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	<title>Randomly Intermittent Thoughts</title>
	<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog</link>
	<description>Thoughts I have pondered, but may not be wholely original...</description>
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		<title>When you want your computer to sleep for the Winter, call on Wizmo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was digging around the interwebs looking to find out how I can hibernate a computer from the command line.  My first thought was &#8220;Oh, the shutdown command might work&#8221;, but nope.  It doesn&#8217;t have a hibernate option.  The I went to Google and did a search for it.  A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2010/02/19/computer-sleep-for-the-winter-call-on-wizmo/</link>
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		<title>Make It Yourself: Preschool Math Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was reading other blogs, I found an interesting article on Parenting Science about preschoolers and math board games.
Direct link is here: Preschool math games.
What I liked was the fact they discuss a game that can be created by both the parent and preschooler (fun for the whole family).  But it also teaches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2010/01/07/make-it-yourself-preschooler-math-board-game/</link>
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		<title>Final Static Objects = the Devil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does this code output?
No fair, running it!
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JAVA:




public class Hmm &#123;


&#160; &#160; public static class X&#123;


&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; int x = -1;


&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; public X&#40;&#41;&#123;&#125;


&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; public X&#40;int x &#41;&#123;setX&#40;x&#41;;&#125;


&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; public int getX&#40;&#41;&#123;return x;&#125;


&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; public void setX&#40;int x&#41;&#123;this.x = x;&#125;


&#160; &#160; &#125;


&#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/09/03/final-static-objects-the-devil/</link>
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		<title>More Utilities/Programs/Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More tools that I think I are vital.  Was just reading an article about what things to backup during an OS reinstallation, so I thought I would post some more of the utilities I found useful or needed.

Mozilla Firefox, the foxy way to browse:
http://www.getfirefox.com
Mozilla Thunderbird, emailing with Thunder:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
7-zip, the only way to extract:
http://www.7-zip.org/
Truecrypt, encrypting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/08/13/more-utilitiesprogramstools/</link>
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		<title>The Simple Things in Life (or the Tools/Utilities I Find Most Useful)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Baretail, 'tail -f' for Windows:
http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
CommitMonitor, I'z n yr Subversion, wachin' yr commits:
http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor
The Whole Sysinternals Suite, Windows Exposed:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals
Notepad++, Editing Made Easy:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

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		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/07/29/the-simple-things-in-life-or-the-toolsutilities-i-find-most-useful/</link>
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		<title>Who Knew XOR Was So Hard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[XOR in C++

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-179920.html
http://bytes.com/groups/c/215986-why-isnt-there-logical-xor-operator

Final Recommendation:
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// 'a' and 'b' are some sort of integer type.


// the double NOTs coerce to a standard boolean type


// (compiler dependent)


!!a ^ !!b 






Thankfully Java is easier
http://www.sap-img.com/java/java-boolean-logical-operators.htm
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// 'a' and 'b' are of boolean type


// yay, no coercion necessary!


a ^ b 






I didn’t know that the ^ operator was overloaded to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/07/29/who-knew-xor-was-so-hard/</link>
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		<title>Getting the serialVersionUID Programmatically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work I have been tasked with some Java serialization issues and I needed a quick way to get the serialversionUid from a class.
I tried the serialver command that comes with the JDK, but I didn't like that I had to setup the full classpath (which for us can be quite large, lots of jars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/02/11/getting-the-serialversionuid-programmatically/</link>
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		<title>Reverse an Array in Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking through some code.  I noticed that an array needed to be reversed and that the original order was never needed again.  This was a perfect time to reverse the array in place.  This was Java so I looked in the Arrays class.  But alas there wasn't a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/15/reverse-an-array-in-place/</link>
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		<title>Yet Another Reason to Love Process Explorer — Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit different from my last post about Process Explorer.  Process Explorer is so powerful that I accidentally killed a different process than I wanted. This wasn't through some fancy schmancy search with regular expressions and kill accident.  I just highlighted a process and clicked the .
I then proceeded to click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-%e2%80%94-part-2/</link>
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		<title>onbeforeunload IE7 Woes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was just having a problem getting the IE7 onbeforeunload event to be canceled.  Found this blog about it:  OnBeforeUnload, IE7, Assigning event handlers to null and the problems that arise.
Pretty simple, just wrap the return with a boolean:
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JAVASCRIPT:




var goodExit = false;


window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;


function confirmExit&#40;&#41;


&#123;


&#160; // normally this if-check wouldn't be here,


&#160; // [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/onbeforeunload-ie7-woes/</link>
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