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Entries from November 2004

Give “W” A Brain

November 30th, 2004 · 3 Comments

Here is an extremely frustrating game. You’ll need sound to hear the quips but be carefull, there is a time limit as I found out while trying to establish a pattern. My high score is 4 and the endings seem to be pretty much the same for 0-4. Good luck!

https://www.typekey.com/ – “TypeKey is a free, [...]

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Tags: Random Linkage

CoolWebSearch Shredder And Anti-Spyware

November 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

If you ever come across and instance of CoolWebSearch, perhaps the most difficult of all spyware programs to uninstall, head over to http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html and pick up CWShredder. I havn’t had an oppertunity to test it out because I never use Internet Exploder as a web browser, but apparently it is the best tool for [...]

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Tags: Random Linkage

Does Hell Exist

November 19th, 2004 · No Comments

Found this interesting theory over at User Friendly.

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Tags: General · Random Linkage

Dragon Optical Illusion

November 17th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Here is a neat optical illusion. It is a Dragon, that when viewed, always appears to be looking at you. The site doesn’t show this exactly, but there is a video which is really cool.

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Tags: General

Virus = Very Yes

November 15th, 2004 · No Comments

This is one of the most hilarious StrongBad Emails yet. StrongBad gets an email virus and decides to scan his computer, only to find out that he has 423,827 viruses. Soon after, his computer displays this lovely error

Flagrant Error
Computer Over
virus=very yes

and then everything in the cartoon goes nuts. Go Check It Out.

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Tags: Random Linkage

Unix Awk Saved My Life!

November 15th, 2004 · No Comments

Well not really… So I was presented with a very tedious task today. Convert a bunch of database schema files into an xml format which I created. The XML file will then be used to help read in the data from a fixed length file into a C# app which will then import certain [...]

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Tags: Programming

Pixies

November 14th, 2004 · No Comments

Just got back from seeing the Pixies in Chicago. They played at the Aragon Theater, which looked like an old mexican town square inside. It reminded me of The The Amigos. The played around 18-20 songs and it was an absolute blast! Stephanie got a pick from on of the members of the band and [...]

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Tags: Music