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So many open 3s missed by Miami in the first half. Didn't really like the 3 taken by wade in crunch time but he does that when he is having a bad game. Too bad the Bulls have the kryptonite to Miami's D... The Goatbinson.

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Of all the mobile games I have bought so far none of them have this useful feature. This mode would be similar to private browsing, progress is not saved and the user gets to start from the very beginning. Guest mode would be a great way of using your existing customer base to market to potential customers. I think the worst victim of this is Plants vs Zombies which does not even allow the user to play levels that were already completed. How am I supposed to let someone try this game?

If you are trying to write an http handler in ASP.Net MVC and Response.SetMaxAge is not being passed in the response header, you need to first call Response.SetSlidingExpiration(true) first. Here is the code I use.

response.Cache.SetSlidingExpiration(true);
response.Cache.SetMaxAge(TimeSpan.FromDays(1));

I still don't get #twitter. Who wants to write short updates? #smh

I learned about dailymile from reddit. It keeps track of almost any exercise, has challenges to keep you motivated, and gives you daily/weekly/monthly summaries. Also has the usual social networking stuff if you want to keep track of friends. Best of all, it is free.

Got this new bicycle a few months ago, my first road bike. Trek 2.3 - aluminum frame with full Shimano 105 drivetrain. Rides very nice. Hoping to do a 100 mile ride sometime in the future.

This little turtle got caught by a gator. Wanted to help him but didn't want to mess with the balance of nature. After we rode off he pulled him down into the water.

U mirin'?

Saw this this little guy in the everglades while riding. He started to kick sand when he saw us, not sure if he was digging a hole or protecting his territory.

After too many years of not riding a group of us started doing 15 mile rides on the weekend (need more exercise). Felt good but sore. Seeing that we all had Walmart bought mountain bikes, one person upgraded to a nice brand name hybrid (road/light trail). Like a sheep, I followed the lead and I have one coming in this weekend (a little cheaper than my friend's). Cost me 650 bones. Feels bad man, but at least the economy is stimulated.

Here it is, the 2010 Specialized Crosstrail Elite

With bigger hard drives backup becomes more important because of the amount of data we keep on our computers. I started using Sugar Sync to backup my Subversion repository but I think I need something that can store a ton of data for my pictures, video, etc. This is where Drobo comes in, specifically the Drobo FS. This model is a 5 disk gigabit ethernet network store which uses a technology called BeyondRAID. Unlike regular RAID you can add, remove and replace disks without reconfiguring the device. You can also switch from 1 to 2 disk redundancy on the fly, assuming you have enough free space.  On top of that you can mix and match drive sizes without the storage penalty of regular RAID, and if you are already at the 5 disk maximum, swap out your smallest disk for a larger one. It is kind of pricy at over $500 but I need to have a complete backup strategy going.

Happened to me in 2007, stolen from my driveway overnight.

2000 Acura Integra GS-R
2000-2007 RIP
Feels bad man.

Writing emails may never be the same.

Dammit I got my copy while I am at work with 3.5 (about three fiddy) hours to go. Gonna be a long work day.

So I recently opened a checking account at Chase. On the brochure is their new envelope-less ATMs (my Bank of America has had them for a couple years). To activate my debit card I am required to make an ATM transaction or call a number and refuse a few services they try to sell me. So I took a check, enter my card, my pin, the check and boom. CHECK NOT RECOGNISED. WTF? It was a printed check, not handwritten. Tried again, same outcome. Tried a third time, REJECTED. No way to override the system.

Now I have to wait until Saturday because I work almost the same hours as the bank. I actually never had this problem at Bank of America. Sucks brahs.

Update: It seems that this problem was not an isolated case and they are waiting for the company to update the software in the ATMs.

Sweet, I knew my silverlight development skills would be useful for something. Hopefully this will also increase the number of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) windows application. Get to work developers!

Silverlight

A dog's struggle with cancer was put to an end, video shows his last minutes. I love dogs.

Video

Women should stay in the kitchen?

There's this feature I just found out in Windows 7. If you move your mouse to the top of the window until you get the resize icon, if you double click it will fill the screen verically. Do it again to return to the original size.