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    Reverse search optimization

    I've been tasked with a somewhat interesting project. A customer (online retailer) of ours has hundreds of thousands of users. Each user can search for products by specifying a search term that may include wildcards. So far, trivially easy. Now each user can save their search terms so...
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    nm

    *triple post* please delete
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    anyone familier with Florida politicians?

    Cliffs: Is there a website that has an archived list of Florida State Senators and Representatives? Something with ages and/or pics? Long story: my friend meets this hot red-haired olderish (late 30s, very early 40s) woman who says her name is Rain (maybe Rayne? Or Rainn??) at a club. They...
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    Barack rocks the Springfield vote

    http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/...244038&article=4338967 "This doesn't happen in America--maybe in Ohio-- but not America!" :laugh: I wonder if this episode will prove prescient of what will happen on November 4th.
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    What was the name of that website with loads of searchable Public Records data?

    I recall a year or so ago someone on here posted a website that had an amazing (and scary) amount of searchable information gleened from Public Records--it was kind of like WhitePages.com on steroids. Quite a few forum users posted how it not only found _them_ (and all of their former and...
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    What's your favorite SNL political skit or impression?

    I've got to go with "Al Gore's Presidential Speech", by none other than Al Gore: http://www.jibjab.com/view/146110
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    Barack Obama embellished his resume?

    I have a copy of Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" sitting on my desk, a copy that I picked up on clearance at a local Border's outlet store a few months ago, after I became disillusioned with Bush's economic and immigration policies and with the general malaise in the whole Republican...
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    Anyone have a good salsa recipe?

    I have, as of late, perfected my tortilla-chip making routine (making home made tortillas, then cutting them into wedges and deep frying for 1 minute)... but I don't have good salsa to go with it. I find most store-bought salsa tastes flavorless, or horrendous, or worse. Anyone have a really...
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    Any Chicago experts here?

    In the neverending pursuit of cheap airfare, my wife and I will be driving from Ohio to Chicago's Midway airport to fly out to Colorado this week. I suppose before I got all excited about the cheap airfare, I should have factored in the cost of Midway's long-term airport parking-- which I just...
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    help me identify this shrub

    Last summer while helping my in-laws with their landscaping, we noticed they had a very small shrub growing alongside of their house. It was kind of unusual looking-- very large green leaves and smooth and bright purple/reddish stalks and branches. Over the course of the summer, it kept...
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    question for those who work in HR (or make hiring decisions)

    I just completed the latest round of interviews for a new potential employer. I believe I did quite well, but was wondering if offering to provide them a copy of my most recent performance review from my current employer would be advantageous or not. The review reflects quite well on the...
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    Anyone doing any Smartphone/Pocket PC development?

    Well, as per a recent thread here in Programming, I decided to take up studying C#. I've found myself very impressed with Microsoft's implementation of it thus far-- and this is coming from a life-long Unix/Linux geek. Anyways, as I've become more familiar with C# I've found myself...
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    Tuesday Brainteaser Thread (now with 100% less math!)

    Ok, a few weeks ago I posted a few brainteaser problems, and some complained there was "too much math involved". So I present for your problem-solving pleasure, a non-math brainteaser: You have just bought a house that has an odd-shaped room with 7 wall surfaces (not counting the floor or...
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    What programming language should I take up next?

    I've been programming for 25 years now (pretty much since I was in 1st grade-- kindergarten if you count simply keying in code straight from a BASIC programming manual), and over the years I've picked up a few languages. Some "languages" I would consider myself very well-versed in (C, Perl...
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    bad graphics card? or just normal?

    Maybe this is a problem, maybe not-- I'm not sure. But I notice in Task Manager that my cpu usage goes through the roof when I scroll in Internet Explorer. For instance, if I load CNN.com, and grab the right scrollbar and shake it up and down, I can get my CPU usage to hit 100%. When I'm not...
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    Tuesday Brainteasers

    Here are two brainteasers for those bored at work this Tuesday. If you know the answer to the easier one right away, attempt a solution at the harder one as well before posting your solution to allow others a chance to solve it as well. Problem #1 "Brazilian Football" (Easy): In standard...
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    Brainteaser Thursday

    UPDATE: Both puzzles have been solved... but if you like you can still try your hand at the solution yourself. Just don't scroll too far through the thread, unless you want to see the posted solutions. First puzzle (solved by hypn0tik): Second puzzle (solved by tmc):
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    help me id a dance/rock song

    Ok... flipping through the stations on the radio tonight I came across a song which is played somewhat infrequently, but I think it came out in the mid to late 90s. It starts and ends with what sounds like a vinyl recording of a bugle, and the bugle plays at the end begining and end of each...
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    Wal-Mart pwns brain-damaged former employee

    I normally don't read CNN but came across this headline article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/...mart.insurance.battle/ I know ATOT has some strong feelings on Wal-Mart, and I've often found myself defending them.. but in this case it's a little harder to do.
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    Recommend me a good multiplayer (online) game

    I've been out of the hardcore PC gaming scene for years and years now. Just recently, a friend and I began rekinding our first love of nearly a decade ago by playing the demo versions of Quake 2 and Quake 3 versus each other (with a few bots thrown in, for good measure). Anyways, after a...
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    any freeware partition recovery application?

    My father-in-law's hard drive apparently took a dump. His machine will not boot into Windows-- instead he gets an error message stating there was a problem with with "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL". When I tried to poke around the drive after connecting as a second drive to my PC, it claims...
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    any free-lance artists here?

    Some friends of mine are starting up a new martials arts school, and want a logo. The style they are looking for a simple black outline drawing of two people engaging in a martial arts move. No color, no shading, no facial or clothing details, just a simple outline using curved lines of...
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    hosting a madden tournament

    My lovely wife is throwing me a 30th birthday party. Since a lot of my close friend will be there, and we all play Madden, I have decided to turn it into a Madden tournament instead (or in addition to, I suppose). Between the food (my wife makes the best party food) and games, it should be a...
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    The wife and I got into our deepest philisophical debate yet

    being kicked in the groin (for a man) is at all comparable to labor pains (for a woman). Apparently I lost this argument... thank goodness I find our couch extremely comfortable. :-( Am I the only man that has ever wondered this? Or the only one stupid enough to casually mention it...
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    new puzzle time

    After all of the arguing going on in the Monty Hall thread, I thought it'd be time for a new puzzle to argue about. I came across this one a few days ago and found it a little intriguing. In 3000 years the surface of the Earth is flooded and covered with water due to global warming. The...
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    safe to run cable through return air conduit?

    I'm installing a TV in the kitchen for the wife, and it seems the easiest way for me to run cable to it would be run it into an interior wall which is apprently serving as a return air conduit down to the basement. I already have cable run to the same area in the basement where the return air...
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    best program to image or copy a dying hard drive?

    Can someone recommend me a good program to use to image or copy data from a dying hard drive? I have a 300GB Seagate with tons of bad sectors, and it's only getting worse. Unfortunately, it's my primary boot drive. I have a brand new 300GB Seagate that I'd like to use. I know I can get...
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    anyone have, or ever installed, a tiffany-style island light?

    A friend of mine's uncle passed away a few months ago, and this past weekend they were going through his basement when they found an unused tiffany-style island light. My friend had no use for it, so he offered it to me. For those that don't know... it looks somewhat like this...
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    73-year old driver has her personlized plates revoked.

    From http://www.newsnet5.com/automotive/9628955/detail.html I've never actually seen NWTF used all that often... :confused:
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    Wife's car just got hit and run...

    My wife was waiting in line at a traffic light... the light turned green, and an old lady driver who had been waitng behind her apparently hit her as she was accelerating. My wife pulls over, expecting the other lady to do so as well.. but instead, she kept going right by. My wife wrote...
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    YACT: How to remove door panel on '01 Sebring...

    My wife got in a little accident this morning with the garage door... as she was backing out of the garage, she didn't notice her driver's side mirror being ripped off the by garage door railing. Anyways, I know have a pile of cheap plastic bits and mirror shards everywhere, but most of the...
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    Buyer/Leasee has apparently backed out of buying domain name

    Late last year, I got an offer from a real estate broker in another state to buy my as yet undeveloped real-estate website (essentially just rights to the domain name). We drew up a lease contract where they would lease it for four months, with monthly payments due each month. At the end of...
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    Wow... talk about mistaken identity

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    bad 2d graphics adapter performance?

    Ok... I have an AGP ATI Radeon X800 Pro and for as long as I can recall, I've had pretty sucky 2d performance. Screen redraws/refreshes are slow, and moving or scrolling windows with content in them causes by CPU usage to jump to 70 to 80%. This is especially noticable when scrolling through...
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    Was Colber's White House bit funny?

    Just trying to settle something from this thread here Are you pro-Bush or anti-Bush? Did you find Colbert's speech at the Correspondent's dinner hilarious, or was it just "meh"?
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    Anyone had a new lawn put in?

    A little more than a year ago my wife and I moved into a 1-year old house. Apparently the builder removed all the topsoil, removed the larger rocks and debris, and threw down grass seed. We now have a yard that is very thin, full of weeds, and full of small rocks/wood chips/etc. Last summer...
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    Several Positions Open At My Old Employer

    There are two openings for pretty nice positions at my old employer in Cleveland, a software application provider for the cable & satellite industry. They are looking for a systems analyst and a business analyst. For the systems analyst position, they are looking for someone with Redhat...
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    My wife's passport has her maiden name on it...

    Any travel gurus out there? Ok, my wife and I are getting ready to finalize our vacation plans-- we plan on staying in Aruba. Anyways, Aruba is a foreign nation so obviously we'll need our passports. Not a problem-- I got my passport a few years back, and she still has hers from before...
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    Recommend me a place to stay in Aruba

    Ok... on the advice of friends both in RL and here on ATOT, I've decided to take my wife to Aruba to celebrate our 5th anniversay. Now the question for those that have been there-- where would you recommend staying? The Renaisscance sounds nice with its own private island, but the Divi is...
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    Name me some of the best 90s alt rock songs

    I'm trying to complete my MP3 collection, which at the moment completely sucks azz. I'd like to load up on some 90s alt rocks songs-- stuff they used to play all the time when I was back in college-- but isn't played much anymore. Anyway-- I already have songs from some of the bigger...