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I added a facebook like button to a few sites last night, and then noticed something curious - big horizontal scroll bars that weren't there before. It turns out that the Facebook javascript inserts some buggy code into the fb-root div - it creates
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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better. "Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge
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I have to write this down, it is totally bizarre. A colleague come to me to ask why F5 wouldnt build his project any more. Sure enough, pressing F5 showed the File/Open dialog, but Debug/Start on the menu worked perfectly. The green arrow toolbar button
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Here at my current gig at Lamps Plus I've been hearing more and more about ReSharper , and a couple days ago my license key arrived via email. Hard to believe it's been out since 2004 and I have never even seen it before, but I guess you don't
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I'm a sentimental sonuvabitch, and love listening to late fifties/early sixties music, pretending it was 1962 and wondering why there aren't any DJ's like Wolfman Jack any more. So, tonight the setting was perfect. All it needed was Tara sitting
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A week later, I'm sitting at a different desk now, in my own 1 bedroom apartment. Bizarrely, after driving all over the surrounding cities looking at cheap apartments I ended up 100 yards from my hotel. The first week of work was the same as any first
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I'm here, sitting in my room on Sherman and DeSoto. As the other Arquette sister says in Pulp Fiction, this is trippy. The drive was unreal. It took, as the maps said it would, 3 days of hard driving. Day 1 I didn't leave until 9:30, so didn't
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A day in Monterey and Carmel today. This morning we went whale watching and got close to a couple of 80ft blue whales and some humpack whales. Pretty cool and the weather was perfect - calm and 75f. We then drove 17 mile drive to Carmel via Pebble Beach
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Really it's Day 16 to me, but strictly speaking it is after midnight, so very early on the 27th. I'm in the air now, flying with Tara on our 5 day vacation to California. The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of working mornings for StomperNet
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The in-laws arrived for a 4 week stay on Thursday, Friday was heads down for a big (but internal) launch at StomperNet and Saturday was Tara's 40th birthday! The worlds largest dumpster (30 yards/5 tons) was also delivered in the morning as a special
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Ok, that's done. Booked . One less (large and looming) thing to think about. Priceline did the deed at about 2/3 price of the public rate.
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I wouldn't say it was exactly perfectly going to plan, but we're close. Tara's parents arrive tomorrow so Bathroom 1 had to be done. And after a long evening we're almost there. Door frame installed, toilet in, cabinet in, sink and faucets
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I ache this morning. Over the weekend I worked 20 hours in our bathroom, taking out everything - a wall, all sheetrock, a tiled shower, cabinets, sinks, mirrors and lights. Then I did some studwork, re-wired the lights and outlets and got it ready for
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"Let's go to lunch", Tara says, "and we'll pop into Lowes and pick up a few things." Quizno's was good, then came Lowes. We need some more cement board for the shower and floor in master bathroom, and we need to "order
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Remember this : door frames are not made to be easily removable. Removing all the sheetrock in bathroom 1 meant removing the door frame - which is coated in a finish that we dont have, so is effectively irreplaceable. Usually a 280lb guy and a crowbar
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