March 22, 2007
by Joe
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I was trying to think of a straightforward explanation of the difference between a class and an object (in OOP terms), and came up with this: Objects are specific instances of classes. When you create a class, you are literally … Continue reading
March 15, 2007
by Joe
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I see that Bush has been critical of Attorney General Gonzales’ scandal around the intent to mass-fire attorneys across the board for political reasons. But I’m going to defend Gonzales a bit here and say: Wasn’t he just following orders … Continue reading
February 23, 2007
by Joe
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Today we took a drive out to Dongshan (±). The trip involved two elongated stops at some impressively maintained rest areas and a final stop at this little shop run by a friend of Yingwen’s mother, where we bought some … Continue reading
January 28, 2007
by Joe
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Today I had my toothpaste confiscated from the airline security people as I went through. They said my toothpaste tube was too big. I pointed out that it was 90% empty, and only a few CCs of product remained in … Continue reading
January 23, 2007
by Joe
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In my Database class this evening we were watching the instructor do some database modeling using Visio. I was playing along using Omnigraffle, but after a while it didn’t go as far as Visio did in terms of automatically creating … Continue reading