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Well the book said that the ascension for this hike was only about 300m but I think the book was written by dirty filthy liars. Read the rest of this entry »

The wife said “if you make it happen we’ll go”; well I made it happen… Read the rest of this entry »

More developer humor, you decide… Read the rest of this entry »

Got this from a friend….made me laugh. Don’t know the source but kudos to the author. Read the rest of this entry »

We had some challenges and near drownings (exaggeration) trying to ford the Highwood River but once we got going it was beautiful. I think we ended up walking about 9km and I had to ford the river about seven times (carrying kids across) while Shareen forded a measly four (to find a lost camera on the other side). Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction

A Trie (pronounce “try”) is a tree-based data structure in order to support fast pattern matching. The “trie” comes from the word “retrieval”.

This structure is particularly useful for any application requiring prefix based (read “starts with”) pattern matching.A good example is any kind of application where we let the user type and quickly come up with a list of words starting with what the user typed in. Read the rest of this entry »

This book was a very good read but also an eye opener.I guess at my age I’m still naive enough to think that people have a certain inane empathy towards other human beings in this world.

This appears to be true when you see the world come together to try and help victims of the Tsunami in Asia, or of the hurricanes that devastated New Orleans.

But it chills my blood to read about the inhumanity that is purposely developed in other human beings for the purpose of taking the life of other human beings. Read the rest of this entry »

I just bought myself a new budget server and was having no end of grief trying to straighten out the integrated video on the el-cheapo-grande motherboard (Asus K8S-MX). 

After hours of poking, prodding, loading and unloading and copious amounts of cussing I finally called upon a friend of mine who knows a lot more about computers that I ever will.

He gave me a few pointers and within fifteen minutes I had all my issues resolved.

If you’re having PC trouble save yourself the time and aggravation and look Tom up at Save the PC.

This is a true story and not a cheap promotional effort.

Well I don’t get to win that often but I finally did win something that doesn’t depend on pure dumb luck (or at least I like to think so). WOXY.com (www.woxy.com) ran a “So you wanna be a DJ” contest and I submited a playlist. Read the rest of this entry »

This book was of special interest to me as our son is autistic. You’d thing that after three years of living with an autistic I’d know more but this book still managed to open my eyes. Read the rest of this entry »