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And you thought I just some moron

Published 13 August 8 11:37 PM | William

Many folks north of Miami-Dade county have never heard of El Chupacabra. And if you try tipping them off to it, they laugh at you like your some kind of moron. At least that's what they did when I told them. I've been warning people of the dangers...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Chupacabra

The downside to copy and paste

Published 28 December 7 12:1 AM | William

As much time as I spend on computers, it's really hard to imagine life without the Clipboard. Copy/Cut/Paste is such a handy feature I couldn't begin to calculate how much time and effort it's saved me. However, it's definitely caused...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology

"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

Published 21 December 7 2:25 AM | William

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

The Bill of Rights in 2007

Published 18 December 7 10:31 PM | William

So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology, Security

Business Travel Sucks

Published 13 December 7 1:9 AM | William

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

Published 5 December 7 2:9 PM | William

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Truer words have not been spoken

Published 30 November 7 11:55 PM | William

Raymond Lewallen posted the following on his Twitter page . if i get one more vampire bite thingy whatever from facebook, i'm going to kick @ CalebJenkins in the nuts! Its seems to have started there. about 8 hours ago from Witty I know I'm out...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me

Another major data breach

Published 22 November 7 1:24 AM | William

Although this time the incompetence and sloppiness wasn't the Veteran's Administration . In each of the stories of this sort that I remember, the data turns up a few weeks later, is blamed on some small and innocent mistake and all kinds of assurances...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology

Fighting the Bull

Published 7 September 7 10:15 AM | William

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Cool Stuff

Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

Published 4 September 7 3:44 AM | William

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

JesOS (TM) The First True Christian (TM) Operating System

Published 4 September 7 3:9 AM | William

I'm probably going to hell for even reading this, let alone posting a link to it. Atheists/Agnostics and Christians that can laugh at some of the less desirable aspects of their faith will get a good chuckle out of it. If you are of the persuasion...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Man bites dog

Published 3 September 7 6:16 PM | William

A few of these clips are definitely NSFW b/c of the language. In fact, more than a few are. But if you look at some of Jimmy Justice's video , you'll probably laugh your butt off. Basically, he's a citizen vigilante who goes around and photographs...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Passenger's bill of duties

Published 9 August 7 10:39 AM | William

Athough it's been relatively slow in the past few months, I typically have to engage in a good bit of air travel and it seems that many developers/consultants I know are in the same boat.. TSA and similar concerns have made air travel more frustrating...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Coding Arguments - aka How to Start Religious Wars

Published 23 July 7 5:33 AM | William

I am lucky enough to work for a company that really encourages us to get together and learn/hang out etc. One way this happens is by Tech Nights. Basically, we have in office meetings which are recorded via Live Meeting, where someone picks a topic and...

Filed under: Data Access, Life in General, Coding Techniques

Pimpology Law 11 - Avoid Gorillas and Godzillas

Published 22 July 7 10:12 PM | William

I'm somewhat hesitant to write this because I really want people to buy this book. However I figured from all the freaking emails I'm getting asking if I'm serious, I probably ought to make it clear that Yes, I am totally serious about this...

Filed under: Life in General, Books, Pimpology, Pimpin Ken

The stupidity of this amazes me

Published 22 July 7 9:27 PM | William

I had to read a book called The Bell Curve about ten years ago. It was very controversial and I bought it, I just didn't buy the reasoning (don't think race was at the heart of the differences). He pointed out that smart people were having fewer...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General

Pimpology vs Harry Potter

Published 21 July 7 4:44 AM | William

On Fridays, Kim and I typically go to P.F. Changs for dinner and then go to Barnes and Noble to and go book shopping. Tonight everything was going well, and after dinner we walked across the street to B & N. At some point, I started having flashbacks...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Books, Mindless Babbling

The coolest campaign ad ever

Published 6 March 7 2:11 AM | William

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Programmers do actually make suckier interfaces than other people

Published 5 February 7 1:56 AM | William

Aaron's post asserts that programmers aren't to blame for crappy UIs and I'm not sure he's right about that point. As a programmer and software user, I have to say that most of the truly terrible user interfaces I've seen in my life were not the result...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling