The Harry Potter movie is coming out soon!

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Geek Blog: "Sometimes I love being proven wrong": "I just finished watching Buffy, and this week was titled 'Buffy: The Musical'. I was expecting a really cheesy show, with all dancing and zero plot. I have seen some of my most beloved shows go down the path of musical and the show was never half as good after that. This was very different." He says the final scene was shocking! What was the final scene!! I don't know how close to the end I was when my VCR cut out! Supposedly, according to TV Guide, they're showing the episode again next Friday. I must see it.

I just checked Daypop for more Buffy stories, and here are a few:

SF Gate: Standing ovation for a singing 'Buffy'
Slate: Buffy Slays. Now What? The least-watched great show on TV grows up.

More later, but I have to finish my English paper. I always do this... procrastinate until the last possible moment. For now, check out Daypop's search for Buffy for yourself. Overall the opinions of 'Buffy: The Musical' seem to be very favorable. And hey, check it out, UPN has its own Buffy site now - the WB kept Buffy.com. Wait a minute, I just checked and it looks like UPN has aquired buffy.com since the last time I looked. Neat.

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11:49 (utc-5)
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Via Scripting News, Weblogging: Another Kind of Website: "What is a weblog? A weblog is easy to use but less easy to explain, a technology that is becoming more widely used but still remains little known, and a writing tool that supports practicing writers and previous non-writers. Weblogs have a relatively recent but intense history, with implications for web publishing, journalism, and education".

Also, Via Scripting News, JD Lasica: Weblogs: Too legit to quit. I'm not going to quote any "soundbites" from it, but it's a great read, and another great perspective on weblogs.

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I put the creation and modification dates and times under each weblog entry. Which is better, with them or without them? Please let me know (like anyone comes to this site anyway .

Thing is... entries created before I started saving the modification time don't have one, so they look silly. Check out my archive and see what I mean. If I leave the timestamps, it'll incentivize me to run some SQL to update the records with empty modified times to set them to the created time for the record. I've been reluctant to run it up until now because there's always the chance I could run it by accident without putting the "where" clause in or something (which means that it would update every record, not just the ones with blank modified times), and basically I wouldn't feel comfortable unless I backed up the database first. That's always a pain, so I avoided it. The less "danger" the better.

Anyway, the SQL is simple, so I'll probably do it soon and not worry about it. "update blog set updated_time = created_time where modified_time is null" (table and field names have been changed to protect the innocent).

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04:03 (utc-5)
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Via LtU, Dispelling Java programming language myths.

Myth 1: Garbage collection solves all memory-related problems
Myth 2: Parameters are passed by reference
Myth 3: Atomic operations are thread safe
Myth 4: Synchronized code is the same as a critical section
Myth 5: Waiting threads are awakened in priority order

I read the first myth on GC so far - the article seems excellent.

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03:51 (utc-5)

 

From the Daily Python URL, "gnutellavision: Real Time Visualization of a Peer to Peer Network" This thing looks pretty impressive, and it's done in Python! There are some hefty videos on it which I've downloaded, but haven't gotten to watch yet.

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01:17 (utc-5)

 

I'm really glad EditPlus got some front page billing on Slashdot. It deserves it!

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01:13 (utc-5)

 

Yesterday was my birthday. I'm now 22. Michelle gave me a call to wish me happy birthday. I love Michelle. My Grandparents remembered as always, I got an ice cream cake, a gift card to Borders, some cards which I haven't gotten to open yet, and my brother bought Willy Wonka for me which will come in the mail soon

I also got a bunch of e-mails from friends at MMT (thanks). MMT now has the longest, most anal legal disclaimer I've ever seen pasted on the end of every e-mail that leaves the place. Oh look, their website is still coming soon At least it's not coming by the fourth of July of last year anymore! Lol.

And in unrelated news, there was a funny South Park on tonight.

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01:09 (utc-5)
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An Introduction to Ruby: "Ruby is two parts Perl, one part Python, and one part Smalltalk. So says Colin Steele, a developer who is smitten with this "diamond in the rough" of scripting languages." - I like Ruby. Hey, I already read the whole book on it However, so far I tend to agree with Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby. From his Thinking in Python page, he links to his Why I Love Python slideshow. In the presentation, he says this about Ruby: "I'll wait and see, but my impression is that it doesn't do more for me than Python (or not more enough)".

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