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One of the most interesting things about playing CH on Xbox Live are the notices that such and such a person donated a massive amount of money to the country, and is awarded a medal for it. If by interesting I mean tedious and boring, anyway. Come on Sega. Heh.

Google Maps for mobile? Well, not really. It looks like it requires Java, maybe? So, it doesn’t work on my Treo, which just renders HTML.

Amusingly, maps.google.com works fine. It’s just this special “maps for mobile” that fails. It’s probably for the best, though. I’d expect Java to be incredibly slow on a phone device, heh.

How does a contractor not know that the work they are doing (cutting in to the ceiling) is going to spew dust and dirt everywhere, and then not put down plastic sheeting or something similar?

Sonics sold :

Seattle “deserves an NBA franchise,” Bennett said.

Argh. What does he think we did to deserve one of those? With any luck we can fix that situation, and they’ll leave before we are forced to pay for another new stadium.

Very funny. Very much in the spirit of the series. “Three fingers, please.” Ha ha ha.

One thing that I’ve noticed, and I’m sure many of you have noticed, is how hard it is to search for documents containing programming terms such as “operator!=” or “read()”. The results on Google are completely worthless. Lycos results are similarly worthless.

I was surprised to find that AltaVista seems to return relevant results for “operator!=”, although not for “read()”.

I am curious if there are any search engines out there designed for programmers. My (admittedly limited) searching hasn’t turned up any.