December 20, 2004
Harry Potter Fans, Rejoice
CNN is reporting that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will go on sale in Britain and the United States on July 16, 2005. Sweet, we get book 6 and movie 4 the same year!
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← All posts December 19, 2004
Everyone Has A GMail Account By Now, Right?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I just don't get the fuss and hype surrounding GMail. Honestly, while it does have some cool features, it just does not work for me. But that being said, I have 6 more invites to give away. So, if you are one of the few remaining carbon-based life forms...
December 19, 2004
It's The Beard, Apparently
Pete Freitag blogged an apparent association between beards and successful languages . This one may be pushing it, but just to be sure I don't jinx anything, I'll keep mine. :-)
December 19, 2004
CFLunch In Chicago
Adam Howitt just e-mailed me to tell me about (and invite me to) CFLunch. As per Adam, "I run a CFLunch meeting every other Wednesday for ColdFusion developers in the loop area. These are less formal than CFUG meetings and are just an opportunity for round table discussion. Currently we have around...
December 18, 2004
WiFi Detection Done Right
I've not bought a Wi-Fi detector yet for one reason, while these devices are great at locating Wi-Fi access, they won't let you know whether encryption is enabled or not (and so you end up having to boot up anyway, which makes the device somewhat useless). What I was waiting for was a device that...
December 15, 2004
Heckle Gus For A Good Cause
ColdFusion developer (and CFUG manager) Steve Gustafson is on a diet, losing weight to help raise money to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease") by accepting pledges for each pound he loses between 12/10/2004 and 6/29/2005. To pledge, check his...
December 15, 2004
Write For EasyCFM, Win An iPod
Charlie Griefer just brought this one to my attention. Easycfm is also running a tutorial contest. Tutorials received between December 15th, 2004 and January 15th, 2005 will be eligible to win an Apple IPod (40GB), with the winner to be decided by vote. Details at Easycfm .
December 15, 2004
Write A Tutorial, Win A Personal Audio System
dream.in.code is looking for new tutorials (on several subjects, including Flash and ColdFusion), and is running a contest looking for the best tutorial submitted to their new tutorial area. They are giving away a Klipsch ProMedia 2.0 Personal Audio System to the winner. Here are the details .
December 13, 2004
If All Else Fails, I Could Get Into The Spam Business
When I first heard the words "Desperate Housewives" (on a TV ad for that show) my initial reaction was "sounds like the kind of subject line that my spam filter should trap". An sure enough, I was just going through my spam filter logs and there it is, a whole bunch of messages with the subject...
December 12, 2004
Here's The Machine
About a dozen of you have e-mail me to ask what the machine costs, and have asked for more specs. So, here it is (for sale on IBM's web site).
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