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February 2004 - Posts

Drugged out and full of bliss

I've got a new drug. I'm not sure how long its going to last. Thanks to all the feedback from my prior post . I got a lot of ideas from everyone who replied, and I acted on one of them. I purchase the Harmony SST-659 universal remote. It is programmed Read More...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2004 11:28 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Compelling thoughts

Sometimes I get singly focused on my work. It's all I can think about. I know its happening. I even help it along by shutting myself off from everything else. It's easy to do at work. I go into my office, shut the door and I'm in my own little cave; a Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:09 PM by mattwar | 15 Comments
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Turbo Charged

At lunch last week a few of us were reminiscing about early language environments, compilers and what not. Anders was there telling us stories about his early days. I thought I would come clean for a change. I let everyone in on my dirty little secret. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:02 PM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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Cheat Codes

Betsy and I were playing Neverwinter again a few nights ago. We were having trouble with some metal behemoths. It seems our tactics and weapons were having no effect. We would have had a better weapon, but it was accidentally sold at the last merchant Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 5:11 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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ObjectSpaces: The Power of the Dot

When the ObjectSpaces project was first getting underway, back when the team consisted of just myself and Luca, there was a strange sort of awakening that occurred. One that can only be described as the sudden realization and belief in the power of the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:39 PM by mattwar | 26 Comments
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Getting a grip on the big picture

I got a grip on Sunday, or more to the point I was the grip. I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening pushing what is technically a giant skateboard back and forth along a track. My brother David, the 'independent film director' was working Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:40 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Leaked Windows code shows similarity to UNIX

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I guess it is plain to see that windows shares a lot of similarities with Unix. SCO would be very interested to know that some lines of code are identical between windows and Unix System V sources. For example, I found Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 10:49 AM by mattwar | 15 Comments
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I want a new drug

I want something to buy. Some piece of technology. I've got the money, but there is nothing out there. Nothing that gives me a buzz, like it used to. I'm not saying that I have every gadget, gizmo and thing-a-ma-bob that's available. Quite the contrary. Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004 3:40 PM by mattwar | 23 Comments
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Language Inferencing

I've been involved in a lot of debates over the last few years over the merits of strongly-typed languages versus loosely-types ones. For example, vbscript and java script are generally loosely-typed languages. Local variables defined within a body of Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:41 PM by mattwar | 11 Comments
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Everything's Xen

I’m writing this today as I sit relaxing on my new office couch. You can read about my couch adventure here. Ah, the luxury. Though now I hear that Don Box has a BED in his office. I’m not sure if I should be jealous or not. I think I’ll Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:10 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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The XML Conspiracy

I really shouldn't be telling you this. It will probably get me into a lot of trouble. Still, its not like a lot of people are reading this, so I might as well open up for once and tell you the straight scoop. XML was a hoax. This is real. Not many people Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:37 PM by mattwar | 14 Comments
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Reality Check

No Stargate tonight. They were all repeats of ones we had seen so Betsy and I played a hour of Neverwinter Nights instead. If you can't watch soldiers beating up on aliens on TV, the next best thing is to beat up on goblins yourself. We play cooperatively. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2004 11:26 PM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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Static Variables

I was feeling rather static today. Maybe its a cold coming on. Colds sometimes give me tunnel vision, or at least it feels that way, like I'm trapped inside my own head, my body controlled by remote. Somehow I'm both the controller and the controlled. Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:55 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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The XML Pull

What's all the hubbub about Microsoft's XML patents? It's not as if the company is trying to patent XML itself. You'd think by all the noise being stirred up over it that Microsoft was trying to steal milk from babies. And believe me, they are not. In Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:03 PM by mattwar | 7 Comments
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Lost in Limbo

I stopped by the post office this morning to mail out a small package. It was a few small collectible items that were being sent out as part of a trade with another person I had only met over the internet. There was no line to wait in, so that was lucky, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:09 AM by mattwar | 11 Comments
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Terminal Atrocity

I'm sitting at home using VPN to connect into work. I'm downloading one of the later builds of whidbey and all of our source tree. It's going to take a long time. At least I'm not doing it manually, my home computer is talking to my work machine using Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 11:09 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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The Couch Trip

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seemed to just go wrong? I have, but that day was not yesterday. It was one of the other kind. Not that everything went well, it just sorted of all worked out in spite of itself. AND it had nothing Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 9:37 AM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Dragon Stank

Dragon Storm, Saturday, SCI-FI channel: I want my two hours back. I sat through that rubish tonight. I had it recorded on TiVo. TiVo is great and all, and someday I'll write a glowing review and share all my wonderful experiences, but tonight the whole Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:29 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Chaos Trees Reloaded

A reader pointed me to a bunch of reviews of Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, that I was alluding to in my last post. Here it is in case anyone else is interested in checking out how tiny computer programs actually created the universe. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579550088/qid=1075577679//ref=pd_ka_1/103-5704049-9739019?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:35 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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