Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - Posts
Taken out tonight: Good results, good beer, good ideas.
The counts: Blogging: 1; Development: 20; Other: 13; SQL: 10; WILY: 6;
Line of the night: If it sucks, don’t use it and don’t develop on it. That will motivate that platform, vendor, initiative, consortium, whatever to either improve it or drop it.
Posting of the night: Time to boil the ocean!
At tonight's Omaha.NET User Group Meeting, Phil Wolfe and I were talking about his lastest and greatest project. The subject of information security came up. He was describing how he was pushing data into SQL Server after it had been encrypted by his application. I asked "Why not create a User Defined Function in Yukon that had accessor methods that took care of the encryption and decryption for you? He liked that idea. I want to one up it. How about scalar UDT with save and get methods, ala the Data Protection API? That would be a neat article for SQLJunkies and I'd love to write it, but my plate is full. Anybody else want to take a shot?
No, this isn't some philosophical sharing of Wisdom about RSS, rather, I just had a Zenslap.
Just about every day, I browse to Dailyzen to see what what the thought is.
It occurred to me that if any site needed an RSS feed, this was it. I then though about writing a scrapper to do that.
THONK.
Bad idea. Zen wisdom doesn't come from seeking. Zen wisdom comes from being. Time to remember the basics and refocus my efforts on being in every moment, rather than seeking the next one.
"If you meet Buddha on your journey, kill him."
[Spinning: If I Ever Lose My Faith in You - Sting]
You're bound to become a buddha if you practice
If water drips long enough even rocks wear through
It's not true thick skulls can't be pierced
People just imagine their minds are hard.
Stonehouse, Shih-wu, 1272-1352, as translated by Red Pine
[Spinning: Meximelt - Santo Swings]