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April 2006 - Posts

Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:52 PM

My weirdest bugfix

Last week I fixed a bug by adding a splash screen to DVD Maker. Well, I'm not sure you can really call it a splash screen, since it's only 10x10 and it only shows up off-screen, but it's still a splash screen, at least in concept. The bug was related
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:22 PM

Of Personas and Men

(with all due apologies to John Steinbeck, and noting that my mother would be happy that I knew the author without having to look it up. (though I did check to be sure)). Robert (who gets no special "use my last name" treatment here) wrote a post entitled
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Monday, April 24, 2006 5:58 PM

Sick

I'm sick, and, as a courtesy to my co-workers, I decided to stay at home. A courtesy, I will note, that is not always extended. I started getting a scratchy throat on Friday, and tried my usual aggressive avoidance. I mixed and poured concrete Saturday,
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Friday, April 21, 2006 12:51 PM

50 worst albums ever...

Q Magazine released a list of the 50 worst albums ever. 1. Duran Duran - Thank You 2. Spice Girls - All Their Solo Albums! 3. Various - Urban Renewal: The Songs Of Phil Collins 4. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music 5. Billy Idol - Cyberpunk 6. Naomi Campbell
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Friday, April 21, 2006 12:43 PM

Nice post on group riding skills...

If you ride in a group, you've probably had the experience of riding with people who don't know the etiquette of a group ride. Or maybe you've been that person who didn't know the etiquette. Either way, you might want to read: Unwritten rules of a group
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Friday, April 21, 2006 9:37 AM

C# Express pricing announced / Cool C# stuff

When C# Express was announced last fall, it was promotionally discounted as free for a year. The permanent pricing has now been announced. Starting November 7th, 2006, the price will now be $0. Yes, the discount is now permanent. Go read Dan's post ,
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:53 PM

C# Trivia Quiz Part B - Answers

Some nice answers in the comments to the quiz . I'll touch on some of them. Probably. I think I'll put all the remaining questions into a jumbo part 3. Language Details 1) Java has a >>> operator. C# doesn't. Why? Java needs that weird operator
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Friday, April 14, 2006 3:14 PM

C# Trivia Quiz Part B

Nine more innane and largely irrelevant questions. I'm going to leave comments open so you can put forth your own answers. Language Details 1) Java has a >>> operator. C# doesn't. Why? 2) When can a readonly field be assigned to? C# and the Runtime
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:02 PM

Life sized mousetrap game

In San Francisco... Life sized mousetrap game
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:27 PM

A story from my childhood...

I played soccer through much of my childhood, back when children were still allowed to participate in sports that had seasons. I played club soccer in the fall through middle school, and then in high school also played school soccer in the spring. I think
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:55 AM

Fegh Maha

Fegh Maha is: 1) A little know Morocan tennis player. 2) An album from Australian comedy trio Tripod 3) Both 1 & 2 Alert and interested readers (who number in the low single digits) will remember that a while back, I linked to a video by Tripod .
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Monday, April 10, 2006 12:40 PM

VertiSim - Time Waster of the day

When I was a kid in the 1970s, one of my friends had the Vertibird, a tethered helicopter game. It was really cool. Now you can relive what was considered "cool" in the 70s with VertiSim .
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Monday, April 10, 2006 9:02 AM

New Display Technology

There's a new display technology out there, and I'm confident it's going to be hotter than DLP, LDC, or even plasma. Because of the cost, my guess is that you'll initially see it at events such as concerts. Link (I suggest watching the showreel in the
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:24 AM

C# Trivia Quiz Part 1 - Answers

C# Trivia Quiz Part 1 I did warn you that these would be trivial. Here are the answers: Language Details 1) How many loop constructs does C# have, and what are they? Four: for, foreach, while, do Or, perhaps, that's only two, given that for and foreach
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:23 PM

Answer: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio?

Keith gets it right. The answer is the fuel turbopump for the space shuttle main engine. And there's a bit of a story there... There are a variety of different ways to make liquid fuel rockets work. In simple rockets, you use pressure in the tanks to
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:40 PM

Question of the day: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio? (Hint)

First additional hint: This engine produces in excess of 96 hp/lb. That is not a misprint. Take the # of hp it produces, divide it by the # of pounds it weighs, and you'll get a number that's a little over 96.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:48 AM

Question of the day: Engine with the highest power/weight ratio?

Who makes the engine (ie an engine with an output shaft that you could use to drive a pump or something...) with the highest power/weight ratio, and what is that engine used for?
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:28 AM

Fun fact of the day

The common gasoline engine uses a 4-stroke cycle conceptualized by the German engineer Nikolaus Otto in 1876. The english term "Automobile" is an anglicized version of the term "Otto-Mobile", which was applied to the first vehicles using such gasoline
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:47 AM

Mom and Apple Pie...

A few days ago Rory wrote a post entitled Ten Minutes of Sincerity - Enthusiasthma , in which he argues that there is such a thing as too much passion. Which got me thinking about one of my pet peeves. What do following words all have in common: Passion
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Monday, April 03, 2006 9:08 AM

I'm 28 again...

Two years ago , I was 28. And now, I'm 28 again. 28, using the septendecimal system. I figure I can keep this up every other year pretty much indefinitely. To celebrate my birthday, I dug 3 1 cubic foot holes in my front yard, and covered them with plastic
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Monday, April 03, 2006 8:40 AM

C# Trivia Quiz Part 1

(Thanks to all who sent me email questions for this test. I've elected to do something different with those, but you will see them in the future (adhering to my usual blog standard of "will"...)) Welcome to the C# trivia quiz. This is the first set of
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