You've Been Haacked For a Year
I’ve kept a couple of other blogs before, but this is my first with staying power. My blog new year resolutions include being even more irreverent, geeky, rash, and misguided (if even possible). It’s been one year, and I recently passed the 500 post mark without even noticing (I hate missing an opportunity to party).
Read MoreHILARIOUS VIDEO: A Modern Day Supermarket Rocky.
You must watch this video.
Read MoreBought Tickets To Burning Man
My buddy Kyle and I both purchased
tickets to Burning Man
today. Still waiting to hear from a few other friends and other burners
who might be in attendance. I went with several years
ago
and am looking forward to my triumphant return. ;)
New York New York Big City Of Dreams
Props to any,one who can tell me the song and artist that my subject line refers to.
Read MoreBeating CAPTCHA With A Neural Network
As if to punctuate my post entitled
Image Based CAPTCHA is Fast Losing it’s
Appeal, Casey
outlines his .NET
code used to
beat the CAPTCHA employed by many blogs using a Neural Network approach.
Predatory Blogging - Blogging Someone Else's Life
Received this comment on my “Blogging Is Pure Vanity” Post.
Read MoreWhy Must The "Reply To All" Button Be Right Next To The "Reply" Button?
Every Friday the company buys lunch. Today we all received an email with the list of choices from a Thai restaurant. I replied with “Orange Chicken”. Soon afterwards one of my coworkers thanks me for letting him know I’m having Orange Chicken. Huh?
Read MoreUsing Light Bulbs To Signal Build State
Oh yes, this is geeky! Craig
Wangdera
posted the source code he wrote that lights up physical light bulbs with
the status of his build using
CruiseControl.NET. For
example, the yellow bulb lights up when a build is in progress while a
green bulb lights up if the last build was successful. See the full size
picture and source
here.
C# .NET Quizzes
Colin has a nice little quiz about enumeration on his blog. Basically he asks, how would you implement a class to enumerate through all the letters of the alphabet. Below is my “cute” response.
Read MoreSQL TIP: Prefixing Stored Procedure With "sp_" Gives Your SP a Bad Name
Found this interesting article via Hassan Voyeau that details the performance penalty when naming your stored procedure with an sp_ prefix in a database other than the master database.
Read MoreMUSIC: My Finger Is On The Button
If you’re a fan of good music (I mean objectively, not subjectively) I plan to recommend a few songs here and there in this blog. Never mind the fact that if you end up purchasing the songs via my site, I get paid. I give you my word, a vow, that I will never lead you musically astray. I may lead you astray in other ways, but not in music.
Read MoreDrag and Drop an RSS (or ATOM) Link Into RSS Bandit
Given that I’ve written much of the documentation for RSS Bandit on the documentation site and have spent a lot of time in the code making a few contributions here and there, I feel a bit sheepish that I didn’t know about this particular feature.
Read MoreA Spot Of Tea
Being married to a Japanese woman, I’ve cultivated a love of tea. Although Koreans have great tea as well, it doesn’t figure as highly in the culture as it does for the Japanese.
Read More30 Trips Around The Sun
Today marks the completion of my thirtieth trip around the sun. And it’s been a scenic ride. Much love and thanks to my lovely wife for putting together a little shindig for me and a few of our closest friends. Great food and drink were consumed and a good time was had by all.
Read MoreSQL QUIZ: The Difference Between ISNULL and COALESCE
What will the last two lines print. Will they be the same?
Read MoreReverse Comment Moderation. Or Better Yet...
rel="willfollowforfood"
I’m proposing a new attribute. Place rel=”willfollowforfood” in your link and I will index it in exchange for food.
Read MoreWhy Is rel="nofollow" important?
There’s a debate going on about how effective the rel=”nofollow” solution really is. Some believe that Google is flattering itself by thinking that the primary motivation for comment spam is Google juice.
Read MoreLooking Directly At Me Is Forbidden
From now on, no person, whether an individual or a body corporate, shall look directly upon my person nor speak of me without my written permission. I was inspired to enact this notice by this tidbit from Raymen Chen.
Read MoreIt's Official, Monday January 24 To Be The Wost Day Of The Year
A Dr. at Cardiff University has created a scientific formula to prove that January 24th will be the worst day of the year.
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