5 Jul 2008,3:13 am
I love hockey, especially the Sharks. That's the team I grew up with, although I will admit that I do have a picture of myself in a Mighty Ducks sweatshirt. I was young and naive! I have a picture of me at around three years old with SJ Sharkie ...
29 May 2008,5:18 am
The state must admit to illegal activity which led to the deaths of innocent people, the group on the past says.
7 May 2008,5:22 pm
My Dearest Love, I know it has been too long since I last wrote to you. I have many concerns on my heart that I wish for you to know. Most importantly, I want you to know that I greatly long for you to be here with me. I pray I find you soon. I only wish I knew where to look. One of my biggest concerns is that I have not been doing a good enough job preparing myself for you. I feel like I have been wallowing in my loneliness instead of working on finding you. There's the old saying that I should...
20 Apr 2008,5:53 pm
Title: SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET Everyone probably can admit to having a skeleton or two in their closet. via Wren's Nest
18 Apr 2008,12:04 am
more like BAHpollo, and the ARGHpollonian state. Spring finds me trying to live again. I find myself fond of the Brothers Karamazov; by which I mean especially the eponymous characters. I was going to pick a favorite, but I like all three. Dmitri is heroic, Ivan is philosophic, Alyosha is loving. Body/Mind/Soul. In other news, I scrawled wretched poetry in class today. Terrible poetry, but I haven't written any in forever, so it's a marked improvement. " the sun whittles white off the hills, lur...
8 Apr 2008,2:32 pm
I wasn't going to go to Hillary Clinton's rally Sunday morning in Missoula. But my friend Jen wanted to go, and I'll admit, I wanted to be part of this historic event. It's not often we get a chance to see someone who might be our next president in Montana. As I left the house, vivid oranges and purples colored the snow-dappled mountains ringing the eastern edge of the Missoula Valley. Jen and I met for breakfast to sustain ourselves through the long morning, then headed out the rally, which wa...
1 Apr 2008,12:00 am
Since moving to Viet Nam 4 years ago I have enrolled in 3 Vietnamese language courses, 1 in VN and 2 while back in Australia. I also own 4 different self help learning kits, have 5 electronic Viet-English dictionary programs for laptop and Palm Pilot and 2 reasonably large hard copy dictionaries. But I have to admit that, until now, I have not been completely serious about learning the language. However, I decided that I needed to adopt a more positive attitude toward learning Vietnamese if...
27 Mar 2008,11:22 pm
This is a huge turning point . Jim Griffin has been telling everyone to “monetize the anarchy” for essentially the entire decade. This solution was on the table dating back to Napster. The idea has long percolated within the entertainment & tech community ( read: the pholist ). Many, many others contributed to its development, including academics Terry Fisher , Neil Netanel , and Jamie Love (focusing more on a compulsory version), as well as organizations like EFF and the Berkman Ce...
17 Mar 2008,10:50 am
We haven't told Charlie yet that I'm pregnant. A small part of that, I admit, is continuing apprehension; until we've cleared the looming hurdle of our congenital anomalies scan — you know, the holy-Christ-it-has-flippers-fins-and-claws scan — I don't feel comfortable...
7 Jan 2008,7:17 am
I'm slightly confused by Jeremy Clarkson's admission that he was wrong about the safety of publishing his bank details . The Direct Debit Guarantee promises him a full and immediate refund in this situation. If he phones his bank, the money should be back in his account by the time he puts the phone down. I have heard that Barclays Bank are very bad at honouring their obligations under the Direct Debit Guarantee, and one person tells me that's one of the reasons he now banks elsewhere. But that'...
30 Nov 2007,3:54 pm
Yesterday was my last n n birthday, and if you know what that means then you're a huge nerd (like me and Em). If my memory serves, that means today is bilherron.com's 6th birthday. I think my first blog post ever, in typical navel-gazing blog fashion, was a complaint about who forgot to wish me a happy birthday. This year I'm moderately more well-adjusted, so I'm just happy about all the nice emails, myspace comments, calls and text messages I got. Thank you guys! Here's the card I got at work ...
5 Nov 2007,11:20 am
After all of the trouble we went to thinking of a name for our new baby, we ended up picking a name that didn't make the top 1000 in the U.S. but is common enough in certain parts of the world. I'll have to admit I was disappointed today when the health service sent an immunization reminder regarding our son, Nina??! who had a completely different name and birthday than the one my wife and I remember.
30 Oct 2007,11:41 pm
This is to the certain person who posted on the last entry (whom I've made "Friends only" as it should've been, and deleted the comments) Good job on those comments. I can guess who you probably are now. Now, my reply: Maybe you're right, maybe it was terrible to say the things I said about Juny. Though I am very amused that you took the things I said seriously. Welcome to my journal. Welcome to my rantfest, welcome to the place where I will say the most twisted shit you could read. This is the...
20 Oct 2007,5:38 am
Marco Abis has announced the 2007 edition of the Italian Agile Day . I’ve been to the 2006 edition and I have to admit it was great. The talks were all about Scrum, Team management, TDD, ORM and agility, code metrics, distributed projects and agility, code and DB refactoring, XP games, mock objects, agility and Visual Studio Team System, agile web development with Django and more. I hope the 2007 edition wil be even more interesting :-). See you in Bologna on November, the 23rd.
31 Aug 2007,11:06 am
How's your sense of direction? Anyone who knows me very well, knows that my sense of direction isn't all that well developed; I tend to lose my way easily-- thank goodness for Google Maps. But just as I find myself lost geographically on occasions, the same can be said about one's spiritual life. Sometimes we stray in life down a path and we wander, like a sheep, so far that we find ourselves lost. Other times, like the woman who dropped a valuable coin, we find ourselves lost through no real f...
31 Aug 2007,10:14 am
In case any of you have been completely ignoring me for the last month or so... THE HOLD STEADY are playing TONIGHT at the Rescue Rooms. I will be there. So will you if you want to see what the fuss is about. we mix our own mythologies. we push them out through pa systems. we dictate our doxologies and try to get sleeping kids to sit up and listen. i'm not saying we could save you. but we could put you in a place where you could save yourself. if you don't get born again at least you'll get high...
4 Jul 2007,7:00 pm
Everytime I go to the doctors they say there's no such thing as PTLS and that it's all in my head so my family and friends believe them, if these doctors would admit to this, then I wouldn't seem so crazy.
4 Mar 2007,11:12 am
haruspex : Hence my comment above that line, If your program makes heavy use of a sorting routine, you may want to consider implementing a tailored sort function rather than just using qsort(). By no means do I suggest writing your own low-level routines for no reason... but if your program is spending a lot of time sorting, then you might consider writing a tailored sort routine. Obviously this wouldn't make sense if sorting is barely even on the radar as far as time spent in your program. Hop...
21 Apr 2006,9:27 pm
I bought Toni Basil's " Oh, Mickey " off the iTunes Store a minute ago, and I'm not the least bit ashamed to admit it. [78 words in article.]
19 Jul 2004,2:21 pm
So... The big announcement that I hinted at last week is that, as of today, I have assumed the role of. NET developer evangelist with Microsoft, working in the East region. I want to say thanks to all the folks who've helped me develop the skills to get here, particularly my friends at INETA and ASPInsiders . I'm looking forward to helping folks in my new role. Though it may take me some time to get up to speed, feel free to ping me via the Contact link if I can be of assistance. UPDATE: I'm a...
19 Jul 2004,5:59 am
Thanks to Rob who granted me a Gmail account , being a real supporter of Google , and already using Hello , I was initiallly enthusiastic about the Google's take-over of Picasa too of course. The Hello-stuff was better than nothing to upload some pics at my blog although I'm a bit desillusioned about the "take-it-or-leave-it" possibilities of it : some strange code is created on your blogpost and I can't figure out how to tamper it the html-compliant way for layout-reasons (the pics are just pos...
11 Mar 2004,8:00 am
Vetting systems contained "weaknesses" when Ian Huntley was being checked, the chief of Cambridge police admits.
11 Mar 2004,8:00 am
Vetting systems contained "weaknesses" when Ian Huntley was being checked, the chief of Cambridge police admits.
19 May 2003,4:52 pm
Is it Time? 2 weeks ago, I saw Scott McNealy http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_mcnealy.html address a small-ish crowd (less than 500 people) at the annualSIIA Software conference. It was the first time I'd seen him in person and I'll admit, I was hoping to be impressed. Wow! was I not ... aside from some smart (smarmy?) one-liners about the tech industry and his favorite target: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp He talked extensively about how Detroit doesn't ship turn ...