Monthly Archives: May 2004

More Halo 2 news

13 May 2004
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From BetaNews:


http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1084386892

People that think they know what programmers do

12 May 2004
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Brian Marick had this great post.


This brings back memories of a bad, bad client I once worked for.

Personal goal for this year

12 May 2004
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My goal is “32 by 32”.

making difficult decisions

12 May 2004
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As I said in my previous post, I “re-discovered” my original blog.

Ahhh…the good old days

12 May 2004
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I keep one of my sites around mainly for files and email.

What is wrong with the US in the eyes of Don Kiely

11 May 2004
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Pisser…Don Kiely turns out to be a left-wing nut.


I’m sorry to say this, but President Bush did NOT steal the election; he won…yep, by 537 votes.

Halo 2

11 May 2004
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Dan Fernandez blogged about the release of Halo2 on Monday.


Halo is my favorite game of all time (although there are some close runner-ups).

New version of ViM

07 May 2004
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Release notes


One of the new features:
- MS-Windows: Vim can run inside an MDI window of another application.

Mmmm….I can think of a bunch of cool ideas using this…

Database Design and PKs

07 May 2004
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Mike Pope links to a great blog by Nick Hodges.


I had an interesting experience regarding #1 on Nick’s list.

Utilities I can’t live without

06 May 2004
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I’ve seen blogs like this in the past, so I figured I’d throw together my list:


4NT – a great replacement for cmd.exe
ActiveState Perl
ViM – a great text editor
HyperSnap-DX – a great screen capture program
DocClear – my own program for managing the entries in the ‘Documents’ menu
WinZip
SharpReader
Gravity
Trillian
Lavasoft Ad-aware


I spend a large portion of my day at the command-line (4NT), using ViM.