Archive for March, 2009
What is SQL?
Mar 28th
Had an interesting question at work today… “Steve, on any of your sites, do you have anything that explains what SQL is? I mean, I know its a database or something, but what exactly does that mean?” Now, the guy that asked this question is still young and still pretty new to the IT industry.…
Alan Keyes rips into Obama
Mar 23rd
Quite aside from the constitutional questions regarding Barack Obama’s place of birth, the economic statements from Alan Keyes in this video are very true and something I have been arguing for a long time. You cannot buy debt with money that doesn’t exist! You cannot simply turn around and print a whole heap of paper…
Culling the herd with Russian Roulette
Mar 22nd
Some games are just stupid. Simply plain stupid. And these are games that are perfect for culling the herd as it were. Remove the low hanging fruit from the reproductive cycle. Russian Roulette is one of those games. This seems to me to be the perfect game for guys like this. Anyone dumb enough to…
Helpful Bus
Mar 19th
Everyone knows of the Bang Bus… Well, they definitely leave themselves open to lampooning and spoofing (yes, snicker away) and so this video of the Helpful Bus is just all the funnier for it. :-) It is PG rated. It contains no sexual content beyond a brief spot of kissing near the end. :-) Mild…
Goodbye Video Card
Mar 18th
Poor computer. Oh woe is my computer. My nvidia 9600GT video card died the death tonight. Can’t explain why other than I think the Cuda app I’ve been running may be partially responsible. Combined with the ambient temperature of a closed up room during the day, I wonder if maybe the card over cooked. At…
Wise man’s hell?
Mar 17th
A fools paradise is a wise man’s hell. – Thomas Fuller I guess that puts me in an interesting position. Because I am within a hell of my own making, and doing very little to get out of it. But now its starting to encroach upon the things I want to do. And is that…
Goodbye Commodore
Mar 9th
The family dog finally succumbed to the cancer on Monday. The vet said he wouldn’t last a weekend, yet he held on nearly 2 weeks so my brother could return from his honeymoon and say goodbye. Commodore finally gave up eating and drinking anything after Tim got back in the country, so today (Monday) the…
Howto: Are you sure? prompt in Outlook
Mar 6th
I had a really bad day at work on Thursday. A client asked me to research something for them regarding Outlook. Ideally they want a server side (Exchange) solution where possible, but given thats not possible, a client side script is necessary. VBScript in Outlook. :-/ Two products I really do not like. But, what…
The new controversy about sponsored posts
Mar 4th
Google’s Matt Cutts and ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, along with about a million professional bloggers around the intarwebs, are talking about a new whitepaper by Forrester Research in which they say companies should consider paying bloggers to write articles about them. I personally use the nofollow property for nearly every external link on this site. What…
Northern Trust to repay party money
Mar 3rd
One thing I learned growing up was that you valued something when you actually earned it. You never took care of other peoples belongings anywhere near as well as you take care of your own property that you have earned or paid for yourself. So it was no surprise when TMZ broke the news about…