Mortgages And Leadership
I saw Thank You for Smoking over the weekend, a great movie, and I wasn’t planning on writing anything specific about it, but an article that I read this morning (and I guess thinking about the current circumstances of my...
Monthly Archive: April 2007
Photo Tour Of China
Rediscovered an awesome photolog of a tour of China today. Note to self: visit China.
Washington Post Narrative On VT Shootings
The Washington Post has a great narrative on the VT shootings.
Politics…As Usual
Something about the statements in a transcript from Bill Maher’s show is really scary and yet it evokes a “HAHA WTF IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY…LOL” feeling in my mind. New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word,...
Enterprise Library 3.0 Released
I just noticed moments ago that the final release of Enterprise Library 3.0 released recently. Unfortunately, after a quick glance at the documentation, it seems like ObjectBuilder has been left off the table (link goes to online documentation for ObjectBuilder,...
Updating Reporting Services 2000 Connection Info
If you’re running Reporting Services 2000 and you accidentally change the password or remove the original account used by Reporting Services, you will have to update this information. With Reporting Services 2005, there’s a nice GUI utility that you can use to...
More Buffoonery From The Music Industry
Argh! A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The panel’s...
Liviu Librescu: Hero
The story of how Liviu Librescu, a 76 year old professor, sacrificed his life to save the lives of his students is a must read for anyone following the Virginia Tech shootings. Students of Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering science...
Random Developer Rant
I have to say, one of my big pet peeves in terms of software development is evangelizing by “senior architects” who haven’t written code in years. I’m not against evangelizing a product or technology in general, but it seems so...
Cephalopods!
I’m making this post just because cephalopods are awesome.