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I Suppose The Firebug Developers Should Be Flattered…
I was looking for some IE developer tools (because they generally suck) and came across this at the Microsoft site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848894(VS.85).aspx Wow, that doesn’t look like Firebug or anything does it?? And it won’t even work on IE7. Sigh. Trying … Continue reading
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Annoying Java.Blogs Bug
Hopefully some of you are coming to this page from the daily Java.Blogs update e-mail that shows up in your inbox every night. And maybe someone that maintains the site will see this and figure out why this bug happens. … Continue reading
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This Is The Biggest Load Of Crap
Read this article at the Wall Street Journal. This has got to be one of the biggest loads of crap. I might as well have gone and bought a huge house I couldn’t afford, transfer all my assets to someone … Continue reading
When Voice Recognition Goes Bad — Horribly Bad
I was grocery shopping the other day and wanted to find out what a hothouse tomato is so I spoke the words “hothouse tomatoes” into the Google Mobile App for the iPhone and it returned “penthouse letters”. Not exactly what … Continue reading
What annoys me most about Flash…
Is that it doesn’t pass Alt-D (or any other hotkey for that matter) to the browser. Like most developers, I use hot-keys as much as possible. It slows me down if I have to reach for the mouse all the … Continue reading
You know your anti-virus software is a POS when..
It needs 100MB to run effectively. How does McAfee need 100MB to run? Seriously. I’m not even running the firewall or other tools. This is the biggest resource hog/POS. And let’s not even go there on why the OS needs … Continue reading
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Ternary operators in JSP
Every now and then I come across things I haven’t used before but should have been using. The ternary operator in JSP is one of them. It makes it so much easier to write out some text based on a … Continue reading
Are the Olympic Medals Made in China?
And do they say “Made in China” on the back? I was just thinking that while I watched Michael Phelps get his 7th gold medal today at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. That would be pretty damn funny if they were … Continue reading
Finally Picked Up An iPhone
Most of my friends were surprised I took as long as I did to get an iPhone but I finally pulled the trigger. Well, it was more Myleene that did, but I went along for the ride. I was willing … Continue reading
