Programs that put files in the root. Like, “c:\panda.rpt”. Or “c:\c28791e0aa1b31a2a343bd\update”. A directory I can’t delete. For some reason. The root is sacred space.
Monthly Archives: April 2007
April 27, 2007
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April 25, 2007
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Guess the Product and Win a Coffee Mug!
Count the buzzwords. And no, you don’t win a coffee mug. It’s just a fancy title. Who writes texts like these? They must be on crack or something.
April 24, 2007
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jQuery AJAX Oddities in Firefox
Ran into a strange problem today. I’m building a site in PHP5 with some recently found Ajax stuff using the wonderful jQuery library. However, the problem I found was that when I used SSPI/NTLM authentication, the ajax queries sent to the server would always generate a login screen. It was very weird, because it worked [...]
April 22, 2007
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Proposed Changes for Skärhamn
I just came back from taking a walk through town, and it struck me when I took my walk that this town – with a few reasonable changes – could be so beautiful. Right now, it’s full of narrow, winding streets without any particular order to it. The main street through town is also narrow [...]
April 19, 2007
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April 19, 2007
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Falling in Love with JavaScript
JavaScript is one of those gray areas in my life that I tend to stay away from. I’ve fiddled around with it once or twice, but it’s never had much of an appeal to me. That is, until I found jQuery. And Interface. I think this is the first time I’ve fallen in love with [...]
April 16, 2007
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Small Caps in PHP
Who would have thought that it would be so difficult to create images with text in PHP, especially using small capitals? I’m building a website where the titles are supposed to be in small capitals. To simplify things, I didn’t want to create it in Photoshop, but just have php render everything automatically. Which it [...]
April 12, 2007
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Mysteries
Sometimes, things just start working, without reason. This is a great mystery.
April 10, 2007
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Things I Would Rather Do than Work with ASP.NET
Smell the roses along the way. Go out fishing. Kiss a pretty girl. Drive a taxi. Hold a public presentation. Listen to music. Make music. Write a technical paper. Write a content management system in PHP. Write a haiku in Japanese. Write a haiku in FORTRAN. Learn Erlang. Learn French. Run a mile. Repair a [...]
April 6, 2007
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Because I Choose To
I love the Matrix movies. I know some people feel differently; but to me, they present a panoramic view over our entire mankind. To me, they provide a deep insight in what a simulated world must look like. It combines elements of machine-like mathematical purity with the chaotic and emotional mankind; the unification of which [...]
April 5, 2007
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What I Might Say to My Girlfriend, If I Had One
Purely hypothetical scenario. I love the way you look Early in the morning When you’ve just woken up And turn to me. I love the way you smile As I kiss you to say “Good morning”. I love the way you stumble through the kitchen Making tea I hear the muffled sounds of your showering [...]
April 4, 2007
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Oh the Dark Alleyways of ASP.NET
Venturing deeper and deeper into ASP.NET is exactly like playing Zork. Zork is an old, old adventure game from Infocom (in the spirit of the original Adventure game), where you wander through a gigantic cave, looking for treasure and trying to solve puzzles. The whole game is text-based, with sometimes complex tasks that you need [...]
April 4, 2007
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2:34pm and All is Well
Microsoft has an unnerving ability to make the complicated easy, the easy complicated, and the supposedly obvious absolutely unintelligible.
April 3, 2007
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log4net? Not for Me
I’ve just made a decision not to build my logging in any application on log4net. I’m sure log4net is a wonderful tool that can log anything, anywhere, to any log consumer. But after sitting here struggling for hours in trying to get it to log correctly – both for myself and for a client’s ASP.NET [...]
April 2, 2007
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Sweden, Be Proud
I have an American flag hanging on my wall at home. I keep it there for a few reasons; one, which I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, I’m practically half-American anyway, and I might as well fly the colors of the nation I love; two, the colors blend nicely into my living-room; and three, because [...]
April 1, 2007
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Random Thoughts on the New Home
I’ve lived in my new home for two weeks now. These are some thoughts that have accumulated so far. The nice but deaf lady downstairs keeps cranking up the volume on her TV so the whole house shakes. I’ve already talked to her twice, but it doesn’t help. I may have to call the landlord [...]
April 1, 2007
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A Sudden Rush of Perspective
This is exactly how I feel at times.