Monthly Archives: September 2007
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First impressions of the Amazon MP3 store
So, Amazon has its very own MP3 store now. I’m generally happy with iTunes, but Amazon claims to be cheaper and free of DRM, so I gave it a go. Finding albums/tracks to buy works pretty well the same way that finding CD’s works on Amazon. If you’re familiar with that, it’s a no brainer. [...]
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October Road in Monrovia
It’s been a long week. There’s a cold going around Mayflower. Stephanie is just coming off of it and I seem to be merging on to the expressway to Chicken Soup land. Good times. On a Friday night during these exciting times we go to bed early. Or at least we want to. As soon [...]
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Lava Lamp
Stephanie just told me about Mike Rowe‘s previous life on QVC. There’s some amazing stuff out there on the Youtubes. Check it out.
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An open letter to the Internet
Dear Project Euler, Damn you. Give me my free time back. XOXO, Corey
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General Contractors
Man, home repairs sure do suck. I’d hate it if something like this happened to me. I know I threw that party for my boys and said we were “done” years ago… but that really needs to be put into context, you see. When I said “done” I meant “done with the hard part,” which [...]
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Roman Numeral Parser
I wondered the other night how straightforward a task parsing roman numerals (up to 4999) is. As revealed by about 30 seconds of Googling: pretty straightforward. Here it is in Python: import re ROMAN_RE = re.compile(“”" ^ # beginning of string (M{0,4}) # thousands – 0 to 4 M’s (CM|CD|D?C{0,3}) # hundreds – 900 (CM), [...]
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Assembler programmers don’t have groupies
The most recent Joel on Software is yet another of his oft-linked to industry history/vision of the future bits that again fails to mention the coming Singularity. In it he likens current AJAX applications (using Google’s Gmail as a specific example) to Lotus 1..2..3.. and other DOS standouts doomed by the great leap forward that [...]
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Accelerade
Both Discovery and The Ocho show ads for Accelerade at least nine times an hour. I’m not kidding. Each and every commercial break it’s “don’t fade. Accelerade!” Turns out that Accelerade is giving free cases out to bloggers to get some of the old internets buzz going. Here’s one account of a “month’s supply” of [...]
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