Monthly Archives: October 2004

Guitar Strings

What kind of strings do you use for both electric and acoustic and what do you see as their merits? I’ve bounced around a lot. I always liked the Blue Steel pretty well for the electric, but I don’t even … Continue reading

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musical offerings

So you wanna be in a rock-n-roll band? Continue reading

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RSS feed reader recommendations

You reading RSS feeds yet? Why not? You got too much time on your hands or something? Continue reading

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I love radioio

You may be tired of hearing it, but radioio is kicking out the jams….. Continue reading

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Rambling

I felt inclined to write this little thing today and, since it serves absolutely no purpose, is vaguely “intellectual”, and my vanity is telling me I should force someone else to read it, I figured I’d post it here. Please … Continue reading

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Pointers in Java

In Chapter 3 of the Sams book came my first big surprise. Maybe that’s an overstatement, but I thought this was at least worth noting and opening up for discussion. All along every tutorial I’ve visited has lauded Java because … Continue reading

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tom’s java applet

bturnip put’s turtle’s applets to rights Continue reading

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java questions for Tom Oct 03

So, I am working on learning java and, at the same time, learn the ins and outs of a complicated IDE like Netbeans. Being an emacs person, I am unused to the level of complexity the new IDE presents. How, … Continue reading

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java progress note oct 01

Following my suggestion, and Tom’s lead, I have installed the “Java 5” platform w/ the Netbeans 4.0 beta. My plan is to work through the first two chapters of our selected tutorial text this weekend.

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