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- Here are a few shots of the upcoming Attakus statues of Chewbacca the Wookiee and Dark Lord Darth Vader, coming out this summer. You'll soon be able to follow all the details at www.america.attakus.com, which will soon be online. |
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- Extreme XML: Best Practices for Representing XML in the .NET Framework. Dare Obasanjo looks at the available options for representing XML-based data that is shared between components within a single process and AppDomain. [MSDN Just Published] |
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- I was recently faced with the task of trying to figure out why, sporadically, when Calling an MSMQ's Peek() function, an application would loose memory for no apparent reason. It was pretty weird and hard to even recreate. Searching google turned up this very helpful news group message which seems to have answered the problem: |
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- Here is your request: You can right click on it and save it to your computer! Let me know if you need anything else! |
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- A beleaguered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Likud Party members that they may vote themselves out of power if they reject his Gaza pullout plan, as new polls showed his gamble to seek their approval for the proposal may backfire. |
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- Sent to me by a friend. One of those mass emails that ended with this little nugget: If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier.... |
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- Sent to me by a friend. One of those mass emails that ended with this little nugget: If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier.... |
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- I got my tax refund today!!!!!!! *singing* me gonna go shoppppppppping..me gonna have monies!!!! Boom chicka booooooooooooooooom!!!... |
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- Old-school rapper arrested before a concert Tuesday for failing to pay child support |
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- NBC puts a whopping $2 million price tag on commercial airtime during Friends' May 6 finale |
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- Jon Husband reports on a speech delivered in Canada by the Dalai Lama: Asked in the question period at the end of his talk what he considered the world's greatest problem, he replied: "Population ..... and the growing gulf between... |
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- I had to post this just for the freak show content. Rasputin was the root of all evil in Czarist Russia. Well some people would have you believe that. Not safe for work just because I said member. You have to look.... |
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- This is the actual SEC filing for Google's IPO. It's not a repost, that's just the news item. This runs 100 printed pages, but the coolest thing to me was on the second. |
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- The Housing Market: It seems that the housing market is at the focus of everyone's thoughts in... |
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- We see the Iraqi attacks on civilian contractors get national exposure. Now the US gets the same treatment. And the US government and military claim that their upholding the Geneva Convention. Hmmm... Lets see - Clause 1. |
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- Nano-computers fighting cancer are cool. Found the "Down In the Dumps" cache during lunch today, and the "Cannonball Racer04" travel bug. And I thought RIAA was bad - the Japanese equivalent of RIAA is preparing to sue 1,000,000 (yes, one MILLION) people for illegally downloading MP3's. Noah's Ark to be found shortly. The Feds are finally prosecuting some spammers under the new CAN-SPAM law (not that it will help, but it's a start). |
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- Project description: Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins. |
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- Project administrators: grantblackman, patrickblackman |
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- Most recent daily statistics (24 Apr 2004): Ranking: 15359, Activity percentile: 6.22%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (24 Apr 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- President Bush instrumental in stopping U.N. resolution that would have made homosexuality and abortion international human rights. |
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- Reference: 40483. Category: Engineering. Duration: |
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- Looks like Google's finally going public. Unfortunately, I don't think the googlefever will calm down for some time yet, as the shares aren't immediately available. All I'm going to link to here is the press release. |
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- <rant>When I'm reading a blog in my newsreader, and want to e-mail the blogger, I want to follow a link labeled "e-mail". When I receive an e-mail about an event I want to attend, I want to follow a link labeled "add to calendar." When blogger A mentions blogger B, I want to follow a link labeled "more on blogger B", and see what company blogger B works for. |
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- Same-Sex Marriage Feed Group Page - Blogdigger Groups - Steven Cohen shows just how easy it is to create a website aggregating news on a topic. Shows the power of syndication. Note to Steven: a quick search on Google finds me MarriageDebate.com, which you may want to add. |
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- After a few weeks of having some small videofiles (300K-ish) up on my site, they have risen to my top files in Kilobytes. I think this is because they load if you load my homepage. I have to find a way to not have them load upon pageload. ---hits------Kilobytes-----Fil 1 17407 1.90% 628562 6. |
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- NEW YORK, April 29 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today affirmed its 'BBB+' corporate credit and 'A-2' |
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- "Indeed, Kodak's digital cameras are now fourth in worldwide sales. The Easy Share line is widely praised for its usability. And Kodak also holds the patent on OLED technology, which is used for flat-screen displays." First, I didn't really think Kodak was a player in the digital camera arena. Second, I've never heard of Easy Share. |
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- "The 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 6-10 September 2004" Learn more about HCI 2004 (Thanks for the submission Daniel Szuc.) |
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- press release and dossier of "dirty tricks" Dublin Grassroots Network has expressed concern that the government is attempting to incite a riot. This follows a pattern of harassment, misrepresentation and intimidation apparently designed to raise tensions in advance of May Day protests. DGN has raised particular concerns about the use of undercover policemen, who have a history of acting as agents provocateurs. DGN has also released a dossier of "dirty tricks" from the security forces and unscrupulous journalists. ... |
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- Getting up and walking out of a meeting with the President after you have DEMANDED and FORCED him to be there, is inexcusable! Yet that is what Kerrey and Hamilton did.... |
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- Update From Rio Grande Games: "Once again, we are proud to announce that we received a Mensa Select award. For 2004, the game Yinsh took one of the 5 awards. This follows previous winners: Zertz, Dvonn, and Transamerica. |
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- Some details on the new Runebound game from the Fantasy Flight folks: "In Runebound, you play one of 12 different characters, each with its own stats and special abilities. You move around the board using special movement dice that tell you what kind of terrain you can move into. (For instance, you might roll two plains, a swamp, and a road.) Scattered strategically around the board are a number of ... |
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