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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Quickie: URL Form Decoding
Here’s a little utility function I use to decode application/x-www-form-urlencoded strings on the iPhone: – (NSDictionary*)extractArguments:(NSString*)raw { NSArray* args = [raw componentsSeparatedByString:@”&”]; NSMutableDictionary* rv = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:[args count]]; for (NSString* sPair in args) { NSArray* aPair = [sPair componentsSeparatedByString:@”=”]; NSString* … Continue reading
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ARA General Belgrano
The USS Phoenix (CL-46) was built in Camden, New Jersey, and launched in 1938. She was anchored at Pearl Harbor during the December 7th attack, but was not damaged. She served throughout the Pacific during WWII, receiving 9 battle stars. … Continue reading
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Roy Jones Jr.
I recently had the opportunity to watch tape of the vast majority of Roy Jones Jr.’s fights. Today, a few thoughts on a remarkable career. Overview The conventional wisdom on RJJ is that he was a superlatively physically gifted athlete … Continue reading
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Dating Advice
If you’re a woman interested in persuading a man that you’re wife material, it might be best to avoid mentioning that you’ve read (or, worse, liked) “Eat Pray Love“. The whole celebration-of-the-breaking-of-commitments thing probably isn’t the message you want to … Continue reading
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Foreign Expressions
The Chinese (near?) equivalent to “casting pearls before swine” is “playing music to the cows”. I think it’s cute.
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NSURL, Trailing Slashes, and OAuth
Here’s a surprisingly important note from the documentation for the NSURL class’ path method: Return Value The path of the URL, unescaped with the stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: method. If the receiver does not conform to RFC 1808, returns nil. If this URL … Continue reading
Pacquiao/Mosley
Well, Pacquiao vs. Mosley is scheduled for 7 May. When I first thought about this fight (after Mayweather/Mosley), I thought it would be an easy win for Mosley; even after he was out-boxed by Mayweather, I figured that Mosley was … Continue reading
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Happy Things
The blog’s been getting a little grumpy lately, so, today, just a list of a few things and people that I like: Glass backlights on convertibles. I think they add a little bit to the cost of the car, but … Continue reading
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