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Found that on thedailywtf and laughed uncontrollably for some time.

A new browser has been unleashed. I’m excited because it’s software that has come from Google, which from my experience usually means a pretty rock solid product …and it feels like Christmas because I didn’t have to pay for it. I’ve read all about the reasons for its existence in the market, primarily new security [...]

These are my personal thoughts when hitting a golf ball, not really of interest to most people I’m sure, but I keep this here mainly as a record for myself. Please note I am a right handed player, so reverse the instructions for you lefties.
I’ve recently discovered the importance of several things in my golf [...]

I have been tossing up as to whether to try my hand at blades, instead of the cavity backs I’ve been using. If I was completely happy with the cavity backs it would have been an easy decision of staying with the cavity backs, but as I’ve been practicing more, I’ve started noticing how heavy [...]

This is a subsection of my post titled ‘Thoughts For The Swing’.
My thoughts on determining if you are standing the correct distance from the golf ball in more detail:
Address the ball. Let your right arm fall away from your grip, hanging from your body. If your right hard falls away from your grip in line [...]

This is a subsection of my post titled ‘Thoughts For The Swing’.
My thoughts on stepping up to the golf ball in more detail:

With no club in my hand, pick my target.
Choose the precise spot on the green or fairway where I want my ball to land. (Be sure to take into account the roll you [...]

As you grow into programming, you can pick up some poor habits along the way. These habits produce the same output, but when used in large projects could end up causing some performance headaches in the long run, causing you to get mentally spanked for not paying attention when reading this article!
So to save your [...]

I was asked today about why ‘just having a website’ is not enough to be successful online. The question came up after I was talking about a seminar I attended last year with my father. The seminar was an American based company successfully selling website services (of course they didn’t market it like this, but [...]

I’m in the process of creating a csv import application for employee data among other things, so I needed good quality test data. Instead of writing a few lines of test data myself, I thought I’d check if any free applications existed to do the work for me. I’m into free applications that I don’t [...]

Some call it coding preparation, others will call it planning and design, but we’re talking about the same thing. The more I code, the more I see professional programmers who just want to code. They don’t care if the design is complete. After all, they have enough info to get started right? They have the [...]