Yahoo Launches Soul-Search Engine (The Onion)
All moved in...
We’re all moved in to our new place. I took a personal day Monday so that we could put the place together and not have to live in a huge mess. Much love to Dan, Micah, and Matt for helping with the heavy lifting.
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Looking for a JOB?
I know someone looking to fill a .NET developer position. They’re paying around 75K for someone with around 2+ years of experience with ASP.NET, C#, etc… Let me know if you know someone who might be interested.
Read MoreBlast from the past
I was recently contacted by a Contractor that I worked with a loooong time ago, Hi Thomas! Funny thing is, he contacted me because he was trying to find information about Reporting Services. My former employer is all over the place when you search on those two terms.
Read MoreWe're Homeowners!
It’s finally official. We are legally,
emotionally, officially, proud owners of a townhouse style condo. For
you non-LA people, I could buy a 5 bedroom estate in Anchorage, Alaska
for what we’re paying. Heck, I could buy a 5 bedroom house in Seattle or
Portland.
Say No To Drugs and Yes! to Spying.
Koba pointed this one out to me. It’s the CIA’s Homepage for Kids. Have your budding spykid check out this page and report to the Dept of Homeland Security pronto!
Read MoreWhy is LSD use down
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LSD use is way down in recent years, according to arrest records, hospital records, and surveys with high schoolers. Slate looked into it, and came up with two reasons why. First and foremost, the DEA busted a couple of guys in rural Kansas back in 2000, who supplied 95 percent of the country’s acid. The other reason is the breakup of the Grateful Dead.
“The LSD market took an earlier blow in 1995, when Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia died and the band stopped touring. For 30 years, Dead tours were essential in keeping many LSD users and dealers connected, a correlation confirmed by the DEA in a divisional field assessment from the mid-‘90s. The spring following Garcia’s death (the season the MTF surveys are administered), annual LSD use among 12th-graders peaked at 8.8 percent and began their slide. Phish picked up part of the Dead’s fan base—and presumably vestiges of the LSD delivery system. At the end of 2000, Phish stopped touring as well, and perhaps not coincidentally, the MTF numbers for LSD began to plummet.”
Weekend Update
I don’t know if you caught Saturday Night
Live this weekend, but the Donald was hosting. He was a bombastic, self
aggrandizing, braggart in true Trump fashion. For some reason, it just
works for him.
One Tough woman!
Read MoreReuters - A woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarian section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said Tuesday.
Embedding Unit tests
I just read Bruce Eckel’s blog
entry about embedding unit tests
in code. Ideally, he’d like compiler support in programming languages
for unit tests.
Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers
Found this on Slashdot. I already am a big fan of Sake, but who knew it was so versatile?
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Geek Shopping
If you haven’t tried it yet, you should
really give Froogle a look. I’m currently looking
to buy an LCD monitor and I checked the usual suspects,
Pcworld and
Tomshardware for reviews,
Pricegrabber for prices, but due to lack
of inertia, I never thought to try Froogle.
Microsoft Sql Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer 1.0
Microsoft just released the the Microsoft Sql Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer 1.0. It’s basically FxCop for SQL Server. Very cool.
Read MoreOutsourcing is not the Devil
Now I’m every bit as much the bleeding heart
liberal as the guy to my left, but I have to say that I believe the
outcry against offshoring and outsourcing is purely a reactionary
response to the current bad economy. I don’t believe that opposition to
outsourcing is not based in sound economic principal nor is good for the
country in the long run.
Ego-Building Google Searches
Adam
Kinney
posts about finding Google phrases that return your site at #1 with
more than 100 results.
Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail
Read MoreThe search company launches Gmail, an e-mail service with so much free storage that users will never have to delete messages, it claims.
A Novel Approach to Filtering Spam
For the past few months I’ve been teaching
myself Longhorn programming via the PDC bits by building a better Spam
filter. Some of the best filters will typically use an approach based on
Bayesian probability modeling. For example, in this
article
Paul Graham discusses an improved algorithm for filtering spam
.NET Web Hosting
I’m looking to host my site and I’m ready to pay money!!! Does anyone have any recommendations? Right now, my top choices are WebHost4Life which has unlimited bandwidth, $9.95 a month, 150 MB disk space and 150 MB SQL Server space, with a $19.95 setup fee.
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