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So I take the family to the Angels vs. Tigers game last week. We bought 7 tickets at the box office so we were going up to the nosebleed section for sure. But when I sat down in my seat I swear this was my view of the game (with my wife’s high-power zoom camera), no joke! I could see the left-handed batter OK but if it was a righty I had to poke my head around to the right to see the batter! There acutally is a batter in the picture, you just can’t see him! We didn’t move, I really didn’t mind that much. The kids had fun and we were just having fun being together, eating overpriced stadium food, teaching the kids how to do the wave, etc. And, the Angels won 3-0.

Perhaps for the first time in history, programmers will be paid overtime! The programmers that sued EA Games for overtime pay won their case! This could have huge ramifications for IT workers that are often asked to work many days of long hours without any overtime pay because they are not hourly employees. I’m not sure what the short-term impact will be but I’m sure any payroll-submitting manager of IT staff that works their people to the bone will have to take notice. I spent a major chunk of my 20s working late nights and weekends for small software start-ups and dot.coms for no extra pay.

Fellow OC developer community/colleague Ray Tayek sent this to the OCPatterns mailing list. I thought this would be cool to share with other developers interested in learning about or improving their refactoring and design pattern skills. Sample code is available in Java and C#.

http://industriallogic.com/rtpdata/index.html

Well, for this week at least. We had a spare week of timeshare time that was going to expire so we booked a semi-vacation in Newport Coast. I work on the balcony with their in-room Wi-Fi. This will be my 20 all this week.

So I’ve been running Firefox 1.6 (Deer Park alpha) for a few weeks now. I like some of the newer features coming but it has a few kinks. Well, in it’s daily self-update today I noticed it renamed itself “Minefield”. Looks like it’s a new milestone towards Firefox 3.0! What’s the name of the next beta release, Firefox Nuclear Waste Dump?

This article here desbribes some disturbing details about why buying a 1080p HDTV is a waste of money. Seems nobody broadcasts in 1080p and BluRay and upcoming HD-DVD formats don’t even render native 1080p formatted video!

More facts vs. fiction on 1080p here.  You sort out the differences.

It’s all here. Pretty funny rip of IP. Now if someone had an IE bus then the 2 buses could do a head-to-head demolition battle!