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Karl Rove via Google Image Search

Here is what I get: link

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the new Longhorn UI screenshots

based on some comments from Jim and Steve, I checked it out. It is nice that they updated the UI. I hope they updated the GDI as well so the UI doesn’t do the WM_ERASEBKND stuff (ie. by default, the … Continue reading

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Review: New Voyages

Yeah, I’m late to the party for this stuff, but here goes. A while back, some Star Trek fans got together and made some new episodes based on the original Star Trek. They are called New Voyages. Review: Recommeded. Just … Continue reading

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Review: Star Wars Revelations

On the Star Wars front, there is a new fan film called Revelations by Panic Struck productions. It’s a free download via torrent or their site. Overall: Recommended. Yeah, it’s not a Lucasfilm product, but it’s not too far off. … Continue reading

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Busted Feed/Broken Links

I had some broken feed links and broken links in general on the blog. These have been fixed.

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Conventions

Today I blanked out on this word… “conventions”. Its an important word when doing quality programming. When you get past the languages and API’s, it’s important to have good “conventions” when programming. Why do I bring this up? Well, when … Continue reading

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Garbage Collection Innovation

I asked this question a month ago and I’m still wondering now. When can we all agree about the proper form of garbage collection? Will there ever be an interface or middle ground to a garbage collected heap that will … Continue reading

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configure and make suck – lets move on

The other day I had to build a binary for a major open source project at work. The project relied on configure and make, and this had to be built on windows. 6 hours later.. the binary finally ran. Why … Continue reading

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