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May 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:37 PM

Medical Reviews of "House"

I've been watching "House" this season, and though it's over, I thought you might be interested in a medical perspective on the episodes.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:46 AM

C# vs VC++ 2005

I'm not sure whether "VC++ 2005" is the right name or not, but whatever the next version of VC++ is called (don't get me started on the VS naming schemes...) Chris Sells wrote a post about a review of the new C++ version coming out with Whidbey. In case
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:17 AM

Real Customer Service

I've written about community subjects from time to time, but an internal discussion brought up an interesting experience I had a few years ago. I was on a customer visit at a customer whose identity is thankfully irrelevant to this little story. The local
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Monday, May 30, 2005 2:14 PM

7 Hills of Kirkland

This morning, I went on the 7 Hills of Kirkland ride. I had been planning on riding with a co-worker, but he got scared and decided to crash his bike on Thursday night so that he wouldn't have to go. Okay, that's not what he *claims*, but I'm pretty sure
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Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:51 PM

Word for the day: Hypnopompic

Have you ever had the experience where you wake up in the middle of the night and imagine hearing or seeing something that turns out not to be there? Have you ever felt that you couldn't move when you woke up. The state of transition between sleeping
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Friday, May 27, 2005 6:56 PM

How To Do A Good Performance Investigation

More sage words from Rico... And a followon ...
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Friday, May 27, 2005 5:13 PM

What's wrong with your code?

I've gone through all the examples that I was planning on talking about, so I'm looking for more examples. If you have one in mind, please drop me an email .
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Friday, May 27, 2005 4:51 PM

What's wrong with this code #7 - Discussion

In this edition , I presented a small chunk of code that attempted to hook the signal handlers, so that we could do something smart when the user hits CTRL-C, rather than just rolling over and dying (rolling over optional). But before I discuss the answers,
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:08 PM

Generics and Wildcards

Martin write a post entitled Generics: The Importance of Wildcards He concludes with: Unfortunately, C# will not support wildcards or a similar mechanism. The implementation strategy does not allow the introduction of wildcards (generics are implemented
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Sunday, May 22, 2005 7:07 PM

Revenge of the Sith

I've read a number of entries on Revenge of the Sith. For example, Rory wrote one . There hasn't been that much written on the plot, however, so I thought I'd cover it here. -------------- Padme is pregnant with twins, but she and Anikan wish to keep
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:36 AM

Swimming to Antarctica

If you've read either of Lance Armstrong's books, it's probably not a surprise to you that endurance athletes, to put it nicely, tend towards the thin part of the distribution in terms of normality. Having said that, this woman is crazy. But in the good
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Friday, May 20, 2005 11:24 AM

Review: Audiotrak OPTOPlay

I talked about improving my computer sound volume a while ago. After thinking about it a bit, I decided that rather than just amplify the mediocre sound, I'd upgrade to something better. I came across a few USB sound cards, and after looking at the various
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Friday, May 20, 2005 11:09 AM

What's wrong with this code #7?

This time, I'll present a runnable program. The ConsoleCtrl class is designed to intercept CTRL-C and, for testing purposes, will exit after it gets 10 of them. Or after a little over 27 hours. What's wrong with this code? using System; using System.Threading;
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:31 PM

A test

Lift up your keyboard, turn it over and shake. Yuck.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:49 PM

Geocide

From the Slacker Astronomy extra podcast: How to Destroy the Earth Sample - 7. Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument You will need : a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it... perhaps Mars Method : Criminal, really, that this blindingly
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:35 PM

Media Pessimism

Jim wrote a post entitled Are People Inherently Pessimests? I think the answer is no, most of the people I know I would label as "realists". But it's clear that the view we get is fairly pessimistic. I was initially going to say that it was because of
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Monday, May 09, 2005 11:48 AM

Make your customers the marketing department

I've been reading GapingVoid for a few months now. Hugh has some very interesting insights, and draws great cartoons, though some of them are not safe for work. Yesterday, he wrote a post titled Make your customers the marketing department , with the
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Friday, May 06, 2005 5:25 PM

TopoUSA 5.0 Western Edition

I've been riding a lot of hills recently, getting ready for the 7 Hills of Kirkland on Memorial Day, and I'm getting more used to climbing and less scared of the steeper hills. But I've found that there is a dearth of information about the various hills
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:28 PM

Original Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy Radio Program

Yesterday, I managed to find the original Hitchhiker's radio series in an archive from KCRW , an NPR station station in Santa Barbara. The series consists of 12 half-hour segments, with the full twelve segments covering the the first three books of the
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Monday, May 02, 2005 11:54 AM

C# bugs through MSDN Feedback

Rusty , the C# QA Manager, writes about the fate of bugs reported through MSDN feedback . Please let him know what you think of the process.
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Monday, May 02, 2005 11:10 AM

Hitchhikers Redux

Rory posted an interesting counterpoint to my review. Rory has some good points - I agree that you can't expect a movie to be totally faithful to a book, and I have noticed that there is a distinct correlation between how well somebody liked the book
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