Monthly Archives: January 2006

IE7 Beta Still Can’t Handle Port Numbers

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Joey Gibson

I discovered today that Microsoft had released a public beta of IE7 so I decided to have a look. It only runs on XPsp2, so I applied sp2 to an XP image running under VMWare, which only took an hour … Continue reading →

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Is the State of the Union Address Still Relevant?

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Alito: Confirmed!

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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01/30/2006 Scores

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Joey Gibson

I was really worried about game 1, but it improved. Game 2 was good and so was game 3. Scores: 01/30/2006 Game 1 129 Game 2 160 Game 3 147

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01/16/2006 Scores

Posted on January 17, 2006 by Joey Gibson

I don’t know what happened, but last night was really bad. Scores: 01/16/2006 Game 1 116 Game 2 127 Game 3 135

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01/09/2006 Scores

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Joey Gibson

The league took two weeks off for Christmas, so this was our first night back in three weeks. I did a lot better than I was expecting. Scores: 01/09/2006 Game 1 157 Game 2 158 Game 3 147

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Other Numbers of the Beast

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Joey Gibson

Everyone knows that 666 is, according to the Bible, the number of the beast. But this list of other numbers of the beast cracked me up. My favorites $769.95 — Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul … Continue reading →

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Strange Obi-Wan Error

Posted on January 4, 2006 by Joey Gibson

I was doing some JDBC today and I forgot that column indexes are 1-based instead of 0-based. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong since the exception message I kept getting was java.sql.SQLException: Column Index out … Continue reading →

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