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The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Monthly Archives: December 2007

links for 2007-12-29

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Ruby, Leopard and gems A couple of notes about building native gems on leopard (tags: Leopard postgresql mysql ruby osx)

Happy Holidays

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I wanted to wish all my family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2007 has been a good year for us and here’s looking forward to an even better 2008.  

Vegas Baby!

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Back in August, knowing that Maggie would be graduating this semester, we planned a celebration trip to Las Vegas. This past weekend Maggie graduated with a degree in English and on Sunday we left for Sin City. We were already booked into a pretty nice hotel, The Wynn Las Vegas, and when we went to […]

links for 2007-12-15

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A strange photo of camels in the desert | Frostfirezoo.com (tags: Photos neat trickery)

links for 2007-12-14

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Introducing RunAway Nice looking Nike+ shoe adapter (tags: Nike+) Ion3 license violation My vote for thread of the year. (tags: Software Ports BSD Retarded)

links for 2007-12-13

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Best Buy at Improv Everywhere Improv troop wear’s blue polos to a best buy and causes a “scene” (tags: Funny imp bestbuy Humor prank improveverywhere)

links for 2007-12-11

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glumbert – Intro to Idiocracy The first couple of minutes of Idiocracy. I think it says a lot just in those few minutes. (tags: Movies social commentary)

links for 2007-12-08

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Pure Mac: Software for Macintosh Site containing various categories of Mac software with links to them (tags: Mac Apple OSX software) crazybob.org: Introduction to Guice Video (Redux) Crazy Bob’s Guice Talk (tags: Programming Guice java dependency google framework) Git – a Talk by Randal Schwartz (tags: google Programming software versioncontrol scm techtalk)

links for 2007-12-07

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Mercurial – Mercurial Mercurial home page (tags: mercurial) Devolutions – C# to VB.NET how to do things in VB.NET that you know how to do in C# (tags: C# VB.NET) Mercurial Guide (tags: Mercurial) Distributed revision control with Mercurial Unofficial Mercurcial manual (tags: Mercurial) NWS – National Mosaic Radar Image: Full Resolution Loop Great radar […]

Getting a handle on your Blog reading

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If you’re like me, you’ve subscribed to a ton of Blog feeds. I was up to around 200 until I read a friend of mine Will’s post about consuming blogs. That post has changed my blog reading life. I went from having hundred’s of unread posts when I got home to my Newsreader, to maybe […]

The Human Calendar

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The Human Calendar is pretty cool. It took me a minute to “get it” that all the other people in the calendar were looking at today’s date. Pretty neat.

My Dallas Stars thoughts

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Well, the NHL season is a little over a quarter of the way complete. So far, the Stars have been very inconsistent ( except for that nice 6 game winning streak last week ). They started the season very uneven and lost some real heartbreakers. The most brutal of which was the game against the […]