site.
The Queen Mary � The Grey Ghost
The Queen Mary was one of the biggest and most fabled luxury liners of all time. During WWII, however, her job was to transport not tourists but GIs across the Atlantic. Her wartime service lasted from March 1940 to September 1946, during which time the ship sailed nearly 570,000 miles between Europe and the United States and ferried over 760,000 troops, carrying up to 15,000 soldiers at a time. The most memorable story about the ship, however, is not one of valorous wartime service but of a tragic accident that haunts the ship to this day.
The Queen Mary was dubbed the Grey Ghost for the camouflage gray coat of paint she was given as a troop transport during the war. The ship so successfully evaded German U-boats on her Atlantic crossings that Hitler offered a $250,000 bounty and the Iron Cross to any U-boat captain who could send her to a watery grave.
On October 2, 1942, as the Grey Ghost was making her way to the Scottish port of Gourock, she performed her normal zigzag pattern to confuse any lurking enemy submarines. This time, however, something went wrong. One of her escort ships, the HMS Curacoa, crossed her path and couldn�t get out of the way. The 84,000-ton Queen Mary plowed right through the 4,200-ton Curacoa, slicing the light cruiser in two and sinking her within a matter of minutes. Following her wartime orders, the Queen Mary sailed on without stopping for survivors. Only 101 of the 429 Curacoa crew members managed to cling to wreckage and get picked up by ships alerted by the Queen Mary.
When the Queen Mary reached port, workers discovered that the collision had ripped a large hole in her hull above the water line. Within the lower bow was a more ghastly find�the body of a sailor who had been thrown from the Curacoa into the hull. Astonishingly enough, the man appeared to have survived the collision, only to perish from exposure.
Over 40 years later, when the Queen Mary had moved to its new home as a tourist attraction at Long Beach, CA, John Smith, a carpenter on the ship, was working in the bow when he heard sounds of rushing water and voices. At the time, Smith was unaware of the tragedy that took place in the area of the ship where he was working.
To this day, people visiting the lower bow claim to hear the ghostly sounds of water pouring into the hull, and pounding on the walls, and the screams of a man calling for help and wailing in pain. Some say the noises are just an old ship moaning beneath the strain of her own massive weight. Others claim it is the spirit of a man trapped forever in the belly of the Grey Ghost.
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Google Technology
With the craptastic quality of search results everyone is getting from google since this last update, I really think they may have switched to this:
Google Technology
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kartoo
New Search Engine that is kinda cool and unique:
kartoo
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Me and Andy were emailing back and forth about whay kind of Final Fantasy XI character he wanted to create, I actually said this and even 10 min after I said it I just laugh at the sentence that was written.
"Just don't be a fucking Tartaura. Yes they may be better casters, but they are just so japa-gay."
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Cyan Bane's Hall Of Bouncing Souls
Me and Scott (Geckotails) came up with this to say to the next big black dude that wants to kick your ass and you need to look manly infront of your woman:
"i am gonan hit you so hard, yo mama writes about it in her blog"
Kinda anit-climatic unless you say it outloud... go ahead...
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Google
For anyone who reads this that does not keep up with Search Engine Optimization Strategies, let me give you a breif summary of the last few days events. Google decided to change there search algorithm (the way it decides who shows up on the results when you enter in somthing like 'The Big Beautiful Eric Thompson' The way that they decide who gets into these Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) is they 'crawl; sites periodically and analyze the wording and a TON of other characteristics of your pages and ranks them according to the value of the content and context of these other external factors. Google keeps 13 main "centers" (loose definition) where ysearch results cna come from. One of these 13 changes recently (florida) and another changed within the last day or so. It seems that they have changed and mangled the algorithm alot and alot of webmasters are very mad about it. Basically while I was researching this I came across this post and thought it was really good. Basically, everone is wondering why Google did this and since a lot of people think it hurt the search engine results (ie give you stuff that doesn't hold true to the search term). It is by a person named 'lorenzinho2' and I thought it was kinda neat and shows how much power Search Engines actually have over e-commerce economies:
NOTE: Adwords are the ads that google sells to other sites (ie Adwords etc)
Posted Today on one of my favorite sites Webmasterworld.com by 'lorenzinho2' :
One more theory:
Everything that I have read about Google tells me that they have a clear idea of what they want the Internet to be. That there is a clear connection between the values of Sergey Brin and the way that Google conducts its business. That Google is not content to take a passive role in seeing how best practices on the Web shake out - on the contrary, they feel a responsibility to determine what those best practices are, rewarding sites that do things the right way (in their eyes), and penalizing those that don't.
Could it be that what we are seeing is a calculated gamble to change the behavior of Webmasters / SEO's? Google is at the height of its market dominance at this very moment. As we can see from reading this thread, there are countless Web masters who hang on their every algo tweak. As search is in no way a natural monopoly, there is nowhere to go but down for Google (in % of market terms).
So, as opposed to building an algo that is successful in locating the best sites for given searches, they build an algorithm that rewards sites that are being built and optimized the way Google wants them to be built and optimized. The difference is subtle, but has huge implications.
We seem to agree that its "over" optimized sites that are getting hit the hardest, and that its the SERPS for really competitive keywords that are delivering the least relevant results.
Google is telling us that they could care less about short term, nonesensical SERPS for competitive words. They are gambling that their power is so great at this moment, that Webmasters and SEOs will have no choice but to conform to Google's new rules ASAP.
I would go so far as to say that the public will never even notice (despite the "my fiancee says she will never use google again" posts). I plan to have my site scrubbed for whatever the new guidelines are within a month, because I can't afford not to. The only penalty that Google will see for delivering some ridiculous SERPS in competitive words is a big spike in AdWords $$.
However, anyone who claims that Google is simply out to maximize short term profits is missing the boat. This company feels morally bound to tell us the right way to present information on the Web, and can and will destroy those that ignore their worldview.
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Hey Mr. VJ
You grew up to this. No Bonus. No penalty.
No bonus for telling me where you saw this. How sad for you!
Final Score: 58.5
Damn Spelling..
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(Monday, November 17)
InfoWorld: Gates sets 'seamless computing' vision: November 16, 2003: By : Platforms
lol, Come one, wtf??!? Know your enemy............ HINT: it ain't IBM.
"In a lighter moment, which has become a traditional part of Gates' keynote speech at Comdex, he showed a spoof of The Matrix with Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer cast as Neo and himself as Morpheus.
Some might think The Matrix is an odd choice for Microsoft to parody since the movie is about the human race being enslaved by malevolent cyberintelligence, basically software. Neo, a hacker, joins Morpheus and his group to destroy The Matrix.
In Microsoft's version, The Matrix is a world filled with IT consultants working for IBM Corp. and selling Linux, while the world outside The Matrix is Windows, which 'frees the IT masses,' Gates says in the parody. "
InfoWorld: Gates sets 'seamless computing' vision: November 16, 2003: By : Platforms:
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A husband and wife are getting all snugly in bed.
The passion is heating up, but then the wife stops and says "I don't feel
like it, I just want you to hold me."
The husband says "WHAT??"
The wife explains that he must not be in tune with her emotional needs as a
Woman.
The husband realizes that nothing is going to happen tonight and he might
as well deal with it.
The next day the husband takes her shopping at a big department store.
He walks around and has her try on three very expensive outfits and then
tells his wife, "We'll take all three of them".
Next they go over and get matching shoes worth $200 each.
Finally they go to the Jewelry Department and get diamond earrings.
The wife is so excited (she thinks her husband has flipped out)
She goes for the tennis bracelet.
The husband says "but you don't even play tennis, but OK if you like it
then let's get it."
The wife is jumping up and down so excited she cannot even believe what is
going on.
She says "I am ready to go, lets go to the cash register."
The husband says," No, honey we're not going to BUY all this stuff."
The wife's face goes blank.
"No honey, I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while."
Her face gets red and she is about to explode and then the Husband says
"You must not be in tune with my financial needs as a Man!!!
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(Tuesday, November 11)
The dark side of TiVo
After reading this article I looked back on and figured out that this maybe on the first articles I have seen on Reuters that had no point at all. When I got to the end I wandered why I had just read it and what the point was.
The dark side of TiVo
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(Sunday, November 9)
Newsday.com: 300,000 Iraqis May Be in Mass Graves
Regardless that our president took many liberties and lied to the public about what this man did. Iraq the country is better country now that he is dead. I just wish we coudl send in some badass force with Jack Bauer or somthing to have taken him out. I think Assisnation should be in. I mean technically I could get assinated anytime, what makes Sadaam Hueisen so special that he can't?
Newsday.com: 300,000 Iraqis May Be in Mass Graves
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Richie and Michelle's Wedding
Well one of us is finally married. The domino effect has no begun and Karen Minton at Weather Center 2 predicts a slew of weddings in the next year, including my own. Very Fun Wedding though. Pictures Can be viewed here more to be added as I recieve them.
Peace.
-E
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Tuttar
The web was made for ingenius sites like this (Start with Hoppa Fram) - ADULT:
Tuttar
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