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Freaky. Cellist from E.L.O. murdered by a killer bale of hay. Weird stuff. I was just listening to them today. /via @PrincessJenn about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
Playing Little People with V. She named hers Dolly and People. I named mine Hugo Stiglitz and The Bear Jew. about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
Is the Orchard Project a .NET version of Drupal? How does it compare to SharePoint or maybe Umbraco is a better comparison? about 8 hours ago via web
Nothing like trying to track down some source code backups from a company dissolved 10 years ago. Anyone from SSI out there ping me. about 8 hours ago via web
@laribee I generally try to do an iteration-0 with no real story delivery but rather solution planning, estimates, spikes, and vision. about 9 hours ago via web in reply to laribee
@WalkTheRope I would go with Calgary and then High River, but I'm pretty biased since I live there ;) Quiet, laid back, friendly. about 9 hours ago via web in reply to WalkTheRope
Most irritating feature in the universe today. People that book meetings and remove the reminder part of the meeting. about 10 hours ago via web
@kkozmic Is it different from Nu for Visual Studio or could you just build on that http://bit.ly/coShW6 about 11 hours ago via web in reply to kkozmic
@WonderLaura RE:ECT performance. SQL filtering FTW. about 11 hours ago via web in reply to WonderLaura
Dear Microsoft, Command Line Parsing should be part of the .NET framework, not an add-on. See Ruby OptionParser for a model. about 12 hours ago via web
"It's like I'm Han, you're Chewie, she's Ben Kenobi and we're in that fucked-up bar!" about 21 hours ago via TweetDeck
And so ends tonights 3 hour med fight. Melatonin FTW. Sigh. about 23 hours ago via TweetDeck
10,000 hours of fun with your 3 year old and an iPad http://is.gd/eYdaL 4:29 PM Sep 6th via TweetDeck
The Interweb seems slow tonight for me. Can someone order some more tubes. I'm sure that will fix it up quick. 6:38 PM Sep 5th via TweetDeck
@paulschaeflein Thanks for the link. Wow. What an incredibly large class. I am speechless. 1:55 PM Sep 5th via TweetDeck in reply to paulschaeflein
@lazycoder Which Spider-man game? 1:34 PM Sep 5th via TweetDeck in reply to lazycoder
Anyone know of a good C# class that's like Ruby's OptionParser. OptionParser is such a nice way to handle command line options. 1:05 PM Sep 5th via TweetDeck
@qrush Sure here's the link http://is.gd/eWuia (will add this to my gemcutter fork once it's 100% and do a pull request) 1:04 PM Sep 5th via TweetDeck in reply to qrush
New adjective: dogable. Food that can be toss to dogs when your 3 year old doesn't eat it (which is practically anything) 11:52 AM Sep 5th via TweetDeck
@qrush Can you check out the latest version of my gemcutter install script? The only part that doesn't work is gemcutter postgres security. 11:36 AM Sep 5th via TweetDeck in reply to qrush

Name Bil Simser
Location Where the wild things grow
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Bio Programming is illusion. Its just a matter of putting enough in there to create it.