Tim's Bits and Pieces

Missed last weeks update, so here's the last two weeks instead. My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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We where talking about merging today and one of my co-workers pointed out that some of the advantages of Distributed Revision Control Systems (DRCS), are actually more of a case of "distributed rcs rules because I never read the manual for svn and drcs is complex enough that it forced me to read the manual". For example Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) writes about Mercurial:

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I finished my second day of the two day "Apply First Aid" course yesterday, and among the things we looked at was stings and bites. The Irukandji jellyfish has the normal "Headaches", "Back pain", "Nausea", etc symptoms, but then at the end of the list you have "Feeling of impending doom." I love Australian critters, not only will they put you in the hospital in agonising pain, but they will also give you feelings of impending doom. The treatment is fairly interesting too: "Anaesthesia and reassurance". Yep, the only thing they can do for you is give you some pain killers and tell you your not going to die (probably correct, it's only known to have killed a couple of people, but stings hundreds every year)

My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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Professor Proposes Laws Against Insecure Computers:

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A song about Internet Explorer. I don't actually have to develop for IE, but whenever a customer finds a bug before our testing team I'm the first to hear about it.An interesting thing I've observed from these various bug reports is that nearly every display bug happens in only one specific browser; can you guess which one?

My ten goals, and what progress I've made:

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