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November 2006 - Posts

Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:50 PM

The Speed of Meme, and the discrete charm of easy to generate content.

I hate posts which are just links to other pages (which is actually not true --- I do like reading other people's blogs which are just links --- I just think it's cheating when I do it) But this site has a built in reason to blog a link to it (He's trying
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Monday, November 27, 2006 5:46 PM

Videos which involve neither Rev. Billy nor Politicans.

I've noticed that the video, in my downloads section, of my friend lighting a bonfire in his backyard has been downloaded some 800 times. So, I figured I'd upload the video of him firing off his cannon, but this time I put it up on YouTube. Funny thing
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:16 AM

This is cheating....

I just noticed that if I write three more blog entries (well, now two more), my output for the passed three months will match that of the previous 15 months. An Additional 5, and we can make it an even two years. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:08 AM

More Videos

Ok, in this selection we've got politians and Rev Billy. One or the other is not going to forgive me. Music first. The Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir singing "Not For Sale" Now the talking heads. We start with two from Rep Pascrell. Next, we toss
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Monday, November 20, 2006 11:46 AM

Generics without Collections, Pt. 3

Over the weekend, I attended the third NJ Code Camp. And since the moderators asked nicely, I presented this series as a talk. Overall, the lecture didn't go well. (I was too nervous and talk too quickly. Oddly, on one of the evaluation sheets, someone
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Monday, November 20, 2006 10:46 AM

Move Rev. Billy Videos!

Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir continue their 6-brough(*) tour of New York City, yesterday appearing at the Everything Goes Cafe on Staten Island. (*) Yes, they've annexed Jersey City, NJ as part of NYC. Sister Lizzie Steeleheart
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Monday, November 13, 2006 10:25 AM

Rev. Billy Videos!

One of my favorite activists (hmm... That's a strange way of putting it) is the Reverend Billy , leader of the Church Of Stop Shopping, who preaches about the evil of commercialism, along with the Church's Gospel Choir (who sing about said evils). (Billy,
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:32 AM

Generics without Collections, pt. 2

My previous article on this subject dealt with creating a lazy-loaded data type. But, if you think about it, that's realy just a collection, with just one item. I promised you use of generics without collections, so let's move this to the next step, using
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