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Writing for Engadget

I saw a posting on Engadget today, they’re looking for writers, or a writer, not sure. In any case I sent the link to Tom, who wasn’t interested, "Not my type of writing." I wasn’t sure I was interested either. i love reading engadget, even when it’s about something I couldn’t care less about, the [...]

For XML Explicit gotchas

Free asked me something today which gave me the idea it put my answer in writing so I don’t forget it. He was working on one of my procs and it was returning an error, that tag ID 2 was not open for use and had to be opened first. I saw that enough to [...]

SQL and XML FOR EXPLICIT. oh, my head!

The last few days I’ve been working on some crazy SQL. The project will be storing an xml representation of data (let’s just say it’s a resume), in one of it’s columns. The data spans a bunch of tables with lookups and such. Version 1 of the script ended up being 2251 lines long and [...]

What if…. Google was evil?

I was sitting at my desk, checking my Gmail (do we even call it Email any more?). I noticed that the program I use to store data in Gmail, Gdisk actually makes a message and stores it as a draft. It’s rumored Google is preparing to offer their own Gdisk product. On top of that [...]

Just thought this was too funny.

The Land of the Giants

And no i don’t mean the campy 70′s era show. I mean In the Company of Giants. I’ve been curious recently, who are today’s giants? The book was written almost ten years ago. That’s a long time in technology. Some of those giants are still around and still giants; Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell. [...]