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9 steps for playing "Guitar Hero" at parties

April 21st, 2008 — 07:13 am
  1. Watch others play and gather the nerve to try yourself
  2. Wait for an opening and take the guitar, pretending you did it just because there was no one else to take it
  3. Press the 5 colored buttons according to the sequence that appears on the screen, together with the black button at the base of the guitar
  4. Play until you manage to complete an entire song (or you feel like your arms are about to fall off)
  5. Tell others of your huge success
  6. Let someone else play
  7. Watch that someone switches to “expert” level and complete the song with 99% success
  8. Humbly walk away
  9. Repeat steps 1-8

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If Search Engines Where Girls

February 27th, 2008 — 08:26 pm

From the SEO article “On-page SEO for small Companies“:

  • Google is the bombshell who everyone drools over. She knows this and lords it over everyone. You’ve really got to work to get Google’s trust. She also has a weird fascination with blogging.
  • Yahoo is wild and erratic.
  • MSN is the world’s cheapest date, who will practically faint if you show any interest in her at all.

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Don’t try this at work

February 15th, 2008 — 01:53 am

A friend sent me the following code, meant to do simple string comparison for a standard password changing dialog:


           char buf[256]

            test_pass = 0;            for (i = 0; i < strlen(buf); ++i)            {                test_pass ^= (unsigned long)buf[i] << (i%4)*8;                test_pass = test_pass << (i%4)*8  test_pass >> (32 - (i%4)*8);            }

            sscanf(g_config.m_pPassword, "%08X", &old_pass);            if (test_pass == old_pass)            {                // Get new password                GetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT_NEW_PASS, buf, 255);

                test_pass = 0;                for (i = 0; i < strlen(buf); ++i)                {                    test_pass ^= (unsigned long)buf[i] << (i%4)*8;                    test_pass = test_pass << (i%4)*8  test_pass >> (32 - (i%4)*8);                }

                // Check configmation                GetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT_NEW_PASS2, buf, 255);

                test_pass2 = 0;                for (i = 0; i < strlen(buf); ++i)                {                    test_pass2 ^= (unsigned long)buf[i] << (i%4)*8;                    test_pass2 = test_pass2 << (i%4)*8  test_pass2 >> (32 - (i%4)*8);                }

                if (test_pass != test_pass2)

        {            MsgBox(".....");            EndDailog(1)

        }        sprintf(buf,"%08",test_pass);    }

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Light reading at the traffic light

November 29th, 2007 — 10:59 pm

In case you were wondering, the book in the picture is the bible.

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From the people who brought you "Catastrophic Error"

November 18th, 2007 — 02:33 am

Now comes another great error dialog:
The Operation completed successfully” error dialog.

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Heroes in Microsoft?

November 3rd, 2007 — 02:18 pm
I was just erasing promotion mail from my mailbox when I noticed the photo:

I’m not 100% sure, but this looks a lot like James Kyson Lee (”Ando”) from “Heroes“.

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Play online role playing and get your chores done

July 31st, 2007 — 01:13 pm

The new Chore Wars site allows you to define a character and gain role-playing experience points from doing household chores (cleaning, taking out the trash, etc)

The site was created by freelance web developer Kevan Davis and with the artwork of Craig J Spearing (which has a WoW feel).
The revenue model seem to be both ads and paid “Gold accounts”.

Here is a quote from the testimonials page:
Our 14 year old son is now actively looking for things to do (we’ve linked xp points and gold pieces to pocket money) and he even got a friend involved!”

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