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On Deadlines, Annoying
It's bad to have one deadline looming. It's worse to have two deadlines looming. It's even worse still to have two deadlines looming on the same day in vastly different areas of your job description. That has been my life for the last couple...
Posted: Mar 27 2008, 11:12 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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Nearly a Year
I just realized that I've been blogging on this site for almost a year ( link to my first post ). It doesn't really feel like its been that long. But maybe that's because I keep taking weeks-long hiatuses from posting ;)
Posted: Mar 14 2008, 10:43 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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How to Waste Time
The original timewaster I've used: Desktop Tower Defense The newer one: Flash Element TD
Posted: Feb 07 2008, 06:19 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Packing for Dummies
If this book exists, I need it. I am terrible at packing. I don't know what it is. I always bring clothes I won't need and inevitably forget something I will need. I make lists, I start packing early. It doesn't help. Oh well. I've survived...
Posted: Dec 28 2007, 11:23 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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Slow Holiday Season
Blogging will be slow around here over the holidays. I was in Richmond/Fredericksburg with family the last few days for Christmas... and in 2 days I'm leaving for Jacksonville for New Yeras and the Gator Bowl. So don't expect much. After the New...
Posted: Dec 26 2007, 03:35 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Mental Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
I don't know if that's the right term for this scenario, but... I've often been told that the more you worry about certain things or freak out about them (generally the future of them), instead of just living in the present, the more likely...
Posted: Oct 17 2007, 04:56 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Test Video Post
Just testing adding a video to this post. Using a funny video that Tiki sent me. Format: wmv Duration: --:--
Posted: Aug 07 2007, 02:33 PM by tlmii | with 47 comment(s)
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Tiki Starts Blogging
I managed to bug Tiki (a friend from college, not Tiki Barber) into blogging and using my site for it. We spend enough time talking about UVA sports that I figured it'd be good for him to write some of it down from time to time. He knows most sports...
Posted: Jul 25 2007, 09:31 PM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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"Not Disagreeing" and "Agreeing" are Two Different Things
Raymond Chen's blog oldnewthing is one of my favorites. My work copy of Outlook 2007 pulls down his posts every day and I read them religiously. One of his posts today struck me as interesting just because of how it pertained to my blog post I had just...
Posted: Jul 24 2007, 11:50 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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Seeing What You Want to See
Over the last few days I've had some discussions with some friends about a situation we are involved in. The specific scenario is not important, but many of you will recognize the general one: Person A has an agenda. Person A views Person B as a threat...
Posted: Jul 24 2007, 11:17 AM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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The Senate weighs in on dogfighting
Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) gave a stirring 20 minute speech to the senate today, nearly breaking down in tears as he talked about the atrocities of dogfighting. "How dastardly!" he said. "...simply barbarc. Barbaric. Barbaric! Barbaric!!" he...
Programmer's Block, Part IV
Since it had been a while since my last post , I thought I'd just drop a quick note to let everyone know why. First, and most importantly - I've gotten over my Programmer's Block .I've churned out more usable, working, solid code in the last 72 hours...
Posted: May 09 2007, 03:03 PM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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Programmer's Block, Part III
Well, as I mentioned yesterday , I had a good opportunity for most of the day yesterday to test out the theories presented in Part I of this series. I'm more or less doing the same thing today - though I expect to be here for a longer straight period...
Posted: May 06 2007, 02:03 PM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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Programmer's Block, Part II
Well, I had every intention of trying out the ideas I mentioned a couple days ago while I was at the office yesterday. Unfortunately (fortunately?) there was so much other stuff going on that I never really had a chance to sit down to it. But here I am...
Posted: May 05 2007, 12:18 PM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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Programmer's Block
For the last... who knows how long... I've been struggling to get work done on a project I'm doing at the office. It's not that I can't do any work - I have no problem picking up tasks and getting them done. In fact, it seems like I go after those sort...
Posted: May 03 2007, 10:37 PM by tlmii | with 3 comment(s)
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