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April 2004 - Posts

The Next Chihuahua

It’s been a long time since I’ve slept in an actual bed and eaten a home cooked meal. I’ve been a derelict, a wanderer, living off the land, so to speak, traveling from town to town; a modern age nomad. I try to be all noble about it, Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:54 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Uncensored, Unabridged and Unreal

I would like to take a moment and say to everyone that the persons depicted in my story Hard Reboot were fictional, and all similarities to persons living and dead are purely coincidental. If you believe certain individuals have been defamed, derided Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:19 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Stalking Java

I got mail again today inviting me to the JavaOne conference. It's kind of sad. I can't imagine getting a good reception out of the people there if I were to show up with a name tag emblazoned with 'Microsoft.' Though, maybe with the New Deal between Read More...
Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 1:07 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Linux makes inroads yet again

I'm a Microsoft guy, so reading news about the spread of Linux is often times disheartening. It's not so much the success of the operating system, its just that it feels like you're not in the clique if your not loading up linux on a half dozen PC's that Read More...
Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 12:47 PM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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Hard Reboot

What happens when a software moguls wakes up thousands of years into the future? Read the story! Hard Reboot The bitter chill of cryogenic sleep faded as I began to wake. It felt like bits of ice were still clinging to my skin. The surgical table was Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 25, 2004 11:34 PM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Code Warriors

The smell of sulfur is in the air, as clouds of smoke slowly dissipate in the stale wind. The debris of war is strewn across the battlefield; crumpled metal canisters, oil stained boxes and the melted remains left by soldiers long gone; nothing left standing. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:38 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments
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More Monkeys

For those of you that missed this link on Saturday, I've reposted so you can find out what happens when you ask a programmer to fix a science experiment. He gestured with his hands for me to follow him, but I just stood there, my brain spinning in infinite Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:14 PM by mattwar | 0 Comments

ObjectSpaces: The Devil is in the Demand

On object persistence I’m object persnickety. I’ve looked at this problem space quite a bit over the last five years. I’ve built systems and frameworks galore that provide a multitude of different styles of object-relational mapping Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 2:34 PM by mattwar | 25 Comments
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Snig the Email Goblin

Snig is staring down at me from atop the secondary monitor. That’s the monitor that shows all that other stuff that I am not focused on at the moment. It might be just outlook showing my current email, or a terminal server session into a build machine. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:13 PM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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The new dark age

Sometimes scientists and researchers surprise us with new findings. Results from studies often debunk long held beliefs and many times even overturn supposedly proven facts from past scientific works. We take it all in stride, because we all know that's Read More...
Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 8:01 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Orwellian Mood Orbs

So much for the mood ring. Now scientists (and technologist) have tapped directly into the power of the mind that affects moods. It has been known for years that certain visual stimulus can alter moods in people. For example, some people become depressed Read More...
Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 11:07 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Being Null

Something feels like a blank page today. Maybe it’s getting back to work after a sunny weekend and not immediately feeling the need to jump back into the quagmire. Possibly that’s because I reached a certain closure last Friday on a bit of Read More...
Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 10:12 AM by mattwar | 6 Comments
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This little meme had roast beef

What’s this book-meme thing? That’s just got to be the stupidest thing I’ve seen to date. What are we trying to prove here, that nobody is original anymore? Let’s all follow the leader like a bunch of lemmings racing toward the Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:16 PM by mattwar | 8 Comments

Losing mindshare

Charlie was practicing his letters today. He is three and a half. Sometimes he likes to pretend that he is writing out words (even when he is not holding some sort of pencil.) That’s what he was doing today. Betsy was a bit perplexed by it because Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:03 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Infinite Monkeys

This started out as a post, but it soon became evident that it deserved a much more honored placement. I'll be truthful with you all; it's a bit fabricated, but when has that stopped any of you from reading this blog. So, go ahead, read the story! Infinite Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:18 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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You may be a winner!

There are police helicopters circling overhead. I’m sure they are not after me. I hope not, anyway. That would be a bummer. Sure, I stretched the truth a bit on a few posts, but nothing to get me into that much hot water. They must be after some Read More...
Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 9:48 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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The long haul

Whew. For a minute there I thought I was completely out of posts. I had been stretching it a bit thin lately, scrapping the bottom of the barrel, sort of like squeezing out that last bit of toothpaste when you’ve been out for weeks and have been Read More...
Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 12:36 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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The Legion of Doom

I just thought you would all like to know the truth behind the blogs here at Microsoft. There was something going on that you knew nothing about. At least for me, the blogs that I posted, the comments, the gags, the code snippets, had nothing to do with Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:43 PM by mattwar | 9 Comments
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Don't Read This

Not a blog in a long time. I don’t know what came over me. There’s a little bit of chaos in my life right now. The inside of the house is being painted, so Betsy, Charlie and I have been living basically out of one room in the house. That Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:43 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Personal Google

Since I’ve got all these background processors going all the time, you might think I’d be of two minds (or more) about a lot of things. You might think that it would be impossible to filter out all the static noise, all the random thoughts Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:23 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments

Programming in the Nude

The week rolled by faster than I thought possible. The weekend was a blur. I was at it again, up late, hunched over the alphanumerics, my face tidally locked to the phosphorus glow of the picture tube. I was deep in thought, my mind lost somewhere between Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:05 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Gmail: What were they thinking?

I've been thinking about this quite a bit. Google's proposed gmail will 'read' your email and based on words/subjects/etc that it finds it will target ads at you whenever you go to the site to read your mail. It will store up to one gigabyte of email Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:53 PM by mattwar | 12 Comments
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Aspect Oriented Programming

There’s been a lot of hype lately over this new fangled paradigm known as Aspect Oriented Programming. You might have heard it mentioned on another blog or in some technical article on the fringe of the mediaverse. You probably scratched your head Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:14 PM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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Rated X

I’m so steaming mad; I don’t even know where to start. I was minding my own business, surfing a little, reading some blogs, trying to take a break for a moment from the daily grind when I stumbled upon this beauty. It sounded like a real winner, Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:04 PM by mattwar | 12 Comments
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