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Corel Office takes on MS Office via TV commercials
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:54 PM

Corel Office takes on MS Office via TV commercialsCorel has released some funny commercials that poke fun of the MS Office packages. The "Value" and the "Feature Rich" videos are the best. http://www.SeeWhoGotFired.com

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Smartphones (Pocket PC based) cost too much & Smartphone GPS ideas
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:36 PM

Smartphones (Pocket PC based) cost too much & Smartphone GPS ideasSince the company I work at is cutting back company cell phones (I'm on the cut off list) I figured that perhaps it's time to finally get a personal cell phone. Being a developer,

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Visual Studio 2005's "My" framework is a double edge sword
Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:44 PM

Visual Studio 2005's "My" framework is a double edge swordAt first I thought this is a great feature but I can see why any seasoned .Net developer or teacher will hate it. New in VS2005 is the "My" framework, which is basically a massive set of

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Cell Phone 2-Way is the worst invention ever
Friday, April 16, 2004 1:07 PM

Cell Phone 2-Way is the worst invention everFor those that didn't know, I wanted to give you the truth about cell phone 2-way technology (aka walkie talkie on your cell phone). Our company has been using Nextel phones and have even upgraded phones

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April fools: Big dissapointment this year
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:09 AM

April fools: Big dissapointment this yearWhile there were a few more April fools I didn't post, they weren't very good. Blah, what ever happened to a good joke. Heck even I played a better joke on my coworkers yesterday about a certain department

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Never trust a default!
Monday, April 12, 2004 8:57 PM

Never trust a default!One concept I've been practicing for a few years (that I learned from HTML) is that you should never trust a default. It doesn't matter if you're writing an HTML page and skipping the BGCOLOR and TEXT tags of a <body>

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Sun VS MS, who's coping who?
Friday, April 09, 2004 2:59 PM

Sun VS MS, who's coping who?I found this VERY interesting post while looking up C#/.Net related T-Shirts (just for kicks). Not that I really study too much into ASP or .Net history but most people assume C# & .Net is a rip off of Sun's work

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Wood vinear computer case
Friday, April 09, 2004 1:25 PM

Wood vinear computer caseVia SlashDot I just saw this. It's a wood vinear computer case. Basically they just put this stuff on top of an alumnium computer case. It looks really sweet, even if it is a bit retro 70s wood style.You can

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Moving on up... to the east side, we finally got a piece of the pie
Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:16 PM

Moving on up... to the east side, we finally got a piece of the pieWell tomarrow I'll be busy moving out of our office as the entire IT team is being relocated to the abonded Executive building.Hopefully I can sneak up to the CEO's office and use his

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Apache is still in the stone age
Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:17 PM

Apache is still in the stone ageDISCLAIMER: Total and utter ranting!Ugh, Apache still lives in the stone age. Why does it still cut off file names when viewing directory lists to a mere 20 characters so the whole screen can be 62 characters.

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Official .Net support for Sun Solaris and SunOS
Monday, April 05, 2004 3:05 PM

Official .Net support for Sun Solaris and SunOSAnybody that's really into .Net knows about the Mono project (which will let .Net run on *NIX systems and obviously, MacOS10) but of course that's all 3rd party open source. Well it seems part of the

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All the April fools news releases
Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:04 PM

All the April fools news releasesI've decided to post every fake news release that I come across today (which should be about 90% of them). I'm not going to post random per-site (aka doesn't appear in the news) gags unless they're really golden.

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