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What does smoking cost?

Lady: Do you smoke? Guy: Yes I do. Lady: How many packs a day? Guy: 3 packs. Lady: How much per pack? Guy: $10.00 per pack. Lady: And how long have you been smoking? Guy: 15 years Lady: So 1 pack is $10.00 and you have been smoking...[...]
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Apple Meets Fish Tank

What happens if your old iMac G3 needs some vacation? Let's have a look... Image credits: http://gadgetsin.com/imacquarium-fish-tank-built-with-imac-g3.htm[...]
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Feedback Error 404

Have you ever used a homepage which did not work properly? I visited such a webpage. My visit was about a small phone number lookup. Overwhelmed by a big old style home page including a thousand links and advertising links, I tried to figure out...[...]
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Funny coding

Have a look at these funny lines of code. To protect the innocent you can read a slightly different version below: Useful comments are useful: // Class implementing Anyclassname class Anyclassname { ... } What about the opposite, is th...[...]
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New Datatypes "Lang" and "Kurz"

Recently I have been browsing Microsoft's website... I was reading some documentation pages... and suddenly I had to laugh! What do you think, how many bytes fit inside a "Lang"? Somehow English and German got mixed up, even though I selec...[...]
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