My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Why artists should give digital music away

July 21, 2007
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I left comments on the blog of Dare Obasanjo about what should be a decline in the price of digital music. It was in ...

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Invincible Computers

July 20, 2007
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I read recently of an invincible checkers-playing program call Chinook. Apparently this computer can never be beaten ...

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NBA Greatest Games (Stats 2.0)

July 18, 2007
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I was watching NBA greatest games, Detroit vs Chicago. MJ went for 47 points and while I really enjoyed the game and ...

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ASP.NET 2.0 deployment

July 12, 2007
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Due to the simplicity of the XCOPY deployment strategy in ASP.NET you can easily set your self up for dumb mistakes. It ...

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Using NAnt

July 11, 2007
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I am doing a doing a fair share of work that makes use of automated and semi-automated builds using NAnt scripts. I am ...

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Western Digital My Book

July 09, 2007
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I ended up purchasing the Western Digital My Book (320 gig). This has helped me stop worrying about the years and years ...

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Hype is everything

July 02, 2007
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I was going over the things that are actually new with the iPhone, and the only thing I could come up with was that it ...

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Microsoft Surface

June 23, 2007
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The Microsoft Surface seems like a very cool concept ... for a commercial retailer. At approximately $10,000 I am not ...

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Weird .NET error messages

June 19, 2007
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Got this wacky error when trying to complete a build. Delete VSWebCache! This answers about 80% of the issues for ...

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