Taken out today: Janell
The counts: Blogging: 8; Development: 5; Other: 2; SQL: 3; WILY: 11
Line of the day:The world needs the modern equivalent of the dirty, street-squatting prophet of doom. I don't know why the world needs these people, but I'm sure they fill some purpose.
Post of the day:Philip Rieck rocked the house last night!
Honorable fortune cookie say: Programming, v.: A past time similar to banging one head against the wall, only with fewer opportunities for reward.
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There's been a swarm of thought ants eating my monkey mind the last couple of days. Time to gas them out.
- Pay attention when using Yukon's DTS with SQL 2000. I copied over a couple of tables from 2000 to Yukon for last nights demo. Didn't (pay much attention) to the transform. When sorting on what I sure was a varchar(100), it complained "cannot order by a text column" or some such nonsense. Until I look. Sure enough, the replicated columns were text. Bug or feature?
- So
Whidbey StudioVisual Studio 2005 is available on MSDN. I'm in no rush, that version isn't working with the B1 bits of Yukon. Patience is a virtuous attribute.
- If there is any Kerouac in me, pallid as it may be, my Japhy Ryder is Hilary Cotter. I've been getting sneak peeks at his forthcoming books. He dances like a Mountain Goat and bounds from ledge at the heights of the art. I'm stumbling for my footing and running 300 yards behind.
- Kelsey is leaving HDR. I'm glad for her, she is ready to move on. I'm sad for us, we're losing a good person. I'm depressed for myself: she is one of the first people I took for my team at HDR. It's like seeing your daughter move out of the house.
- One of Kelsey's mantras: be the thermostat. Lots of people (the thermometer) react to the tempo of the atmosphere. Thermostats act to set that tempo.
- If you are seeing a lot of PROPFIND requests in your IIS log, look around your internal network for Gator.
- I'm getting really frustrated that more people are still debating if they should go from VB6 to VB.NET or not. The sooner they realize at this not if but when and that if you wait until you must you've waited too long, the better. Investing in VB classic now is a fools errand.
- Some body blogged that optimists see the glass as half-full, that pessimist see the glass as half-empty and the engineers see the glass as being twice the size it needed to be. My boss corrected that, noting that if your safety factor is 2.3, the glass is far too small. That's the difference between a raconteur and an engineer.
- "Measure twice, cut once" assumes you have good cutting skills.
- If you had the same job in the same company for ten year and its the same job you came into the company with, why bother getting out of bed in the morning? whats the difference between you and a Garbage Man? At least the Garbage Man gets to see different Garbage every day.
- Nobody knows Ken Burbeck's music any more.
- Local radio -- both Omaha and Lincoln -- pretty much stink. Thank goodness for the BBC world service on our local NPR station.
- I now know more people that think Visual Studio is the worst HTML design surface who also think DreamWeaver is the best. The ratio of chrome to code is already too high and I only see it getting worse.
- Nothing pisses some Zombies off more than when you help them realize that they are a Zombie.
- We are all a bit mad, a bit off center. We either embrace our true selves and draw on that as a battery or we deny this and become our true selves become the batteries for our madness.
- How weird is it to see the mayor of your town eating having breakfast at your favorite breakfast place. In all the years I've been in towns of more than couple decokilopeople, today was the first time I saw that.
- We might be might be better of if we'd growl like bears, howl like wolves or bend like trees in the face our daily experiences rather than trying to be correct like rocks.
- Tegels first law of Economics: the rate at which something can be consumed will always be greater than the rate at which it can be provided except in the financial markets.
- Why isn't anybody offering $100,000 for a killer 64-bit platform app?