Monthly Archives: December 2007

Some final Patterns

As promised, here are a few useful cases for final in Java. In reality, there are so many of them that I’ve just gotten into the habit of using it unless I find a good reason not to: it just seems like the habit of using final makes ugly and buggy code more difficult to [...]

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It’s Tea Party Day!

And Ron Paul is raising $3,000 a minute, even without the blimp dropping tea into the harbor. He’s raised over $2 million already, and estimates have him at $9.5 million at the end of the day, which puts him at $16.46 million in Q4 fundraising. For a bit of perspective, only Mitt Romney raised more [...]

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Podcast is Go

I’ve got the hardware and the software ready to go for the podcast. I’ve nearly got the theme song sorted out: just waiting on an e-mail exchange to finish up. I’m going to get an introductory podcast pulled together and on the web, and then I’ll be following up with the various people who agreed [...]

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Zogby on Predicting the Iowa Caucuses

Can the Iowa caucuses be polled accurately? What’s fascinating is to see that Kerry, the eventual winner, gained 10 points in the polls in the last 9 days, taking it right out of Dean and Gephardt’s hides (with a little help from some undecided voters). So maybe the problem with polling isn’t that polls are [...]

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Ron Paul is the New Chuck Norris

Best Presidential Poll Evar Ron Paul’s Blimp (No, Really) And, from Flashmob.com: Who is Ron Paul? [submitted-2007-11-04 12:45:56 PST] Barnes & Noble Leawood Kansas, 8:00 PM. Spread out and chant “Who is Ron Paul” five times, then leave.

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