This is a test, I think my hosting is hosed. UPDATE: For some reason my blog is either not taking long posts, or it is not liking a lot of markup. I tried to post 125 lines from a chat transcript and it kept on choking. Weird thing is I have been posting some long [...]

Big TV night, two of my favorite shows had a season finale, and a third one ended for good. Rome: Sucked. Worst Rome episode probably ever. They took too many licenses with the historical context. Plus the damn series is over, CRAP. Battlestar Galactica: Sucked except for the last 15 minutes. The last 15 minutes [...]

I am having a weird issue that is driving one of my customers (and by extension, my fearless leader and myself) god damn crazy: I built my customer a site that uses the new security model for ASP.net 2.0. I use the standard SQL provider, only mine points to the project’s SQL Server database instead [...]

Slashdot picked up this NYT story on the passing of John, W. Backus: John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82. Programming is a [...]

Phil Greenspun just posted an interesting take on the Airbus A380 arrival in the states earlier today. The article is so short that I can’t quote from it without copying the whole thing, so I’ll give you a teaser: The A380 can transport one person for 95 miles on one gallon of fuel. There’s more [...]

Mail.app can send and read mail from pretty much anything. Except Outlook 2003. “Sure, but Outlook is a piece of shit!” The problem with Outlook is that piece of shit is used by pretty much everyone that doesn’t have a Mac. And that’s a lot of people. There’s 6 of us at my company, only [...]

Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek – Yahoo! News: MINNEAPOLIS – A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen [...]

I got screwed over the weekend by a bad code sample from authorize.net, so I decided to post my fix here, for a rainy day. The problem? The sample code ran, but it kept rejecting my test transactions even if the account is set to test mode and I was sending out x_test_request=TRUE. I couldn’t [...]

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Finally, I managed to watch a movie based on a comic book that I have never read. God knows I needed to lose some nerd points. 300 is a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae between Sparta and Persia. Wikipedia claims the movie is a frame-by-frame recreation of the comic book. So, how was [...]