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Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:09 AM

Wow! I can't believe I found this code...

Going through a bunch of old floppy disks and copying the files to my home server in an effort to get rid of these things, I happened across a bit of source code from WAAAAAAAAAY back. (March 7th, 1990 to be precise.) For a few years around 1990, a friend
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:08 PM

The *new* Star Trek

Before seeing the movie, back when information regarding some of the story elements starting coming out, I was extremely concerned regarding the inclusion of yet another "temporal anomaly" being used to spark the story line. It's not that
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Friday, July 06, 2007 7:54 PM

A "Secret" Movie

So I saw Transformers the other day. It was a pretty decent movie except the director bought into the ill conceived idea that shaking the camera all around would somehow make the action scenes more intense. I mean it's supposed to be a special effects
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Friday, September 15, 2006 4:48 PM

Lot's o' stuff...

Man, I've been busy, busy, busy... XboxFriends If you haven't taken a look at XboxFriends lately and your an Xbox Live gamer, you really should take the time to do so. The version releases have stabilized somewhat and all systems seem to be pretty good
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Friday, May 26, 2006 11:19 PM

My Desk

Not sure that anyone really cares, but what the hell, here's a picture of my workspace at the house...
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Friday, May 26, 2006 11:07 PM

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach

While out in L.A. the weekend before last (and yes, I didn't realize that that weekend happened to also be the weekend of E3) training with the legendary Larry Hartsell (a student of Bruce Lee, Dan Inosanto and Ed Parker), I ran into someone rather interesting
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:45 PM

The "Big Bad Wolf" visited me...

Yeah, the Big Bad Wolf came by my house late last night (errr... really early this morning) and tried to blow my house down. The house is still standing since this little piggy had a house of brick. ;-) Though I need to call a roofer as the shingles on
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:51 PM

Where Am I?

So that people can have an opportunity to meet me in person ( man, does that sound vain or what? ), I've added a ' meet cory smith ' link to the top navigation. I'll make every attempt to keep that up to date, so if you happen to be attending one of these
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:40 PM

Missed working for Google by 3 months...

... and I'm really not all that upset. A little over a year ago, the radio automation software company I worked for was acquired by dMarc, a small startup focused on delivering advertising to radio stations through piggy-backing upon the radio automation
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Monday, January 09, 2006 6:39 PM

Holidays are over, back to work (as if it ever stopped)...

On top of it being the holidays, work, interacting with family, buying gifts, cooking turkey and the occasional Xbox 360 gaming session, I've been extremely busy working out the kinks with a new side project that is really starting to take shape. Of course,
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 1:54 AM

Semper Fidelis or "SEMPER FI!"

“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem“ -- Ronald Reagan Many people that know me think that I'm anti-establishment and against “the man” by
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:30 PM

Reflecting on the past, Looking forward to the future...

These past couple of months have been extremely busy for me. With work and extra-workular (yeah, I just made that up) activities, my postings here has taken a bit of a hit. [Insert obligatory sentense here about how I'm going to get back to blogging on
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Saturday, April 23, 2005 4:51 PM

Pop Quiz

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Saturday, February 07, 2004 5:54 PM

Copyrights and Sample Usage [RANT]

Why is it that you see the following notice in a lot of samples? // THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY // KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE // IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:40 PM

Ed Kaim Experiment #1

OK, Ed, I'll participate in your little experiment ;-) "I neither agree nor disagree with Ed Kaim that blogging is overhyped, but I still want to fit in and will therefore link to Visual Studio's Hosted Experience at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tryit/
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