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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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Summer is slipping quickly away. Welcome to the August edition of 2008 as well the Olympics start this week. Need to check out live.com and NBC for web casts of all the events.

Twitter still is showing me no love since the whole spam bot algorithm has come into play. I have complained as well as sent in multiple help tickets. Oh well the addiction continues.

I has invites for 12seconds.tv as well kwippy.com let me know if you are interested.

Microsoft also quietly announced that Windows will be drastically changing into a web based product within a few product cycle. Details soon I guess.

Linkedin told me I have too many contacts. So if you want to contact me or enter my Linkedin Circle add me.  

Lets get to this late edition of links:

Amazing Photo Illusions @ least thats what is says

Baby Smash sounds cruel and unusual however it is very very cool. Thanks Scott.

Blowup your Flickr Images

Visual Resumes for well recruiters delight

SQL Adapter for PHP bout time

A lame but addicting game called fantastic Contraption

Tab Browser Settings for those who miss Tab Browser Preferences in Firefox 3

Zune Phone for real? Why? mmm.

Multi Traceroute for those who need a ping from differing servers in the world.

Use your url history to tell your sex or gender whatever comes first.

Disc Indexer. Free as in well free.

Video thumbnail maker

Test your web apps in multiple browsers at the same time. Woooo!

Turn images or video in ascii art

Url info for handling web pages

Want to add more themes to windows vista Here is the patches

security videos

10 examples of beautiful typography in css

xhtml characters for fun

Little Great Ideas ___will you____

the evolution of a programmer

top five free online shooters

Idiot Test

More freeware guides for you

Things I learned while being alive

10 Seo rules for designers

Now Do this!

Pizza party in UNIX

Create a Image Map in CSS

Search engine guides for beginners

One of the coolest periodic tables

 

 

 

 

 

Last but not least this is how funny I am:

Have a great week.

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So here is step-by-step tutorial to enable it:

1. Open regedit and goto:

“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger”

2. In right-side pane, create a new DWORD value and give it name "AddInFeatureEnabled" and set its value to 1
3. That’s it. Now open Windows Live Messenger and goto "Tools -> Options" and you'll see a new tab "Add-ins" at last.

4. Remember to restart Windows Live Messenger for the buttons to be enabled.

 

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