The south is an interesting, backwards, delightful, and eccentric place. I had occasion to ponder such things, chopping into my fish sandwich at my local McDonalds. For sometime now McDonalds all around the south have been going though a renaissance or a sophistication transformation of sorts. Many now seem to be trading in their older, [...]
I’m obviously shamelessly stealing the title from one of my favorite software related articles, The Iceberg Secret, Revealed¬ù by Joel Spolsky. In a nutshell, Joel explains how important a good UI is, how non-programmers view them, and ultimately he hands out some advice on how to deal with that.
In this article, I wanted to let [...]
As some of you may have noticed, my site was down for 3-4 days. The reason, was that, the server I was hosting on at Virtuoso Net Solutions was hacked. What’s more is that the company cliams all the backups were compromised as well. Now I don’t know about you, but I think you should [...]
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this (I hope you have or this will make no sense whatsoever), but recently I have been picking up on some patterns when it comes to older peoples speech. While listening to an older member of my extended family, it dawned on me, older people tend to [...]
Just a quick note to say, I was approved to write an article for 4GuysFromRolla. I used that website a lot for reference material and tutorials when I first was learning ASP .Net. The article is basically an easy introduction into AJAX using Microsoft’s Atlas framework and ASP .Net 2.0. Hopefully after the review process [...]
Got a speeding ticket this last weekend. Came out to $107 dollars ($10 off since I was wearing a seat belt). Word to the wise, watch your speed when on Hwy. 65.
On a totally different note, I found this long lost photo taken by mister Luke Williams, while on a company retreat:
I would like to share a talk I had with one of my close friends on our unhappiness with our careers or at least for me the last several jobs I have had. The conversation had to do with the parallels between construction work and computer science.
The jist of it is thus:
Programmers = Construction Workers: [...]
I’ve had something stuck in my right eye (left if you are looking at me) for the past day and a half…I will go to the eye doctor today and see if he can fish it out. IT HURTS!!!
UPDATE: Went to the eye doctor at UAMS and they think whatever was in there, is not [...]
While daydreaming during a classical music recital, I wondered why is it that pop music is…well so popular, while classical music seems to not be as much. It dawned on me, probably 90% of the reason is because that is what the advertising and marketing giants decided to…well market. Of course it helps that kids [...]
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