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BBC’s 100 book list
Feb 25th
I do this here because I am too stupid to figure out how to do a “note” on farce book. They say that most people only have read 6 of these… Are they serious, and I consider myself to be a pretty mundane lame trailer park kinda guy.
So I’ve read 48 of them and yes all the ones I liked were kids books, learn to cope.
put a X by ones y’all read.
put a + by the ones y’all liked.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X+
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – X
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy X
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X+
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X+
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X+
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X+
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood X+
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding X+
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce X
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White X+
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams X+
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X+
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
FiddlerCap and HTTP protocol debugging
Jan 29th
Capturing web traffic
Introduction
If you’ve reached this page, chances are good that you were asked to capture a HTTP log file. Usually, this action is performed to track down a bug in your web browser or a website.
You can use Microsoft FiddlerCap to take a snapshot of HTTP traffic, and send that snapshot to facilitate troubleshooting the bug.
To get started, just follow the steps below.
Step-by-step Instructions
- Download Microsoft FiddlerCap.
- Close all instances of Internet Explorer.
- Install FiddlerCap by running the FiddlerCapSetup.exe file.
- FiddlerCap should start automatically when the installer completes.
If it doesn’t start, you can start it from the START menu. - Unless specifically asked to skip this step:
Inside FiddlerCap, click the Clear Cookies button and then the Clear Cache button. - Inside FiddlerCap, click the Start Capture button.
- A new Internet Explorer window will appear. Use Internet Explorer’s address bar to go to whatever site is having problems, and do whatever steps are needed to cause the problem to occur.
- Verify that new lines (representing HTTP requests) are showing up in the FiddlerCap window.
- Inside FiddlerCap, click the Stop Capture button.
- Inside FiddlerCap, click the Save Capture button.
Save the .SAZ file to your desktop. - Email the .SAZ file from your desktop to your friend.
If you have a problem performing any of these steps, contact your friend and tell them at which step there was a problem. Be sure to communicate any error messages you encountered.
Reading .SAZ files.
Fiddler2, the reader for the .SAZ files can be downloaded here.
If you were asked to make a capture log, you do not need to download and install this file. It is only included here for reference.
fiddlercap and fiddler2 are copyright © Microsoft Corporation.
Pretty women who are older then you.
Jan 29th
Women from way back when were a lot prettier. Jane Mansfield, Betty Page and Audry Hepburn are my favorites. I will add more beautiful women here when I am able.
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Six train woes….
Jan 14th
This morning, no different then last morning other the the explanation, I arrived at the NYC Metro station right on time to get to work at 10:15am. Paid my paltry 2 dollar fare for access to the wonderful sights and smells existing in the station. And I waited. An uptown 6 went by. More waiting, a downtown 4 came and went. More wait… another uptown 6 goes by followed by another uptown 6. This went on for 15 minutes, just when I was thinking I should take a 4 downtown, the 6 downtown arrived. Horay, it went 2 stations, Next stop on this train will be 14th, there is a 6 directly behind. Ok, get out, wait. wait some more. Directly behind? 3 trains went past going uptown until the next downtown 6 came by. got on, AFTER the train started to move, NEXT stop 42nd followed by 14th. Great. Well, I figured that I’d get a 6 uptown from 14th street. That only took another 10 minutes and 3 trains going downtown. I only arrived an hour late to work today. Pretty good for manhattan I guess.
What a way to run a railroad.
libOpenMetaverse
Jan 8th
libOpenMetaverse (formerly libSecondLife) is a very interesting project. Basically, it’s a library in C# is used for connecting to the secondlife grid. I’ve been playing with 0.5.0 (last official release apparently) and also with /trunk.
I’ve been able to work my around into creating a name2key and key2name functions for the included testclient app. (yea, basically taking the example code for these and moving them to the testclient code but it’s not as simple as it sounds so there)
Next up… group utilities and also moving the console dumps to IMs to master