Dude what the hell! I was happily writing some code for a friend’s website this morning only to be interrupted by the sound of our door bell. Figuring it was a door to door sales person, I ignored it. So they rang it again. Son of a bitch! I don’t …
So Dan and I talked about this at length so I figured it deserved some time in the spotlight with a new vote topic! So the issue was brought up about whether it is ok to bring reading material in a public restroom when you have to, well, drop the …
So now that it is all over I figured it was time to blog about it. A few weeks ago Corey and I made our yearly trip to RenFest. This time we were going to meet up with Sean and Alex. It was their first time to go and I …
I’m free! I finally cancelled my MySpace account! After getting another "friend whore" request from someone trying to sell my Cialis, I finally dropped the hammer. It is been a long time coming. For many reasons: MySpace devalues important friendly relationships. This is the single most important reason for me …
It looks like Paul is at it again with an update to the MyBS engine. This time around, the focus was on JDBC and represents some significant strides for the project. I usually like to benchmark some of the new features and things, but being that these days I dabble …
So I bought Good Charlotte’s latest album yesterday . I had already bought Dance Floor Anthem off iTunes but the rest of the album is quite good so I figured the CD was worth the purchase. I figured since I had the CD, it would be fun to see how …
So last week MySQL was on site at work for MySQL DBA Certification prep. class (which was very awesome and highly recommended, by the way) and one of the things that came up was how much faster enumerated types would be over using JOINs, say to store things like the …
After months of saving and searching, we finally ended up with a 2008 Electric Blue Volkswagen Jetta 2.5. While our old Sunfire was Corey’s first new car, this was mine, and what an experience it was. We had been looking at Jettas for some time and were pretty set on …
When did people decide that it was a good idea to devalue friendships? Every so often, I seem to get random friend requests with comments like "You’re cute, let’s hang out" and a promiscuous picture of someone with far too much make-up on or random creepy people that act like …