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PokerBot Pro – Another Online Scam

March 13, 2006 Poker

Like what you see? How about getting Bill’s Poker Blog delivered to your inbox?Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurnerElse, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Pauly emailed me this link the other day and I just can’t help calling the guy on his bullshit. He’s certainly not the [...]

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Funny Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

October 25, 2004 Tech Ramblings

I ran across this site the other day and thought I would pass it along for the geeks out there.

Q193835: Setup Program for Grammer [sic] Game Warns User of Unknown Shell “The warning is harmless, and you can ignored it.”
Bicycle Casino: Dealer Misreads Player’s Hand, and Losing Hand Unexpectedly Wins “The known variations of this [...]

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I got my RSS Feeds

May 16, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Last week I did a little pissing and moaning about some of my favorite sites not having RSS feeds. I had asked if anybody knew of any tools that could help me scrape my own RSS feed but no responses on that question. So, I did what I normally do which is hack [...]

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Expanding my thoughts on productivity gains and outsourcing

April 20, 2004 Tech Ramblings

The other day I made a post in which I questioned Darcy Burner’s conclusions about productivity. I had mentioned in my post that I had been thinking about this very subject recently. What I had not mentioned was that I had actually written a post but had held off posting it because I [...]

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Six Rules For Contractors

April 18, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Many, many moons ago I posted a list of five basic rules contractors should follow. I just stumbled across it, added a sixth rule and decided I should probably re-post it on my new weblog. Now, before anyone thinks me a bitter contractor ranting about clients, how I approached this needs to be [...]

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Programmer Productivity and Market Demand

April 17, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Darcy Burner recently posted her disagreement with Jim Fawcette’s analysis that tools such as Visual Studio increase productivity thus eliminating jobs. Darcy claims that there is no shortage of software that needs to be written which Darcy then extrapolates as to proof that the need for programmers has not diminished. I’m not so [...]

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Glad to be back

March 8, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Some of you may have been wondering where IÂ’ve been the last several weeks. Well, I spent the better part of the last couple of months preparing to sit for the Project Management InstituteÂ’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. That combined with my regular workload left me precious little time to blog [...]

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Credit Card Fraud in Alaska

January 1, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Ever since I wrote a short white paper on how merchants can protect themselves from online credit card fraud I’ve been getting 2 or 3 emails a week from people who have been ripped off and want to find out what their options are. Unfortunatey, in most cases, there’s absolutely nothing they can do.
I [...]

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Project Management Roundup

December 29, 2003 Tech Ramblings

Here’s a collection of interesting project management links I’ve run by in the last few days:
Developing the Master Skill of the Leader – Ten tips to become a more effective listner.
Building Personal Trust – A must for any project manager.
Fingerprints of Unhappy Companies All Look the Same – Not an especially in-depth piece but one [...]

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