Archive for March, 2003

Following the Herd

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

OK, I guess it's time to do my bloggly duty. I'm speaking, of course, of asserting a position on the war in Iraq. Seems like it's de rigeur for anybody with any sort of a podium to spout off on the subject, and who am I to buck ...

why he writes

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

Why might I (want to) write? Here's one man's answer...

Sorting problem

Friday, March 7th, 2003

So I've got a problem with the application I'm working on now - I've got a recordset that I need to sort. It's got a number of fields, including one called userID. Unsurprisingly, userID represents a person (one who usually has a first and last name). The ...

Argh

Tuesday, March 4th, 2003

Frustration is an unpleasant (but as of late, all too common) emotion. Two things have conspired today to frustrate me: 1) I've been getting calls since Sunday about something that's totally out of my control. A server's IP was changed over the weekend and one email address from our ...

Rational Person

Monday, March 3rd, 2003

Hmm. Looks like one of the co-discoverers of the molecular structure of DNA is spouting off again. "If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," says Watson, now president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York. "The lower 10 per cent who really have difficulty, even ...