It seems that I am always searching for good regular expressions, but really accurate and concise ones are seemingly impossible to find. Most do very poor jobs at covering corner cases, or they are completely wrong and useless. For example, I recently discovered a regex designed to match an MD5 hash, which is a 32-digit [...]
Ironically, considering the dispute I have with Citibank about a fraudulent transaction, I received an offer from them for a second mortgage with a program much better than I could get myself as a loan officer. It was almost impossible to pass up, so I filed an application electronically. As seems usual in these cases, [...]
I came up with an interesting best-of list today while importing a few dozen of my remaining albums into iTunes (still have lots more to go!!)
I looked at the top-rated songs in my iTunes library (about 10% of my entire library) and sorted the results by album title. Looking only at albums performed by a [...]
But, as Douglas Adams so eloquently put in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, what precisely is the question?
Here are some possibilities (not in the form of a question):
according to a Princeton University website, the definition of 42 is “being two more than forty” — I kid you not.
wikipedia describes 42 as “the natural [...]
I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]
Crack! The gavel banged on the county supervisor’s desk.
“Lot number 16. Sold for $10,200 to the man in the striped shirt!”
I had made another trip to El Dorado County to attend their annual tax sale. Properties owned by taxpayers who failed to make the required annual installments for periods of longer than five to seven [...]
I mentioned the other day in one of my other blogs about some common mistakes that people make when it comes to writing, not through the occasional spelling mistake or unintentional oversight (which I’m sure abound here!), but just through plain ignorance.
When mentioning abbreviated decades, remember that the apostrophe is used in place of letters [...]
Dear Mr. LeCour:
Your recent letter has been referred to me, and I have been asked to respond. We’ve simplified our boarding process. I’m glad you’ve given us the opportunity to explain our boarding procedures.
In a continued effort to streamline the boarding process, we are pleased to offer Group Boarding. If you are seated in the [...]
Dear American Airlines:
This letter is a complaint concerning one of your most recent policies.
Apparently your policymakers have not experienced the difficulties of traveling with small children, as the airline personnel assisting with ticketing and boarding no longer allow those passengers needing extra time to preboard or even those with handicaps and wheelchairs early access to [...]
