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by ajtaylor 16y ago
Or as my Dad often told me "Don't count your chickens before they hatch". This was a very important lesson for me. Don't spend money counting on "the sure thing" that is going to pay off, because often it never appears.
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by ajtaylor 16y ago
Wow, thank you for your insight! Now I understand why you should always get the best and smartest lawyers you can possibly afford, even if you don't think you'll need all their expertise. These two parties were practically made for each oth
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by ajtaylor 16y ago
FYI when I clicked the "Sign Up" button on the plans page, Chrome gave me the "invalid secure certificate" warning. I love the idea though. Any chance you'll include Ireland?
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Thanks for the pointer to jQuery Layout! It looks very similar to extJS' layouts.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
I really, really want to use Wordpress as a bloging platform, but the constant hacks / security issues have given me a lot of pause. Can anyone recommend an alternative, hopefully one with a bit better track record?
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
"With all inlet doors tightly shut, at 3.24 Mach, the J-58s are more like ramjets now, gulping 100,000 cubic feet of air per second." Wow... what an awesome job to be able to fly one of these birds! I had a friend in Boston who first flew f
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
[OT: that's my old Bishop quoted in the article. :-) I miss Boston sometimes...] I think companies are absolutely aware of much easier it is to get people to spend $10-20/month on a subscription where if the consumer had to pay all up front
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Watching those videos makes it feel like we lost Challenger just yesterday. :-(
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
I really dislike making phone calls. I don't have time to perfect my thoughts as I do when writing them out. I forget questions I wanted to ask. And I often talk too fast and thus stumble over my words. Email is so much better.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Ummm, you just described half my married life! :-) Perhaps I should take a hint...
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
As a US expat in Ireland, I too love the use of muppet. It's deadly!
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Semi-related: about a week after I had moved to Dublin from the US I made an offhand remark in a shop about being in the UK and was very quickly corrected. I quickly learned my lesson and have moved on to other cultural mistakes. :-)
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Favorite quote: Nobody in IT should ever say, "You're my customer and my job is to make sure you're satisfied," or ask, "What do you want me to do?" Instead, they should say, "My job is to help you and the company succeed," followed by "Sho
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
I wanted the octopus to eat the narrator instead of the shark! Where's David Attenborough when you need him?
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Good luck in Ireland. You may have noticed we're in a bit of a recession here (note heavy sarcasm)... I'd wager that you'd have a difficult time finding a job in Ireland. Course both Google and Amazon have offices here so don't let me disco
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
My wife and I love Carcassonne! One of it's big points is that we can play with only 2 players. Plus the infinite possible arrangements of the board means no two games are ever alike. :-) The worst feeling in the world is when someone finag
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Upvoted for the reverse proxy quote. :-)
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
I had the pleasure of working with John a few years ago in Boston. Very smart guy. A bit quirky, but aren't we all in some way? :-) His reviews have always been of special interest to me because he peers into the cracks that most reviewers
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Just there for YAPC::EU last week. Lovely city, I just wish I had had more time to explore it. :-(
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
I'm in Dublin as well.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
They're gone now. :-(
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Very cool interface! I love the 3D effects.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
What a fabulous little tool! Thanks for the link.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Thanks for the link. These are great mixes. I signed up for a cloudsound account. :-) I find that words distract me - I want to sing! - so techno/trance/dance/whatever is great for me to code by because it's mostly repeated rhythm.
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
Hear, hear! I get flyers in my door all the time talking about "fast broadband" where fast == 1-3Mb. I'm moving soon and will be switching to NTL (cable) and getting 10Mb/1Mb for less money. Death to Eircom and their €26/mo line rental char
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by ajtaylor 17y ago
That was fast. I downloaded the app (which mostly looks like a frontend to OpenVPN) for OS X. Hulu then told me when I tried to watch a video that my IP address is from a known anonymizer and to turn it off or go away. :-( Time to figure ou
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by ajtaylor 18y ago
Note that the article is talking about _Northern_ Ireland, not the Republic. There's a VERY large difference to the people here. :-) As a new resident of Dublin I'm very interested to see if the transatlantic cable mentioned makes a differe
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by ajtaylor 18y ago
Thanks for the pointer to the site. My wife (a CIA-trained chef) would definitely tell me the old name was 'geeky', but probably love the recipes based on my quick look through the site. Very nice design, and fabulous pictures. Who doesn't