By Renegade on Friday, January 22, 2010 8:37 AM

Nothing makes me degenerate into a blood-thirsty, profane rage like a web site that makes it impossible for me to give them money. Really. I scream and curse and yell and generally just freak out whenever it happens, which is really far too often. Apress makes me happy~! Read more to find out why. (FAIR WARNING: Rant includes profanity and could be offensive to some, especially morons that can't get a simple "take my money" page done right.)

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By Renegade on Friday, January 08, 2010 9:30 AM

I have a component toolkit that was really cheap, but the guys there are real fast with support tickets. PureComponents.

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By Renegade on Friday, January 08, 2010 8:58 AM

Well, looks like a friend is being politically assassinated here in Australia... Just goes to show that there are douche bags in politics everywhere.

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By Renegade on Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:24 AM

FAIR WARNING: This is a total rant, and if you're easilly offended, then don't bother reading. Really. I mean that. This will be offensive to thin-skinned, PC, do-gooders that love to feel good about themselves and tow the party line. (See? I'm being offensive already. I wasn't kidding.  )

Anwyays... I really detest self-righteous, pompous, do-gooder, scum-bag thieves and hypocrites... Especially PC ones... Which brings me to today's rant on recycling plastic costs...

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By Renegade on Friday, January 01, 2010 10:39 AM

So my wife and I are sitting at the table eating lunch, last night's chili, and she says, "The chili tastes better today." Well, nothing like a brain fart to set me off on a tangent!

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By Renegade on Monday, December 28, 2009 9:09 AM

So, as my parents live half-way around the planet, it's kind of hard to visit. So, I decided to keep my marriage secret for a bit...

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By Renegade on Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:26 PM

Once upon a time I wrote about how to convert iTunes AAC or M4A music into more compatible formats. Well, this is an update on how to do that for the newer versions of iTunes.

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By Renegade on Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:58 AM

WOW! FINALLY! Somebody else said it! I've been ranting alone about the insanity in the computer security industry, and finally there's someone else out there saying to take it down a step!

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By Renegade on Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:53 AM

In a word, WOW! John Boswell has some fantastic videos at SymphonyOfScience.com.

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By Renegade on Saturday, October 03, 2009 3:39 PM

John Jones left us shortly after midnight last night.

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By Renegade on Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:54 PM

The old features vs. benefits thang... not an easy task to get right. Here's a quick primer to help write better. I outline one approach where that is basically a series of refinements that steer you towards writing about benefits instead of features until you get to the actual writing step.

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By Renegade on Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:38 AM

We all have our pet peeves. Number and normalization are my two big ones. Here, I go over the general problem of not being able to count, and give an explanation of an error that people make along with where the error lies. The example is about "percent" as a unit of measure. However, by the end of my ramblings, problems of number degenerates into a high-level overview of Heraclitean temporal issues of flux and contextual problems with implications for problems between discrete and non-discrete systems.

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By Renegade on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:38 PM

Well, just finished an illustration that took 3 hours to do... And adds no really useful information...

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By Renegade on Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:01 PM

Ever wondered why Konglish uses "and etc." or some wonky version of "etc." or just uses it where it should not be used? Read on...

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By Renegade on Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:05 PM

If everything isn't enough, I'm just swamped. I'm working on a large Samsung Mobile project, busy with Samsug Techwin work, and still have everything else. No rest for the wicked I suppose.

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By Renegade on Monday, August 10, 2009 11:28 PM

Hey, there are worse things in the world!

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By Renegade on Monday, August 03, 2009 3:15 PM

Need to decompile a CHM back into HTML? Here's a great CHM decompiler...

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By Renegade on Sunday, August 02, 2009 9:34 PM

Email regular expressions? Wow... Talk about opening up Pandora's box...

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By Renegade on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:50 PM

Contests can be rigged, and we all know that US elections are... errr... fair! Yeah! That's it! Fair! But in the ultimate contest of popularity in the market, there is one force that shines fair and true: Bitorrent.

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By Renegade on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 PM

Well, I've had a couple now, so here's yet another unrant... The topic? Comodo and being thorough... (A continuation from here.)

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