ElegantCode

A software blog

4 Nov
2004

What is Wrong with People?

There is a radio station in New York that is sponsoring Slap Fest, a contest where people slap each other to the encouragement of the DJs. Here are videos of the contest: http://www.hot97.com/music/exclusives.aspx This is the stupidest thing I think I have ever seen.

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2 Nov
2004

Halloween as the MSN Butterfly

My wife is an amazing seamstress.  I cannot thank her enough for her ability and willingness to realize my dream of being the MSN Butterfly for Halloween this year. Never before have I felt so alive while portraying the marketing figure for a multi-national corporation.  Adding a flask of bourban to this costume resulted in a truly […]

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27 Oct
2004

Bug Triage Process

As if this weren’t painful enough to live through, you can watch a real life Microsoft bug triage meeting on Channel 9. These guys clearly know that they are on camera.  I have never seen a triage meeting go that well without yelling or some sort of fighting. As I would expect, the MSBuild team […]

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20 Oct
2004

Google Desktop Search

Scott Hanselmann has a great post on the details of Google Desktop Search, so I will leave out the techie bits, but I just have to say this this is a great little app. Now, the next logical question is, “Can I gain programmatic access to it?”  I will be poking at that.  Is this […]

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18 Oct
2004

Team America

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I never thought that watching puppets could make me feel dirty. Thanks to Matt Stone, I now know better. This movie is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. If you wear your politics on your sleeve or are easily offended by racial, sexual, ethnic, crude, or any other kind […]

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18 Oct
2004

Prilosec OTC

I have GERD, or Gastrointestinal Esophageal Reflux Disease, and had finally found a solution to this painful affliction in the form of the little purple pill, Prilosec OTC. Procter and Gamble’s distribution of Prilosec OTC started in the spring and sales far outpaced production.  Now I am in a lot of pain waiting for production […]

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13 Oct
2004

Front Line : The Choice 2004

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I saw this FrontLine episode on PBS last night, The Choice 2004, and I must say, this is the best breakdown I have ever seen about where the presidential candidates come from. This show details their lives beginning at Yale and continues all the way through this election. This may be the most powerful media […]

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11 Oct
2004

DotLucene

Someone finally did the right thing. After the Lucene.Net to SearchBlackBox debacle, someone (George Aroush?) reopened the source forge project as DotLucene. The Source Forge project is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotlucene/ And the project home page is here: http://openlucene.net/ All I can say is thank you.

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