If you are a long time Windows user it is pretty much an article of faith that the PDF standard sucks donkey balls. You just simply learn to dread the arrival of anything as a PDF. If you are a Linux user, you just can’t visualize this hassle, since PDFs just work. They just do, [...]

Jani Taskinen, one of the lead php nerds at Zend, quit in a cryptic listserv message. Oh the soap opera goodness… Why do I think this is going to boil over in a day or two and will eventually be explained as a misunderstanding. Yeah. Technorati Tags: php

I finally got off my ass and decided to go to the National Air & Space Musem at Dulles Airport. The official name is “The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center” but everyone simply calls it the “Dulles Annex.” It was fricking awesome. I shot over 650 frames. 630 of those with my Nikon D50 and the [...]

Today I was delivered my “real” SD card, this one is a 2GB, 150X. Big difference. During normal shooting it is almost impossible to overwhelm the buffer. I imagine that I will hit a wall on continuous shooting, but so far I have been taking 100 shots at a time trying to follow PJ around [...]

Just a few months after I grabbed the Sony DSC-P200, Costco made me an offer I couldn’t refuse and I am now the proud owner of a Nikon D50. I have written previously about the D50 here, here and here. For $800 Costco sold me a D50, a Nikkor 28-80mm AF-G zoom lens, a Nikkor [...]

Slashdot is running one of their famous dumbass article plugs without the benefit of a reality check. Since it is early in the thread most of the replies are actually readable and I agree with most of them. Here’s the deal: if you are still concatenating sql commands, you are dead wrong. You should be [...]

For the past 24 hours or so I have had a little bit of a Pink Floyd song stuck in my head. The song is “One of these days” which is the opening for Meddle. The part of the song stuck in replay in my brain is the part where Nick Mason says “one of [...]

One of the problems with telecommuting is that I like to have background noise, so I keep the TV running even if I am not really paying attention. Because of this I get to the point that I hit the programming loops in the documentary channels and it gets annoying after a while. I have [...]

This is all you need to know about Superman Returns: Here’s Scott’s review: My Superman Returns review Posted on Sunday, July 2, 2006 My name is Scott Richard Kurtz. I’m six years old and when I grow up I want to be Superman. That’s pretty much all I took out of that theatre. That’s pretty [...]

My current employer is still looking for an additional programmer, this is a full-time, direct hire position. This is the posting as it is going to be sent out to the job boards: We are a boutique consulting company that develops and supports complex custom web applications for a diverse client base of government agencies, [...]