I hate it, despise it, wouldn’t do it in a million years….but we have people to make decisions on these matters and WE put them there.
Even if the medicine tasts terrible or even if we find that we have an allergy to it or even if we wind up dead for using it…are we gonna [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
May 31
Comment on Occidental Park Renovations by: gern
May 25
Connecticut encourages more sensitive football
According to this article on espn.com
The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a “score management” policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than 50 points.
This is idiotic. I think it is classless and in poor taste to run up the score, but [...]
May 21
Farewell, Larry’s Market
No. No. No. Larry’s Market filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and it is unlikely that the chain will be bought by another grocer.
At least there is a Whole Foods opening nearby, but they are snooty to sell Coke or jello. I’ll be okay, but I may cry a little.
May 21
Email address validation is hard
Lots of web sites screw up email address validation, often disallowing a gmail trick I use to track the source of some of my mail: email sent to yourname+somecomment@gmail.com is routed to yourname@gmail.com. So, if I sign up for amazon I can use myname+amazon@gmail.com. Then, when I get spammed with viagra ads I [...]
May 18
The ultimate ringer
I got a good laugh out of Jose Canseco’s most recent hobby: playing for the Valley Mets in a rec league. (Thanks to McFadden for the link).
I now know why I obsessed over this man-child over much of my adolescence. I crack up imagining how far he crushes the ball and the huge [...]
May 16
Comment on Almost Switching to Linux by: Jeff
Good idea, Joe. Should we make trendy ads about it? I don’t know if I am cool enough to be featured.
May 16
Comment on Almost Switching to Linux by: Joe Goldberg
I’m going to switch to linux after the coffeerobot alpha release. We should have a jobster-wide “switch day”
May 16
Almost Switching to Linux
I am this close to switching my desktop at work over to Linux from Windows XP.
Simply put, my brain prefer developing on *nix machines with the simple combination of emacs, a decent shell, and unixey scripts (e.g. grep, find). Sure, almost all of these tools are ported to Windows, but this comes with baggage. [...]
May 12
Austin
I spent a long weekend in Austin, Texas to attend my cousin’s wedding. I always enjoy visiting new places and comparing them to Seattle, my home town.
Observations:
Texans love their big cars. Pickups and SUVs were aplenty and I can’t recall seeing a Mini.
Texans have a lot of civic pride. The area was [...]
May 11
Comment on Oracle has no autoincrement by: George Dinwiddie
It’s no big deal, really. An autoincrement type is just syntactic sugar for the combination of a sequence and a trigger.
I do so conditionally (see http://idiacomputing.com/moin/PrimaryKeyGeneration#head-d7949da7a424b68c0ae6279e11b7e8718331321e) to allow for inserting test data using dbUnit. The sequences count natural numbers, and I use negative key values for test data so there is no conflict.