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Category Archives: Pretty Darn Useless
No PC should be without it
Watch and you’ll never get this five minutes of your life back. Consider yourself warned.
Posted in Marketing, MS-DOS, Pretty Darn Useless
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Just imagine if it was an iPad instead of a camera
If that was the case he wouldn’t have stopped to get the spear instead. Although, upon reflection, now the octopus is armed (Ha! Get it? ARMED! Octopus. I need to take this act on the road) he can steal anything … Continue reading
Posted in Pretty Darn Useless, Unbelievable
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How debugging Java taught me about professional anvil shooting
Today I decided to look a into a bug we encountered when using the Sun Java JRE 1.6 on certain distributions of Linux. When we first found the defect it became pretty clear that something somewhere had changed between JDK … Continue reading
Posted in Explosions, Pretty Darn Useless
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Having your world turned upside down by punctuation
Man did I start something today. So I’ve been working on an article that is due in a week or so and the first draft got reviewed today. One of the first comments in the Word document read like this: … Continue reading
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Presentation for the best/worst fake website ever
After passing this along to at least three different people I’ve decided to post it here. That Merlin Mann makes me laugh.
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One man’s Twitter journey to fix iPhoto, plus Imperial IKEA
The funny thing about writing a blog but not administering the blog is that sometimes you login and notice that WordPress is all different. It’s kind of like coming home finding that someone has redecorated your house. You leave and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Pretty Darn Useless
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140 characters of creative lunchmeat
There was an article on 43folders the other day that talked about the value of constraints on creativity. The idea was that the best stuff comes from situations where you really have to stretch the intellect due to having to … Continue reading
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The one where the zombie blog gave an update and drank a Grape Crush
So I get this email from my friend Sean: “You going to put up a status update on the nose and/or the wife’s leg/ankle/whatever it was that got blown out during her fall? Simply having a baby doesn’t relieve you … Continue reading
Posted in Basketball, Pretty Darn Useless
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To Blog or not to Blog
A while back Jonathan asked to be a guest poster on the blog. I’m not sure why, but he was passionate about it so I figured why not. Thus I now I have a Jay Leno/Joan Rivers to my Johnny … Continue reading
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What the heck do you do anyway?
People ask me what I do a lot. Most of the time I don’t really have a good answer. When I was developing full time it was easy. I would just say, “I’m a software engineer/developer/programmer/whatever” and wait for the … Continue reading
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