From the monthly archives:

December 2006

I am … Venom?

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, December 31, 2006

I saw that Jason Calacanis posted his Which Super Villain Are You results, so I figured since I did the super hero thing I might as well post these as well.

Your results:
You are Venom

Venom
60%
Apocalypse
56%
Dr. Doom
56%
Two-Face
56%
Lex Luthor
51%
Magneto
50%
Dark Phoenix
47%
Green Goblin
44%
Juggernaut
44%
Catwoman
41%
Mr. Freeze
35%
Kingpin
33%
The Joker
31%
Riddler
28%
Poison Ivy
18%
Mystique
12%
Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.


Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

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Movies: Rocky Balboa

December 30, 2006

Yesterday the family went to the movies. Normally the way this works is that Jonna and I will go see one movie, and the three kids will go to another. Its rare these days that we all want to see the same movie.
Yesterday was different. The family wanted [...]

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Super Hero Quiz

December 30, 2006

Your results:You are Hulk

Hulk

75%

Robin

70%

Spider-Man

65%

Batman

65%

Superman

50%

The Flash

50%

Iron Man

45%

Green Lantern

45%

Supergirl

38%

Catwoman

35%

Wonder Woman

8%

You are a wanderer withamazing strength.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

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Happy Birthday Kelsi

December 29, 2006

Photo by rbieber
Kelsi with her Sweet 16 tierra

Kelsi turned “Sweet 16″ this week and Dad’s really feeling old.

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links for 2006-12-29

December 28, 2006

Flickr: Camera Finder: Canon
(tags: cameras digital)

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Studying Up On Ruby

December 27, 2006

Photo by rbieber
I’ve been focusing on Ruby a lot over the past 3 days (Rails specifically). What a great environment to work in!

This was taken about a month ago. I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and experimenting with Rails and I have to say, I love it. [...]

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The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

December 26, 2006

Over the last few months I’ve started a lot of books. There is so much interesting reading out there that between the usual blogs that I read, the effort I’m spending learning Ruby on Rails, and the interesting books I run across in my usual ritual of trolling book stores, I’m finding it [...]

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The “Official” Christmas Wrap Up

December 26, 2006

Well Christmas is over. We finally had the “official” gift exchange with the boys when they got back from their fathers house at about 10a.
I received Black Label Society – The European Invasion-Doom Troopin – Live DVD from Andy and an iTunes gift card and some damn comfortable slippers [...]

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An Early Christmas

December 24, 2006

For the last sixteen years, we have normally split Christmas with Kelsi to Christmas Eve for Dad, and Christmas Day for Mom. This has worked out very well for us over the years.
This year was a little different. Kelsi is involved in marching band and her schedule is impacted by [...]

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Denying Spammers

December 24, 2006

I’ve been having a real problem with the site being hit hard by spammers lately. Consequently, I have turned comments off on most of the articles on the site at this point.
Due to the implementation of SPAM Karma 2 and Akismet, none of the comment spam actually made it [...]

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links for 2006-12-20

December 19, 2006

Javascript Defer Execution
explanation of the defer attribute of the script tag … interesting
(tags: javascript xhtml html)

Full Metal Jacket Quotes
Saw this movie again this weekend and just love it.
(tags: movies quotes)

Ruby UUID Generator
UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) are primarily used in distributed applications to generate identifiers that do not conflict. A UUID is 128 bits long and [...]

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links for 2006-12-19

December 18, 2006

FileForum | Paint.NET (Beta)
.NET implementation of a drawing program.
(tags: software tools image)

.NET Zip Library #ziplib (SharpZipLib)
The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET
(tags: api development free OpenSource programming software Compression zip c#)

Sometimes I think IT is an industry full of witch-doctors – Brainbox.com.au
(tags: business career humor it)

Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » The [...]

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links for 2006-12-18

December 17, 2006

HowToRunBackgroundJobsInRails in Ruby on Rails
Description of how to run cron jobs in the rails environment.
(tags: rails cron deployment ruby howto)

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Practical Subversion – Second Edition

December 17, 2006

I received a free copy of Practical Subversion, Second Edition by Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooney on Friday from their publishers, Apress.
I had reviewed the first edition before it was released and had found it to be an excellent companion to “Version Control with Subversion” (C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian [...]

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links for 2006-12-13

December 12, 2006

Flash MP3 player : Flam Player : Music on your website! – Home
(tags: flash mp3 audio software web)

FREE Flash MP3 Player
(tags: mp3 flash)

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links for 2006-12-08

December 7, 2006

SEO Elite Software | Search Engine Optimization | Link Popularity | Web Promotion | Link Exchange Search Tool
(tags: optimization software seo)

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links for 2006-12-06

December 5, 2006

Jason Calacanis Keynote at Search Engine Strategies
This post has audio … definitely want to listen to it.
(tags: calacanis)

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links for 2006-12-05

December 4, 2006

The Digg Algorithm – Unofficial FAQ – Cristian Mezei
(tags: algorithms)

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