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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:19 AM

TED

Every year, there is a convention known as TED - Technology, Entertainment, Design - that invites a lot of smart people to come and give talks. Thanks to a sponsorship by BMW, the organization has been making a bunch of previously-recorded talks available.
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Monday, October 30, 2006 9:13 PM

New Front Deck

At the end of summer last year, we got some water in our basement. Given that our house was built in the late 70s and the yard slopes down towards the house, it wasn't very surprising, but it did mean that we needed to get some drainage put in. We used
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Monday, October 30, 2006 8:45 PM

Trumpet Lamp

The PTA at my daughter's middle school is having an auction next week, and her band teacher came across an old student trumpet that she thought would make a nice lamp. Here is the result. The mouthpiece of the trumpet had gotten stuck, and the tube had
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:26 AM

Tour of the Evergreens

There's a group organized to put on a yearly stage race in Washington State. Tour of the Evergreens They're looking for some donations to help make it happen, and for help designing a logo. This will be very cool if they can pull it off.
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Monday, October 16, 2006 1:54 PM

Avalon tip of the day

When an Avalon app starts up, it parses the XAML file, and as it parses the file, it creates the object tree. Creating the object tree requires that the constructors for the objects be called. And if one of those constructors were to fail, you get a XamlParseException.
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Friday, October 13, 2006 1:33 PM

Word of the day - Humorish

Humorish Having the shape or form of humor without actually being funny. I coined it this morning at breakfast. I said something that wasn't funny (to my daughter or wife), though it was in the form of a joke. To be contrasted with Humorous Characterized
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Friday, October 13, 2006 9:05 AM

scrumbut

As somebody who is interested in Scrum but hasn't yet had a chance to try it, I've been paying attention to the various experiences people are having with it. I've been noticing something for a while, but I didn't really realize that there was something
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:08 PM

Getting started with Windows Presentation Framework (aka Avalon)

I'm starting to play around with Avalon (a name that I'll continue to use because of the savings of 2 syllables over WPF. It's my little contribution to help out in the syllable crisis... (Maybe the decibet would help....)) And I've found it a bit hard
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Friday, October 06, 2006 4:06 PM

Opportunity rover from space...

This is pretty cool stuff.
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Friday, October 06, 2006 10:27 AM

CSS Tools

You may have noticed that my blog page has changed appearance - this is part of a switch to community server 2.0. As some of you undoubtably know, the appearance of most blogs (and web pages in general) is controlled by a technology known as CSS. I've
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:50 PM

The psychology of arbitrary limits

NewsGator - which I use to fetch blog posts - today decided to fetch an August third post for me. At least it's from this year. In it, Larry talks about the volume control of a TV going from 0 to 63. And he discusses a possible reason for it, as do many
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:42 AM

Agile development and the Software Researcher

A while back I came across this post about agile . I originally was going to write a comment about that post, but I think the commenters have done a good job at that. I will point out that the environment described in the post is a lot like many of the
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Monday, October 02, 2006 10:46 AM

Studious sloth

Yesterday, I had the chance to go on the Kitsap Kolor Klassic (really, the Kitsap Color Classic), but I didn't. Excuses were proffered and accepted. I was tired from all the rides I'd done. I needed to work on my deck. I had family committments. All were
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