Monthly Archives: July 2004

G-Blog RSS Bug (?) Report

Posted on July 31, 2004 by Robert

I was just messing around with Sage a bit, so I loaded the G-Blog.net :: Recent Entries RSS feed into it. Gossip, shouldn’t the link in the channel description point to http://G-Blog.net/recent.php instead of just http://G-Blog.net, since that’s what’s being … Continue reading →

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Note to Internet Explorer:

Posted on July 31, 2004 by Robert

When I tell you to print out the current time in the footer of a document in addition to the date, and I tell you to use the 24hr format, DON’T append an AM/PM!!! “21:49:05 PM” indeed. Jeez.

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Techno Lust

Posted on July 24, 2004 by Robert

I’m so getting one of these. Pity I have to wait until 2005 (at least) From: del.icio.us/revjim

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I’m gonna sing the Doom song!

Posted on July 24, 2004 by Robert

I just made an Amazon purchase a couple of days ago. I went to the site to check on shipping and ended up poking around a bit when I saw this: Invader Zim Doom Doom Doom (Vol 1) CURSES! If … Continue reading →

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PVPOnline: Good CoH Stuff

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Robert

I don’t read PVP regularly, but I was digging around a bit in the Penny Arcade archive when I came across this link in one of Tycho’s Rants. I backtracked through the PVP archives a bit and found the beginning … Continue reading →

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I love/hate the 90s

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Robert

VH1 has recently been producing a series of Decade Nostalgia shows. I enjoyed “I love the 80s” and “I love the 80s Strikes Back” and got a kick out of “I love the 70s”, but I wasn’t sure I’d want … Continue reading →

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Memories of my Father

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Robert

My father was killed a year and a day ago. Shortly after his death, I began writing down things I remembered about him. I’ve been keeping it in a Word Document on my machine, and have thought about posting it … Continue reading →

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cognitive overhead

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Robert

I’m reading an article on converting XML to MS Word, and I jusst had to stop to blog this quote [Quote] …the end users would have high a degree of customization available with very little cognitive overhead. [Quote] The way … Continue reading →

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A Night at the Theatre

Posted on July 12, 2004 by Robert

My mom and step-father gave my wife 2 tickets to the stage production of “The Lion King” in San Fancisco for Christmas. Last night was the show. It was Awesome. We’ve both wanted to see this, ever since seeing a … Continue reading →

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I have a triple-boot system

Posted on July 10, 2004 by Robert

My home PC now has 3 options in it’s GRUB menu: Windows 98 Redhat 9 Unununium 0.1 What the hell is unununium, you ask? Its a new OS being written in Python. It’s still REALLY early in development, (I’m not … Continue reading →

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