May 2005 Entries

Let me tell you how surprised I was to hit the CBC website this morning and see that a Canadian had won the Miss Universe competition. I'll also say that I just about collapsed when I saw that she was a student at Ryerson studying Information Technology Management. When I went to school for my tech stuff there was nobody that even came close to have those physical qualities in my class. Sure there was one guy who, when asked what his previous career had been, stated "Porn Star", but he wasn't really all that good looking. I...

Back in the day (1999), this was the hardware setup used to run all of Google. The scary thing for me is that this is what the server setup at one of my former employers' looked like. And that was since 1999. Hell it was as late as 2002. And the servers didn't have that much RAM. We did have a couple of PIII "servers" though. You know the kind. Joe is leaving so we'll convert his desktop into a server. A 450mhz PIII with 256MB of RAM is more than enough...

This certainly proves that I am not the only one that has had the occasion to bask in the glory of geekdom. I do wonder what the hardware that is running Excel is though?

Normally I'm despise reality TV. If you want to put 10 people to the test on a deserted island, dump them from a boat 1 km. off shore, make them swim to shore and then don't provide them with any supplies. Let the weak and stupid die, then make all surviving people (after 2 months) winners. I've had enough of giving people everything they need, rescuing them when they get hurt and making them "tough" it out for only 2 weeks. Despite my objections to the reality TV genre, I am quite fond of The Code Room. ...

Have you ever wondered why Google's main page is so simplistic and bland? Do you get excited when the Google logo changes for a special event (even if you don't know what the event is)? Well folks, Google has again done something that will change the way you look at their main page. You can customize the Google main page to include Sharepoint style webparts. You will need to create a Google account (my GMail account worked fine) so that you can save the settings. Once you've got a page with the webparts that you...

I have never been the type of person that chooses interaction with marketing types over a decade long stay in a Turkish prison. I know I've only met a small subset of these people, but they have been very consistent in their lack of personality and infection with Greased-Pig syndrome. Nothing says more about sales people than their ability to take me for lunch and have me fighting back a retch before ordering. Maybe I've seen enough of "Of course it does that" mentality just after explicitly stating that "No, it doesn't do that". All that said, here is a...

Well, I'm still sitting on the bench here at work and it looks like it will last a couple more weeks. My many journeys around the internet have led me here. This is a nice collection of Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio (2003 I'm guessing?).

I found this page today in my many journeys. It has a lot of funny little things to use for personal analysis (who really wants to pay a shrink eh?). This has to be the funniest (perhaps due to truthfulness) one yet: Your Deadly Sins Sloth: 80% Gluttony: 60% Lust: 40% Envy: 0% Greed: 0% Pride: 0% Wrath: 0% Chance You'll Go to Hell: 26% You will die with your hand down your underwear, watching Star Trek. Unfortunately it will not be a new episode, unless Friday is my last day on earth.

I do believe that I have done some rather entertaining things in my life. Heck, some of them have even been related to agriculture. This however, takes the cake.

For those of you that know me in the real world you might find this to be a funny take on where my life could be going. I think I'd start by changing my name to Daisy.

Found this today. It's a great little HTML formatter that will convert unformatted code into a piece of HTML that will appear as it would in the VS IDE. Probably the sweetest thing is that you can choose which language you want the plain code to be interpreted as. Right now you can choose from C#, VB.NET, JScript and XML.