Monthly Archives: April 2005

U2

Posted on April 26, 2005 by jvert

My wife & I saw U2 last night at Key Arena. What a great & powerful show! Thanks to the modern miracle of eBay we had great seats, six rows back of the soundboard. I go way back with U2. … Continue reading →

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and you thought Perl was obscure…

Posted on April 18, 2005 by jvert

Fun vbscript fact for today foo(bar) and set x = foo(bar) actually call foo differently. The first one passes ‘bar’ by value, the second one passes it byref. What kind of crazed lunatic thought this language up? Whoever it is, … Continue reading →

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Schoolhouse Rock meets magnetic physics

Posted on April 18, 2005 by jvert

Another ad that is infinitely better than anything Microsoft is putting out. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html not quite as funny as the John Cleese one I blogged earlier, but pretty amusing…

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Hooray for Messenger 7!

Posted on April 7, 2005 by jvert

Props to the Messenger team, particularly all those ex-threedegrees folks who did the heavy lifting to get this thing shipped and bring WINKS to the entire world!

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