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Hang your BlackBerry with your charger
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The Best FAQ in the World [The Post Money Value]
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The frequently asked question page on any web site is fairly important since you, hopefully, cut down on the confusion and other issues people could be having with you...
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Horse Genetics
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A horse recently died after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. This kind of thing happens a lot. How is it that horses are so fragile that they die just from...
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Jonathan DiCarlo: Voice recognition and ambiguity
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First, watch this video and laugh: Writing a Perl program with text-to-speech Cue discussion of how voice-activated interfaces are a terrible idea, that real computers...
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A simple solution to inflation
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An increasing number of commentators have pointed worryingly at growing inflation in many emerging markets. Inflation is around 8 percent in China and 11 percent in...
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Injecting Word Breaks with JavaScript
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Recently Eduardo Lundgren pinged me wondering if I had an alternate solution to injecting wbr tags inside a long word. The wbr tag tells the browser where a possible...
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SvnTask - A New Ant Task for Subversion
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I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple solution for using svn...
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Polymorphism and the Validation Application Block
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The Validation Application Block is a useful piece of technology, but unfortunately it doesn't get along too well with that slippery character called Polymorphism. This...
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Debugging Specs
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It is easy enough to debug specs on by one. For this you just run the ruby file that contains the spec with ruby-debug instead of ruby: rdebug spec/rur_spec.rb But...
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Favre Thoughts
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Brett Favre and I were born two weeks apart in 1969. This means that Favre is a 38 years old - and as my wife likes to note - “rapidly approaching 40″. ...
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New Belkin FlyWire Delivers HD Video and Audio Wirelessly to Any HDTV, Anywhere in Your Home
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The new Belkin FlyWire is the simple solution that gives you the freedom and flexibility to place your HDTV where you want—without cables. Featuring an intuitive and...
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Maximizing borderless window using SysParameter values
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Earlier on, I had written a post on maximizing a borderless (WindowStyle=None) window but without covering the taskbar. This solution works well but was not that nice to...
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OpenDNS – Keeping you safe day after day
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A number of our users have written in today asking if OpenDNS is vulnerable to the recent multi-vendor DNS security issue disclosed today by my good friend and security...
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The Backchannel Debate
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Jeremiah Owyang has a post up about his experience yesterday speaking on two different panels at the Web 2.0 Expo (where I will be speaking on Friday.)In each case a...
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Dealing with W3C Events; A story of running around in circles
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I am working on an interesting pet project that has a fairly rich UI. A rich UI means dealing with events, and I had a wake up call on what a pain it can be to deal with...
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Agility Means Simple Things Done Well, Not Complex Things Done Fast
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Creating agile organisations and teams are essential to keep pace with business today. Michael Hugos has a great post on agility where he makes the following point:...
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Happy Pudding Users
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I'm going to be updating Pudding's marketing site, ProjectPudding.com, with some very nice comments from some happy Pudding users.Here is one from John Lanza of...