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Y'know how Internet Explorer can prompt you to remember the username and password you entered when logging into a site? Have you ever, for one reason or another, clicked "No" to that prompt, and from then on had to manually type in your password every time you visited that site? I did that...
I've tried one or two code-formatting plugins for Windows Live Writer, but this one from Doug Stockwell is the best so far. Instead of trying to syntax-highlight the code you're pasting using its own highlighter, it just pastes the RTF contents of the clipboard directly into Writer. That means that whatever...
First, let me get this out of the way: It's freakin' huge!!!! The picture quality is outstanding. I thought that such a huge screen would only serve to highlight the inadequacies of the source image, but every channel looks great. Well, every "proper" channel. Which brings me to my next point. Our house...
It amuses me that there are so many articles around the traps on how to block the imminent release of Internet Explorer 7 from being automatically deployed onto PCs on your network. A more secure, easier to use, more standards-compliant version of IE? Oh my god! We can't let that onto our PCs! How...
While I'm stuck here at work, Sal is taking delivery of our new plasma TV. Free installation is part of the deal, so within the next half-hour or so she'll be kicking back taking in the view. I won't even get to see the damn thing for another seven hours or so. :( Rest assured, dear reader, that pictures...
A cool first (well, second if you count the "hello world" post) post from Mitsuru Furuta from Microsoft France about iterating over enum types: Enumerating Enums . If this is an indication of the quality of Mitsu's ensuing posts (he's apparently going to post a bunch of translated posts from his french...
Ok, a couple of little odds-and-ends to blog about from my life in the past week. Firstly, my new TV. I've been saving up for a flat-panel TV now for the better part of the year, and I've been waiting specifically for the new Pioneer PDP-507XDA 127cm plasma. Anyway, it was due out last week so I went...
From scrambled on digg.com : I personally don't think there's a need for the word "atheist". There is no word describing one who does not believe in pixies. It's just common sense....
So I'm still on a bit of a 'full-text search' kick in Sql Server, and I've been thinking about theoretical ways to speed up a search for a substring across an entire table (and multiple columns therein). As you can see in the previous post , right now I'm simply doing a 'LIKE' comparison on the necessary...
So now you know how to split some text into words. Let me give you an example of how I'm putting this into use, with what I like to call a "poor man's full-text search". Yes, it's doing a table-scan every time. Yes, it's way inefficient. But still, it returns results quickly (my tables only...