Archive for January, 2005

Escape!

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Here is a great waste of time. How long can you last?
Escape!
edit: I lasted 19.501 seconds.

Hot

Monday, January 31st, 2005

So I never thought there would be a January where I complained about the heat. But this is such a January. Its not necessarily “overly” hot outside, but because our office has such big windows right near my desk, we heat up like a pressure cooker. You’d think that air conditioning should take care of […]

.Net Training - Day 1

Monday, January 24th, 2005

Well I started my .Net training today. Not much to post about, basically got a general overview of the framework and what value and reference types are and a little about reflection. Nothing too new. All in all it was a good introduction, not candy coated, MS sales promo stuff. So, for that, I am […]

The Sims TV Show

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

So EA is pitching a new reality show based on “The Sims”. Just think, soon you will be able to tell Betty Sue to punch Billy Bob in the nose and see it all live on TV. Hmmm…. wonder if this is a good idea.
EA Mulls ‘Sims’-Like Interactive TV Show

Egads, Crystal Reports

Monday, January 17th, 2005

Anyone out there know how to create a hierarchical grid report with n columns and n levels of hierarchy?
I’m sure I’m not the first one to ever try and do this, but as I’ve often found, when I try to look for an example of this, I can’t find anything. Maybe there are some Crystal […]

Busy Busy Busy

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you’re running 100 mph and you’re not getting anywhere?
Neither have I. But its dang busy today.

Spam Karma

Monday, January 10th, 2005

In an ongoing effort to thwart the rising influx of comment spam, I have installed Spam Karma. Hopefully this plugin makes my need to moderate less. The built-in comment spam tools in Wordpress are lacking. I had to basically delete it myself. But this Spam Karma looks to be more promising.
I’ll let you know.

Server Troubles

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

Well as some of you may have noticed. Some of my sites were/are down. My server was compromised by a phpBB exploit. I’ve temporarily killed all the sites that were using phpBB and I’m looking into upgrading them to “plug the hole”. Let me tell you though, that was frantic 2 hours yesterday when I […]

What kind of nerd are you?

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Back to work

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Whew… boy is it tiring coming back to work after a week and a half off. I had approximately 970 emails to wade through. Of course about 960 of them were spam. Those went by fairly quick (about as fast as I could hit the delete button).
Then I had the bigger issues to take care […]