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Entries from February 2008

Software: You’re Doing It Wrong

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s the interface for managing users in a version of postNuke that we are running on one of our websites:

40,000+ items in a dropdown box FTW! The HTML for this weighs in at around 2MB by itself. I hope this is fixed in a more recent version.

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Tags: horseshit · idiocy · programming

I’d Say It In Front of Her/Him

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s a colleague’s nice way of talking about someone behind their back:
I’d Say It In Front of Her/Him, but they really are not good at <insert task>.
I’m not sure if this is unnecessarily mean or smooth and soft-skills best practice. Maybe both. Part of managing is getting the right people doing the right tasks and [...]

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Tags: annoyance · horseshit · idiocy

Daily Bacon Update

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This Bacon & Egg pie sounds great!

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Tags: bacon · goodstuff

Baby Back Shrimp Recipe

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

(4:52:03 PM) kaitlen: incidentally, happy belated baby back shrimp day
(4:52:21 PM) kaitlen: we’ve still gotta come up with a recipe, man.
(4:52:30 PM) zack: haha goddamn
(4:52:33 PM) kaitlen: that sounds too tasty to abandon
(4:52:35 PM) zack: happy bbsd
(4:53:00 PM) zack: that sort of sounds like some weird fetish porn though
(4:53:09 PM) kaitlen: haha a bit, yeah
(4:54:35 [...]

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Tags: goodstuff

Reporting Services Epic Fail

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

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Tags: .net · annoyance · horseshit · idiocy · microsoft · programming · technology

Eye Know What You Did Last Summer

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

This ad creeps me the fuck out. Look at him! He has no fucking eyes! They didn’t take them out while he was still alive did they?! Some weirdo graphic designer must have gotten a kick out of this. Anyway Jerry, you are awesome but every time I see this ad on the subway I [...]

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Tags: horror · humor

The Count’s Song

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Guaranteed to ruin your childhood memories of Count von Count.

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Tags: goodstuff · humor

Google Reader Shortcuts

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original [...]

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Tags: annoyance · goodstuff · horseshit · javascript

Fogless Shaving Mirror Fixes

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Fogless shaving mirror got you down? It started fogging up again didn’t it? Bastard. A simple fix is to get a little bar soap on your hand and smear it on the mirror before each time you want to use it. Keeps the mirror fog free and you from buying any more “fogless” mirrors.

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Tags: annoyance · goodstuff

Cursing

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Although I thoroughly enjoy cursing, some people don’t. Here’s a list of five alternative phrases to use instead of dropping the F-bomb everywhere

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Tags: goodstuff