08/25/2003Home Depot, Bad Service, and The Self Service Register LieWell friends, Home Depot lost out on my big expenditure tonight. After spending the day clearing wallpaper from the downstairs bathroom, removing the medicine cabinet with its hideous side mounted fluorescent lights - encased in bug encrusted plastic, of ......
08/24/2003Cool Tech: Live- from "Chuck -E- Cheese's"Its Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a birthday party to attend, being held in Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's" pizza & playground place. This is a brightly colored, very loud, warehouse of a building filled with ......
08/23/2003Couple of fire calls this week...Couple of calls this week. The first was cool even though it was a false alarm. Cool only because I got to drive the big Ladder truck (which I'm finally signed off to drive & operate) code-3 (flashy & noisy) to the scene. Fun, but unnerving to drive ......
08/23/2003Helping friends with their PC's - Why is this necessary?As you can imagine, my somewhat double career leaves me with one circle of friends among the technologically elite, but another almost entirely devoid of basic computer troubleshooting skills. That means I get to help clean up from viruses and things from ......
08/22/2003Electronic Voting for Public OfficeNobody, dear readers, knows the vulnerabilities of computer systems as well as you, the techno-illuminati of the age. The masses are screaming for these electronic voting machines but nothing could be more dangerous to our fragile democracy than wrong ......
08/22/2003New feature on this siteOk all, I've added a new feature on this site for rating the topics. If you click this, its anonymous, its fast, and it gives me feedback as to what kind of stuff you like and what kind of stuff you don't. That does not, of course, mean I'll necessary do ......
08/22/2003So, is it cool to have a sidebar ad?So tell me, dear readers, is it considered too uncool to put a sidebar box up with an advertisement for your own work or product on your blog? You tell me, what do you think? If you don't want to reply publically, send me ......
08/22/2003A faster way to update data!Notes comparisons as well. In this case, we get a dump of 2.6 million records to compare with the 60,000 or so notes documents, and have to check for changes and updates as necessary. The server is a 2 processor 300mhz machine with an old RAID system. No race car. The data we get is extremely denormalized SQL Result set data. For example, the user "X" had 360 rows of data in the Oracle view that we have to read, and he's just one person. Why so many? It has to do with the way that view is created for us. ......
08/22/2003Blogo Ergo SumSince the invention of the written word, people have kept journals and diaries. They've been personal places for troubled spirits to pour out their hearts or they've been strictly business. Consider the journal of an intrepid explorer, writing by candle ......
