Day: July 7, 2006

  • Sigh — another stupid software patent

    I see on Slashdot that Friendster (never heard of them) recently was granted a patent covering online social networks.  Sound broad — it is.  The actual patent itself reads: “system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.”  Well, that covers quite a bit.  Anyway,…

  • A hole in my ceiling

    Ah, one of the many joys of home ownership.  I was going up the stairs on Tuesday and on my way up, noticed a small wet spot on the carpet.  Of course, my first thought was where is the dog and Nathan.  The both are in the drooly stages of life (of which, hopefully Nathan…

  • Using RegEx in C#

    Something I found out today that I thought interesting.  Within MarcEdit, I have one regular expression which looks for entities and converts them to their byte equivalents (i.e., &#1B;).  Since this regular expression has the potential to be called a number of times, I decided to make use of the RegEx compile option.  In the…