Monthly Archives: July 2008

“Gullifty’s” burns!

By docwhat | Published: 2008-07-28
Aaah!  There was a fire at Gullifty’s early Sunday morning!  I saw the borded up front door on the way into work this morning. Gullifty’s is known for it’s desserts and Jazz, but I have used it most for good Bloody Marys and for being open late.
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XPath has a lousy equality operator

By docwhat | Published: 2008-07-23
I just (re-)discovered this bit of stupidity in XPath/XSL. The equal operator will demote node-sets, result-trees, etc. into to strings when compared with a string. Check out this example:
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36 Hours in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com

By docwhat | Published: 2008-07-22
The New York Times has published a good list of fun things to do in Pittsburgh:36 Hours in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com. When I visited Pittsburgh for a job interview in the summery of 2004 it seemed like everyone was surprised I wanted to see what Pittsburgh had to offer.  The hotels staff (at the downtown [...]
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Designed For Reliability

By docwhat | Published: 2008-07-22
I used to work for Tandem.  These computers were amazing and the only thing that’d take them down was human error… Here’s a “Daily WTF” about the Tandem computers. The comments are fun, too: Designed For Reliability Ciao! P.S. Yes, I’m having fun with the “Press This” feature in Wordpress 2.6.
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Dr. Horrible

By docwhat | Published: 2008-07-16
For those that are fans of Joss Whedon, he has started releasing his mini/limited-time/videopod/series, “Dr. Horrible’s sing-along blog“.
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