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This week’s race was again out at Fort Steilacoom Park (the first time was a non series race). I think this is going to be my favorite venue as the courses that are put together are fairly challenging and really fun.
This time around was a bit different from what the Rad Racing guys had […]

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[Failed validation view of label/textfield]
[Validation Summary showing accompanying error message.]
I figured I’d share a snippet of code that shows how to make a custom ASP.NET validator that I’ll call a HighlightRangeValidator.
Using this Validation scheme has a three part commitment. The idea here is to […]

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Whole wheat bran bread with banana and fruit-of-your-choice.
Whole wheat bran bread with banana and fruit-of-your-choice.
1.5 c Whole Wheat Flour
1 c Bran flakes
0.5 c Quick oats
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Cinnamon
0.5 c Chopped walnuts
1 Mashed banana
1 […]

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Jeff Dean (google) talked recently at the UW about BigTable.

Data in a single table is internally broken at arbitrary row boundaries to form contiguous regions of data called tablets. These tablets are distributed across a large pool of worker machines. The system is designed to manage several petabytes of data distributed across thousands […]

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A San Franciscan talks about getting off the grid….

From January through November of 2004, my system has generated 4,400 kilowatt hours of electricity. During this period, my home has drawn 2,200 kilowatt hours from the public grid (for total consumption of 6,600 kilowatt hours). My system is currently generating roughly 65 to 70% of the […]

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Some humor for the day (pic) provided by alta

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93rd Tour de France Le Tour 2006: One of the hardest in years

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Abstract: Visual Studio can be one of the programmer’s best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio’s insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rather than augmenting it? This talk […]

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It’s being said that Google is going to be releasing a general purpose online storage service sometime very shortly.
A screenshot has it saying

Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.

This rings of what would happen if […]

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In fact, after spending ten minutes examining Google Maps a bit deeper, we realized that, far from being the product of rocket scientists, the Google Maps interface is actually fairly straight-forward to implement. Perhaps, some might say, easy. Not “same-amount-of-effort-as-a-PHPweb- form” easy, but we were able to implement something a great deal like it in […]

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