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Cause if you don’t know… well now you know… jigga. ~Notorious B.I.G.

Krugle is not another search again (ie lycos, askjeeves, and everything else that is not Google). It’s a haven for geeks, developers, and anyone who’s stuck with a code-related issue. In their bio, the fine folks at Krugle describe their engine as an effective tool to find source code and code-related documentation, fast.

My own limited experience has shown their initiative to be true. For example, searching for “initialcontext jms” in java returns a multitude of solutions regarding the creation of a jms connection session. If you’re having trouble with regex, simply search “regex” for whatever language (My personal weapon of choice == Perl) you want, and you’ll get hits providing examples of the implementation(s).

Now, I am aware that the examples I’ve provided are simplistic in nature at best, but one should know that if you’re looking for a regex pattern to parse through file x for the string, say… onomatopoeia, you’re likely not to find it. However, if you want examples of regular expression that will lead you to that regex (Extra Credit for anyone who submits that regex), you’re likely to find that Krugle is a useful tool. As anyone who codes well knows, you can never have enough examples when you’re stuck with a problem (except maybe the implementation of a ‘for’ loop… in any language).

By the way, a note about the Krugle site itself- fairly clean layout and implementation. Not the fastest load times, but hey, worth the wait for what you need.

New theme in place. Was considering some other things to do with the site, but for now this will suffice; looks hella better than the default azure.

Now back to watching forrest gump.

FYI, my page looks like @$$ in Internet Explorer (doesn’t everything?). Do yourself a favor and get Firefox
… the better browser.

Birds, specifically pigeons, should die.

There, I said it. They’re animals owned and operated by the devil himself. Even the animal lover and vegetarian in me cannot harbor any praise for these damned creatures.

Why do I feel so strongly against the livelihood of these flapping animals? Let’s put it this way… I spend approximately 4 hours working on my car to make it look like this. Hours later, some pigeon has deposited its waste on my hood. Do they have sensory equipment embedded in their genes? Why not *hit on the ugly Pontiac that my neighbor drives? It’s red in color too… why my clean, waxed, and buffed car?

This happens every time I wash my car. Worse, however, is the atomic bomb that one bird dropped on the family van. Not only must that have taken an impeccable amount of precision and timing, but it was widespread-enough attack that seeped inside the window carriage.

I need to setup a bird feeder outside the house, and feed them some grains soaking in Raid.

My phone pwns your phone.

I recently forked the $200 to purchase the Sony Ericsson K750i. Having used it for approximately 1.5 months now, I am both ecstatic and saddened when discussing it…

Extremely satisfied: because this phone has all that and a bag of chips in terms of features. It includes bluetooth, stereo headphones (that also act as the FM radio antenna), SUBSTANTIALLY long battery life (I left it uncharged for 4 days and there was still ~25% left), speakerphone, mp3 player, and the recipe for Coca-Cola… ok- maybe not, but you get the idea.

The one problem? It’s a GSM phone from Europe- so it works on the 800/1800/1900 mhz bands- so it will work only at areas in the US where there are 1900 mhz towers, since we’re backwards about phone technology just like we are with everything else. Luckily for me, it’s worked everywhere in NJ and NY.

And oh, did I mention the 2 MP camera? yeah….