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Big news the Olympics is over and China won or at least that is what is being told to the Chinese people (Yes I am a free Tibet type person). Not good news just News. Barack “insane” Obama has chosen a running mate/vice presidential buddy:

Joseph Biden (had to use Joseph otherwise you all would think Joe Levi was Joseph Biden) so good times. Too bad poor old liberal John McCain doesn’t use the internet (it’s for the youngin’s I guess.). Why its too bad mmm not sure just sounded fun.

 

Enough politics. Back to school time. The mom’s of the United States rejoice.

Jerry Seinfield is now a Microsoft mouse-keteer. At least he will be doing ads for the squishy’s (microsoft = microsquishies).

IE8 Due out November. yahoo! we get another browser to support. *deep sarcasm*

Alright I am boring you. Let’s liven it up with the list of links:

 Other great online clock. This is pretty cool.

Color Schemer for Developers and you.

How could I forget my friends @ 2600? –Is the FBI watching? Hello!

Mental Self Rotation. First off you have to be mental.

The Three best firefox 3 extensions. No its not paypal joe.

The Peoples Mario (Communist ad) Is communism making a comeback?

Download swf files fer free yall!

SEO: 5 rare and valuable link building tactics. Angela would know this.

Zombie Defense Kit. I bought fer the apocalypse

and you all thought I was just a straight MSSQL guy. Really? Come on.

Web Development Cheat Sheet. I dig this.

Ten Commandments for Developers

an online type tester. Finally got 50wpm. Words Per Minute.

Pictures of an odd kind.

Asp Library. That is .NET library

More CheatSheets. Fun for the computer.

I like this picture.

E_Maxx for free

Courting a Developer.

Watch your Website with HttpWatch

EliteFreeware Elite yes not just free but elite.

Email Prioritizer For Outlook.

Face Your manga. Yeah be careful with that.

Flickr Video Browser

Fosi Find those evil large files

Free Audio books and other assorted stuff.

Google Experimental Search

Free magazines Mygazines

Pixelpipe no don't smoke it.

Pure Text a tool to convert html to txt within your clipboard.

SQL Code Tips

Totally Looks like

Back up your tweets and well everything twitter.

All the Top Twitters or tweeps or well getting lame eh?

Highlight Kids link Fun for Kids

Avi to DVD free Software

Universal Media Converter

I did work no really I did work.

You get signal. Very cool site. Reverse lookups and all.

 

 

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Third week of August.  My wife finally got through the “Twilight” Series. Now she is re-reading them and has informed me the movie has been moved up. woo! 

Then there was the whole downtime of blog.mikedopp.com to do some much needed upgrade/updates. I am still debating the whole give up on blogengine.net or not.

It has been a slow week. However I did get a new mountain bike from Thann. Thanks Thann.

Huge shoutout to the dude at tinytwitter.com. Updated his app to talk to both maps.live.com and twitpic with the tinytwitter application. Much impressed. Keep up the great work.

Thinking halo3 or rockband party this friday. If your interested drop me a line. Xbox gamertag:mikedopp

Can’t forget anyone seeing issues with Google indexing lately? I keep getting alerts from 4 months ago. News still and forever breaking it seems.

Shall we get to links?

Play Olympic (silverlight) games at home. Woo Hooo!

How to detect the social sites your users well use.

C# Developer Search engine. Hint it uses google.

How to get google to stop indexing your site. Hint use asp.net2.0

How to add encrypted Website Payments to your ASP.nET site. didn't I...

Giga Fone its not megaphone its not teraphone its gigaphone

Google changing ranking engine again. Wow they are trying to be live.com

How to make money from your blog? well um adsense and then pray the visitors come.

* Probably my Favorite Link of the Week* Math online. Cheat I dare ya.

Using your browser history to determine gender? 99 percent male.. wheew I am safe.

Rest in Peace? No RIP

Add another tagging source to your windows live writer. Hint Mydigitallife.

Woo Hoo a goog open source Sql Client. However Buddy is a bit far!

If your a web developer and use asp.net and you like free controls enjoy.

Ok here is the mother of libraries or rapid library download viruses to your hearts content.

Talk Soup? really? NO! Talk Shoe. Talk into your soul.. of your shoe?

Vista Firewall Control called Sphinx. a Sphinter says what? Sorry had to...

The question is does google really care about your markup? The real question is are you feeling lucky punk? well? do ya?

Look at lan? why not look at wan? guess its over a metro lan.

50 free apps for tin foil hat wearers. wow that works well.

SQL reference page as if. :$Little_RobbieTables.

another link to get you into trouble with the RIAA

and you thought gravatar was deluxe. Here Comes Avatar Deluxe.

The perfect 3 column Web page layout. Perfect really. I have a bridge to sell you...

 

So it was a weak links Monday. I have a new bike and I need to enjoy it. Till next Monday um ttfn as katie would say.

 

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Addictions have been the topic of the week.  My wife and a friend of mine (Blake) Got me addicted to Sonic Slushes. The black berry flavor you don’t see on the menu. Yeah that good.

My wife along with every woman in the United States have found an addiction to “Twilight”. I think my wife was a late comer to the whole thing which means she has made up for it by reading 3 of the 4 books in 4 days.

Rest in Peace: Bernie Mac. Isaac Hayes. Dang it was a death weekend.

Yes the Olympics started and I was stoked about it (Microsoft and NBC announced this awesome silverlight web site (This was at MIX08) for live streaming of video (real time. guess that’s what live means.) However NBC lied and they delivered a crappy overweight with special “games” as well as dead links to crap I don’t care about. To be fair there is some good info about the athletes and back story to them. I just was hoping that I could watch it streaming and well all that was promised. Guess I should not have expected more than mediocre (look for links in my list for real streaming).

New guy (bryan) sized my sites up this past week and was amazed that my blog was actually cool. Also thanks to him he made me realize that my PR or Page Rank is now 4. So I must say thanks and well woot. However he was disappointed when I didn’t capitalize (google ads) my site more. mmm…

Also blog.mikedopp.com will be experiencing some issues. I have to down it again and clean up some bad code. Sorry. I know you will miss my links for a few minutes.

Crap almost forgot. Twitter  let me start following again on Wednesday. Thanks to all those who stuck with me and continue to listen to my rants. I try to make them slightly enjoyable.

So on to the long awaited and much loved Links:

Top Ten (I know another one?) Code Search Engines

50 ( Another one? Come on!) Killer online Resources for Computer Science Students

Test early Bad Practices and you!

As Promised Sources for Beijing live:

How to watch the Beijing Olympics (thanks friends of twitter)

Live Streaming and Mean (ok nice)

Where to watch the Olympics Live

*** That was all I could find using twitter and Google in 5 minutes.

One of my favorite 404 messages.

Everyone knows how much I like cable. Have a look at Comcastic issues.

Understanding the main social networks.

Css Tricks using Video ish.

CSS to conquer the world. Really Conquer the world?

How Google index's Flash. mmm...

So eveyone thinks I am only a .NET guy. I like Python.

Microsoft Math. User - cash = Microsoft products path.

Backgrounds and tiles the ultimate source.... Doode!

Killer app for Amazon Watching. umm Killer eh?

20 must have ringtones. Yes these are good.

Free Desktop and presentation software. Yes Free. Free is Free right?

Blog from your windows mobile device. Yes it's not for Iphone sorry.

Video Conversion Software for Free. Do we want to really converse about free?

PDF to Word to html to um paper - printer and such.

Joe Levi found this funny. Gotta check it out.

How to tell if you have been black listed. Email and web domain.

Fonolo Just liked the name. Some thing to do with caller ID and things.

Cant watch the Olympics live streaming? Play them in Silverlight.

Like Delicious? You will like Visualize (hint its for pictures)

Need some textbooks for School? I will take the google hit for this link.

Twellow. Where do you belong on twitter?

Windows updates downloader.

Talkinator. A light wieght messenger for your blog/web site.

 

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I was once a young programmer (ok script kiddie; however those days are over. At least the man thinks so.) I loved writing macro’s, vbscript and jscripts to mostly mess with my friends making their cdrom drives open and close and floppy drives try to read. All good times.

When I started at my first true getting paid to write complex batch, command files, inf scripts as well as long html/xhtml/xml scripting. I was using notepad and had many syntax errors due to lack of syntax outlining like a great IDE that I couldn’t afford. That is when my boss pointed me to a great little application call Program File Editor. I was amazed by the ability of this robust little application.

My favorite part was the little record button that would make what ever I did like line spacing as well as parsing long xml strings easy and very efficient.

Created by Alan Phillips at Lancaster University. Also has not been updated since 1999. As you can see it still works in Vista.

If you need a great little application to write complex macro’s or a great little text editor give Program File Editor a try.

Download Here – From Download.com

 

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I consider myself one of the faithful over at Twitter. Constantly updating my feed or tweet if you will. I follow alot of people just to see what they say on a daily basis.

Especially those within the my geographic area as well as the multiple professionals within the field of work I do which is writing web based applications as well as creating magnificent (I know magnificent a great word) web sites. I could give you a list however that is beyond the scope of this article.

Well since last Monday I have been unable to follow anyone else. Yes I follow around 2000+ twitterpated twitti (twitters for short). I get a steady stream of people following me and I like to reciprocate that by following them as long as the twitter is not a bot, spammer or evil in which I can’t explain.

Going back to what happened on that unfortunate July morning twitter updated their algorithm to get rid of extra bot's and such which I applaud. However the rules killed my ability to follow anyone else. I gave the excuse to my followers or those new to the mikedopp feed that somehow twitter felt I was a bot or other evil doer. Of course that was in humor. I gave twitter until that Thursday to clean up issues from the update and still did not see an improvement.

I went ahead and complained at the Getsatisfaction web site (forums) as well as entered two help tickets. I have yet to get an email, tweet or kiss my butt from twitter. Is twitter too big for the twitter faithful?

So my biggest gripe is that others have 10k+ followers and are able to follow more. Scoble for example?

Please don’t get me wrong I like the idea of keeping too many twitter bot’s and evil doers from signing up and spamming twitter. Using the following limits.

Please Twitter reconsider.

Guess plurk.com or indenti.ca will play nice.

ZDnet Article:Twitter AntiSpam (Zdnet)

 

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