This post will entertain virtually nobody but me.  If you aren’t interested is seeing me being entertained, you can go ahead and stop reading.Aside from a scrap mini-pc I turn on every now and again for my Windows-only L
      
      
      
      
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        Ah, Internet Explorer.  How do I hate thee?  Let me count the ways.#437    Image ToolbarThe Image Toolbar is the handy toolbar that pops up whenever your mouse hovers over an image, asking if you want to save, print, res
      
      
      
      
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        A big buzz word (phrase rather) has been floating around for a bit, and as the division I work in is rapidly moving toward it, I thought I’d give it a brief overview.  That buzz word/phrase is:  service oriented architec
      
      
      
      
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        Let me start out by saying I hate this sort of thing.  I’ve read so many articles that essentially amount to fanboys writing love letters to their desktops (oh OpenSUSE 10.1 RC1, how I love thee….) that I tend to shun th
      
      
      
      
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        This is a tip I picked up on digg.  For those Firefox users among you - which I hope is just about everyone - you’ve probably noticed Firefox starts snarfing lots of RAM over time.  If you’re sitting on a decrepit machin
      
      
      
      
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        I have good news and bad news.  Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s long abandoned browser project, is finally slated for an upgrade (thanks to Firefox’s 10%+ and growing market share).  That’s the good news.  That is also th
      
      
      
      
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        Ah, project management.  To quote Shakespeare:  “He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you! (dead).”I don’t want to slam the art of project management here.  Project managers have a tough job, and oddly enough I fin
      
      
      
      
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        I have some projects coming up that need to do routing.  And not the nice point-to-point routing either.  We’re talking the infamous traveling salesman problem I talked about and wrote code for earlier.  This is the kind
      
      
      
      
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        Sometimes I find things with dubious real world value that are so cool I have to share them anyway.  This gem I ran in to is called Web on Stick (WOS).  It essentially lets you run everything you need for a full-fledged 
      
      
      
      
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        In another article this month we looked at the relatively easy steps to get MapServer installed on Windows/IIS.  Now let’s take it a step further and make a map, complete with panning and zooming.  PHP/Mapscript makes th
      
      
      
      
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