K’s Weblog

In its infinite wisdom, the NHL has decided to allow the fans to select the starting lineup for the All Star Game. This in itself is nothing new, and has been going on for years. However this year, the process is being conducted entirely on-line… As with any first version of software, there [...]

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For several months we’d have an issue from time to time where an IIS 6 Application Pool would go rogue and take over one of our web servers. Invariably we wouldn’t be able to determine which one it was, and would either terminate the process, or run an iisreset to clear up the problem. The biggest [...]

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Tonight, in what should have been a hard-fought, tight-checking, spirited hockey game, the Vancouver Canucks collapsed.  Again.  Averaging barely over 2.1 goals per game, Roberto Luongo has been the key to the Canucks’ limited success so far this year.  However, for the third time in less than a month, they’ve been shut out, and in [...]

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Speaking after being awarded the Copley medal in England last week Prof. Steven Hawking spoke out about the need for mankind to extend its footprint outside the Sol system. His proposed method for making this happen: matter/antimatter annihilation to propel a craft to near-light speeds.  This is the method popularized in the television (and movie) [...]

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For the geek in all of us…
I stumbled on a couple of articles recently pointing out the history of programming languages.  What originally pointed me at this was an article in Nikhil Kothari’s blog.  He pointed to a chart on O’Reilly’s website which listed out the history of programming languages from the 1950’s right through [...]

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