Archive for August, 2003
Sunday, August 31st, 2003
BSClient 0.5 source release
Details and download of my the BlogShares Client Application.
Update: Blogshares bit the dust. Over, done, nada, fini. I’ve removed the downloads, since nobody should need them anymore.
Update 2: Looks like the site is back, but I don’t feel like maintaining the application anymore. The API has been disabled for the time being, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in BlogShares by mattcomroe
Friday, August 29th, 2003
HMOs can kiss my ass.
[Ed. I sent this through the general comment form on Highmark BCBS’s site earlier tonight]
To whom it may concern,
Your website is a navigation horror.
Furthermore, I am unable to use your provider search with either Internet Explorer 6 (used by more than 50% of all Internet users (see http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/browser.php)) due to a javascript error when submitting, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
GZip compression and changing UserAgent
Just in case you ever wanted to use the .NET Zip Library to receive GZip-compressed content from a webserver, as well as sending a custom UserAgent string to identify your app, here’s how you do it:
Comments Off - Posted in .Nizzle, BlogShares by mattcomroe
Monday, August 25th, 2003
Notable Quotables
Best two quotes from the weekend:
[While checking in at the campground with the creepy campground manager guy]
CCMG: What kind of car are you driving?
Friend: A silver Honda CRV.
CCMG: Gray. You’re in West Virginia.
[At a Mexican restuarant on our way home]
Kid: (looking at woman’s large and, IMHO, ugly tribal tattoo on her back) Why do [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Climbing by mattcomroe
Sunday, August 24th, 2003
Breakfast
Back at the Cathedral Cafe… got a little bit of a later start, and we have 3 extra people with us today, so we had to wait a little while longer for our table. They actually wound up giving us a large round table that had been reserved for another party, but I guess [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Climbing by mattcomroe
Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
Summersville Saturday
At the Cathedral Cafe in Fayetteville right now, finishing up breakfast, checking the weather, and getting ready to go climb all day long. We got down around 11 or so last night, set up our tents, and passed out. I love coming down on Friday nights, because then you just get up and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Climbing by mattcomroe
Thursday, August 21st, 2003
Call me Clarence Thomas
Some of the other developers at my job that work on another unrelated piece of software pulled some serious all-nighters over the last few days. All fine and dandy, except that they drank all of my soda that was in the mini-fridge in the process. It was only slightly bothersome, but what I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Work by mattcomroe
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
Uh-oh
Maybe I should walk away from the game for awhile.
No Comments » - Posted in BlogShares by mattcomroe
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
WV shootings
Investigators question 100 people in sniper-like killings
So, they’re looking for an “overweight white male” driving a Ford F150 pickup. Maybe they can throw in that the guy likes NASCAR and narrow their search to only 1/2 the population of West Virginia instead of 3/4.
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Tuesday, August 19th, 2003
Matt Comroe, Plutocrat
I’ve now hit $1 billion on BlogShares. Woo. A lot of it has to do with tweaking the search I’ve been using for automated buys with the early implementation of my BSClient. I hope to be able to do some more work on it tonight, after climbing.
