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Tribute to bad design

This is frightening. We complain about some of the systems where I work, but none of them are THIS bad.

Training

I found out this morning that I’m going to a couple of Microsoft training classes for my DBA certification. By September, I should have my first round of classes done.

Testing…

It looks like my image upload is working again. Thank you, Paul! Ever since I upgraded ExpressionEngine to the latest version, I’d been unable to upload pictures. It looks like it’s working again. By the way, that’s Buddy, not Reggie in the picture.

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Speedy Delivery

We run a product at work called Business Objects Crystal Reports Server. It basically automates the delivery, distribution, execution, and viewing of reports that have been designed with Crystal Reports. I’ve been less than satisfied with the performance of the application for a while but knew that the problem had to be our installation because… Continue reading Speedy Delivery

X41

I’m writing this from my new laptop. The keyboard is smaller, and that’s going to take some getting used to. The other thing is that it has no external media drive, such as a CD-ROM, DVD, or the like. There is a USB drive I can use if necessary, but it’s at work. This thing… Continue reading X41

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New Computer

I’m getting a new laptop at work. My new computer is an IBM X41, which is their small footprint notebook. Over the next few months, I’m going to be a professional meeting attender, and having something light to lug around the office will be really nice. Don’t get me wrong, I love my T43 because… Continue reading New Computer

Mike Likes Planes

I just registered a new domain… mikelikesplanes.com. It’ll take a few days to get it up and running.

Carmine would be proud

The guy who wrote our system at Equitable is brilliant. He did stuff with the column naming conventions that was nothing short of genius. No two columns in the database had the same name. I’ll have to write about that stretegy some day. Anyway, I wrote some code last night/today that is kind of cool.… Continue reading Carmine would be proud

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Power Outage

This weekend has been decent.  I’ll write more later. The power cable on my iBook has been going south for a while, but i’ve been too cheap to replace it. If I suddenly go offline for a few days, you’ll know why. It’s on its last legs.. The replacements are $85 from Apple and the… Continue reading Power Outage

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