May 2008
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Should You Use Google's Ajax Libraries API for Hosting?
Thanks to Jesse, I decided to read up on Google's Ajax Libraries API, a "content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries" (their words). In simpler terms, Google will host some of the most common JavaScript libraries for you, such as jQuery,…
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Is the Fix (Unofficially) In on Television "Game" Shows?
A decade-and-a-half ago, the movie Quiz Show gave some of us younger pups (no comments, please) insight into the world of corruption amongst game shows like that we had never seen. It was the story of Charles Van Doren, the pretty boy who was given the answers on…
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Keyshawn Wins Best-Dressed Award (Really)
A couple of weeks ago, Keyshawn Johnson did his second round of broadcasting for the NFL draft, and I mentioned just how bad it was. To be fair, it was a bit better than it was last year. For someone who appears to totally lack the ability to…
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Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Of course, now that I mentioned that we hadn't been to see a show for a while, we see a couple of them in a relatively short period of time. After Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz left us feeling less wicked and more blah,…
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Converting RightFields to CustomFields, Now with SQL Goodness!
Back in December, I put together a script for converting RightFields data to CustomFields. This was mostly for me, but I had a few people request this sort of thing, and I had grown tired of doing it by hand, since I'm inherently lazy. There were two problems…