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Archive for May, 2007

J & D Tree Pros Recommendation

Friday, May 25th, 2007

J & D Tree Pros, Inc - Serving Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Just had these guys remove 5 Pine trees and 1 Elm tree and they did a great job.  Very professional, friendly and on time.  Trees came out like nothing using a big crane.  Here are a few shots of the process:

Only incident was [...]

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Cycling, Sports and Drugs

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Here’s a thought on ending doping, etc. in sports, especially cycling and other “team” sports that feature individual performances:
If anyone on the team gets caught, the whole team is punished just the same as the individual.  Peer pressure is making the individuals do the drugs in the first place, peer pressure will make them [...]

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Maven 2 Fun

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Here’s a Maven tip that has helped me a few times: If things are failing and you can’t figure out why, try deleting your local repository and starting fresh with a new set of downloads. This has saved the day for me during at least 3 different releases that weren’t going through. [...]

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ABC News: New Pill Means Full Stop for Periods

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

ABC News: New Pill Means Full Stop for Periods
OK, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that within the next 10 years this “miracle” pill gets pulled because it is shown to fuel breast (and other) cancer just like the exact same drugs do in women who take them after menopause.
I’m [...]

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Google the Monopoly?

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

The European Union has been going after Apple over the iPod, claiming it is a monopoly because it owns some 60+ percent of the market.  This got me wondering about what other companies own 60+ % of the market in the software industry.  They have already taken on Microsoft, so that leaves me with [...]

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Open Source and Documentation

Monday, May 21st, 2007

So the running joke in open source is that anytime you need to know how something works, you should just go look at the code.  Thus, the documentation in the large majority of open source projects really sucks.  Now, I have been a long time user and contributer to open source and have always [...]

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