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February 2007 - Posts

Some Days My Life is So Hard
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:59 PM

And then there is this week coming up. Tomorrow my wife and I get on a plane for Orlando Florida. I am bringing my wife with me on a business trip. I am taking her to a conference about game development and computer science. Did I tell you where the conference

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Scratching the Programming Itch
Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:38 AM

HTML Source EditorWord wrap Friday and Saturday I was at MIT (specifically the famous Media Lab) learning about a programming platform/language for young people. The language is called Scratch and I may have blogged about it before. This

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How random is random?
Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:10 PM

Possibly the worst random number generating code ever. A little geek programmer humor.

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What is your dream?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:06 PM

I watched an interesting movie on a flight last week. The movie was called "The World's Fastest Indian" and it was about a man in New Zealand who dreamed of setting a land speed record. The "Indian" in the title is a brand of motorcycle. Burt Monro set

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Crazy Travel Week
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:59 PM

I went out to Seattle Sunday with my knee still wrapped up but at least not hurting to walk on. I was there for two full days (Monday and Tuesday) for training. I heard a number of very good speakers including Anders Hejlsberg and had some interesting

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Three Years? Has it really been three years?
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:02 PM

Looking back at my first post it appears that tomorrow marks three years of blogging at theSpoke. Whilel I have since started other blogs this is where it (blogging) all started for me. I continue to enjoy the company of this web site. I feel like I have

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Going full circle - Growing older and younger at the same time
Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:54 AM

I should know not to take part in activities with the potential to cause me great physical harm the day before a bit trip. But of course if I were that smart think of all the missed opportunities. Friday my son asked me if I would like to go snowboarding

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Strategy and Tactics
Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:45 PM

I found this quote from Sun Tzu: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory…Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” I have a real problem in general terms with taking too much of Sun Tzu and trying to apply it to life or

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