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You’ve Got (Michael) Bay-ed!

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

“Before time began, there was The Cube”…
Wow, what can I say! I mean, I am almost speechless, but I will try to continue. Tonight was a very special night in the Mickelson household. Netflix, my DVD purveyor of choice, sent me the Transformers movie, which I had near the top of my queue. I won’t [...]

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Tags: Movies · Rant

How NOT to Write Read-Only Properties

January 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The other day I spent a good 45 minutes fixing a defect at work. A major portion of the time was spent trying to figure out why an object I was modifying wasn’t keeping a value for one of it’s properties. I threw the debugger into motion, stepping through the code multiple times only to [...]

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Tags: Programming · Rant

Broken .lnk files in Windows XP

November 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Because one year running Windows without a reformat is probably way too long, I decided to clean up my Windows box at work a week ago. I ran a few registry cleaners, I recreated my user profile, uninstalled programs that I do not use, and ran defrag on the filesystem and the pagefile. This actually [...]

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Tags: General · Rant

Get Rid Of All That Junk (Snail) Mail

July 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Ever get fed up with the amount of junk mail that you are receiving? I was. At one point I was receiving at least 2 letter a week from Chase Visa requesting that I sign up for their credit card. What I don’t understand is why, after hundreds of pieces of mail soliciting my business, [...]

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Tags: General · Rant

Powerbook Powerfucked

May 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Well…. I am temporarilly without my Powerbook. You see, I was opening up Automator to try to create a New File action, similar to any other respectable operating system, so that I could ctrl-click on a Finder window and create a New File. As soon as I clicked on the New Automator Action from the [...]

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Tags: Mac · Rant

More Microsoft Annoyances

June 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment

You have to love the Microsoft Office developers who decided that when you copy and paste information into an Office 2003 document, you don’t just copy the text that you wanted into your document, you paste the formatting too. Typeface, size, underline, bold, whatever the text looked like from the source of the copy and [...]

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Who Remembers Freedom?

June 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I have never been a supporter of the Partiot Act, and I was very proud that one of my senators, Russ Feingold, was the only one with the balls to stand up for the basic freedoms granted to us in our constitution. Two days ago the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed amemdments which would allow [...]

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