Mar 31
I learned that Fryderyk Chopin, the composer, had his heart removed before burial because he had a fear of being buried alive. I also learned that Thousand Island dressing did not originate in the Thousand Islands area of the St. Lawrence river. It originated in New Orleans before 1900.
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Jan 12
Now, let me get this straight…..We are going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered …
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Dec 10
Smart Bear Software recently released a white paper discussing the misconception that peer code review is a hindrance to Agile development methodologies. For anyone who regularly performs peer code reviews, would like to start performing them, or thinks they are an obstacle when it comes to Agile development should read this paper. The paper talks …
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Dec 03
I have started working on a new project in .NET and the Problem Domain (PD) was modeled in Visio UML. Fantastic. Now I wanted to forward engineer the UML into C# classes to begin development, but wait, I can’t. I only have Visio 2007 Professional, and the forward engineering features are only available in the …
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Nov 25
I installed Google Chrome Frame about a month ago, and I am very impressed with how responsive and quick Internet Explorer is with JavaScript intensive web pages now. If you use a lot of JavaScript intensive websites, e.g., Facebook, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, etc., you will notice a significant improvement in performance when using …
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Oct 21
When Oracle first announced that they were acquiring BEA, the first thought that went through my head wasn’t “I wonder if Oracle AS will be dropped in favor of WebLogic.”; it was “Oh great! Now I won’t be able to find shit on the WebLogic forums too.” It’s been several months since the acquisition, but …
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Oct 14
It’s official. The FTC and CCB have both approved Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth. No doubt the Collegeville airspace is going to be a bit more busy over the next few weeks. You can read about it here. I’ll be spending the rest of the week performing a global search and replace on all the professional social websites …
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Sep 13
Just a quick note to say that Beck’s Oktoberfest is as good this year as it was last year. I can’t wait for Stoudts to distribute theirs.
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May 13
My sister and brother-in-law recently moved to Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, and my brother-in-law just sent an e-mail with his first impressions. I thought they were a bit profound and thought they should be shared. “Germany isn’t quite what I expected: no permeating smell of stale body odor and Drakkar cologne, no feminine hairy armpit sightings (yet!), …
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Feb 15
I have been really busy as of late (haven’t we all?), and every time I think about something to write about, I jot down a few notes so I will remember what it is I wanted to write about. As of late it has been stupid shit I hear or read about in Mass Media; …
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