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Saturday, May 15, 2004
Energizer bunny
If you have kids, I'm sure you're like me in this respect. You go through bazillions of batteries. Until you realize that raiding Costco every other weekend just for batteries just doesn't cut it anymore.
No more batteries for me (yeah, right). This guy in Hawaii sells rechargeables cheaper than normal batteries in some stores. My best EBay experience by far.
Other people want $2 per cell, which is not too bad either, considering you can pay up to $4 per cell in the store.
Anyway, this is just my way of saying thanks again, Sheung!
Friday, May 14, 2004
RSS feeds now ad free!
I'm happy to announce that I have made a deal with Ovi Crisan of 2rss.com which keeps our feeds ad free, and adds him as a happy Borland customer!
If you refresh your feed readers you will notice that my RSS feed is ad free, as well as Allen's and Danny's. Michael's will soon be ad free as well - he just created his profile on 2rss.com so that Ovi can mark it as a paid profile.
Thanks Ovi, and have fun with the stuff I sent!
Thursday, May 13, 2004
More on 2rss.com advertising
Allen comments on 2rss.com ads
I agree with Allen that they of course can offset free with advertising, and if I pay I get rid of the ads. That's great!
However, this wasn't what I agreed to when I started using their free service. You can argue that services change over time. Of course they do.
BUT, how about notifying me before this happens? They have my contact information! If I had received a notification about this before it happened I would gladly have shelled out some cash for the service. Or, if I didn't agree to the terms, I would have had time to react.
Instead it was simply injected into my RSS feed, with no notice anywhere to be found on their web pages.
This is the only thing I've found on the topic, and it was posted 12 hours after the advertising started.
And yes, a blogging solution for the BDN is being worked on. It'll be available as soon as possible. Nothing has changed in this respect.
David Orriss Jr (TeamB) joins the blogging party!
Kick the Chair!
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
2rss.com spamming my feed?
OK... It looks like all 2rss.com RSS feeds are getting spammed with advertising.
It's in mine, Michael's, Danny's and Allen's RSS feeds now.
I can't find any info on 2rss.com. Anybody got any clues?
Any alternatives to 2rss.com out there?
I'm certainly not subscribing to what they're doing with my feed.
Great ECO info
I was just pinged by Anthony Richardson. He sent me an email and told me that Malcolm Groves has been putting some great ECO stuff in his blog.
Keep up the good work, Mal!
Malcolm's blog on ECO
Now I'll go read all this great stuff and learn a thing or two.
Resolving size mismatch exceptions with the Delphi 7.1 update
While I was in meetings more or less all day, John was working. Here's all the dirt on what we're doing on resolving this issue.
BDN article
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Michael Swindell's blog is now officially live
Exciting tidbits of C++ information
Kenneth de Camargo: "Could be BCX, though. And no fixes for BCB."
Robert Ehteshamzadeh: "BCB means VCL with a snappy IDE written in native code, and IDE extensions are written in C++ or Pascal, not Java."
Des O'Toole: "Could be a development of BCB6 or 'that other' VCL package [my note: Delphi]."
Robert Ehteshamzadeh: "...VCL is back in vogue."
Tom Boser: "Bring C++Builder up to the Delphi level when the next major version of Delphi for Win32 comes out."
Robert Ehteshamzadeh: "That is the current plan."
PS: As soon as we get a company wide blogging system (real soon now), I'm sure Robert will start his own blog.
:-)
ActionBands update
Steve Trefethen has updated and clarified the reasons why his ActionBands fixes are not in the D7.1 update. Instead you can download an updated ActionBands update from Steve's site.
Monday, May 10, 2004
All about your credit score
5 Tips: Understanding your credit score
Sunday, May 09, 2004
$1.93 per gallon - I wish...
Pump prices jump a dime to $1.93
I paid $3.03 today at a tiny Chevron station in Big Sur. Yeah, they rip you off when you're in the middle of nowhere admiring the view. That's why I only bought a gallon and a half to get me back to Scotts Valley. ;-)
Got some liver pate in Solvang too. Yum!
And some really decent Havarti cheese. Not that weak wimpy stuff.
I wish they would have had the stuff that sweats and burst into flames by itself though.
:-)
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