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Entries from November 2004

What’s Your Dress Code?

November 28th, 2004 · No Comments

I just found a heinously strange link through Sahil Malik: http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm. This details, in disturbingly exact standards, the dress code for his database consultants.
Let’s walk through a couple examples here:
Tie - Must be conservative, nothing George Bush wouldn’t wear.
Grooming - Protruding nasal hair is prohibited.
No Neanderthal-style single [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Coming Soon

November 27th, 2004 · No Comments


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Tags: iRooster

iRooster 2.1

November 25th, 2004 · No Comments

iRooster 2.1 is coming, and it’s going to be really friggin’ cool. I wasn’t intending to make my next release a big deal (it was just going to be 2.0.4), but I was seized by a strong desire to implement a feature…which lead itself to another feature, and now I’m just cleaning things up and [...]

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Halo 2

November 14th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Halo 2 is fucking awesome. There’s really no other way I can describe it than that. I only have a few gripes:
1. The ending. I have to wait another 3 years or so to find out what happens after this. Damn it.
2. Matchmaking seems to take forever. Hopefully, the good guys [...]

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Tags: Video Games