April 2005
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A Plethora of Programming
This week I've been rather busy working on a number of projects – mostly in languages that I don't typically use (notably Javascript). As such, I found myself digging around for information more than is typical, and came across some gems that helped me out when I was…
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Get Tough on Criminals
I love this story about Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It offers perhaps my favorite quote ever. When the inmates complained about the lack of coffee, having to wear pink, having to work on chain gangs and perhaps, above all, not being able to smoke, he told them: "This isn't…
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Running up the Score
An article this morning talks about a coach who was suspended for running up the score on the other team. The final score was 55-0. In softball. I'm not sure how to take this. If you're talking a game like soccer (as is referenced in the article) or…
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Do Subsidies Ever Stop?
The government has been subsidizing Amtrak for ages. Jumping in the wayback machine, as of 1997, they had received $13 billion since 1972. It's undoubtedly much higher by now. Charlotte has given the green light to more than one hundred thousand dollars in incentives for a company who…
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Firefox Memory Usage
First, while I do create some software, I am not what should be called a developer. I don't have the experience. With that out of the way, it seems to me that Firefox (1.0.3) is using up a decent amount of memory on my (Windows XP) system. When…
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On Movable Type Plugins
I just read an interesting post about Movable Type and plugins (specifically Workflow). In a nutshell, the argument is that Movable Type is a product – one which costs money – and having to buy add-ons to provide what is perceived as core functionality isn't a good thing….
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Dollars and Sense of Pro Sports
The City of Charlotte gave the NBA expansion Bobcats $300 million for a new arena. No, we didn't hand them a check, but we are building the arena for them and they get to reside in it, operate it and even keep the profits from it. Charlotte is…
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Trend Micro Web Console Problems
Ran into a problem today where a customer was receiving an odd message when they tried to login to the Trend Micro web console for OfficeScan: Your OfficeScan session has timed out. Please log in again. This message in Google didn't turn up much. Rather, it didn't turn…
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A Government by the People
Silly me. I always thought that our government was by the people and for the people. A couple years ago, I wrote to representative Sue Myrick on some issue, and in response received a canned letter saying that she would always vote this way. I don't recall the…
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MT-Moderate and SimpleComments
A number of you have mentioned that you would like to use MT-Moderate, specifically to moderate trackbacks, but are unable to do so because you also use SimpleComments. Because of the way in which I'm making trackbacks moderated, they will still appear in SimpleComments lists of trackbacks. Now,…