Poll Hawver's consumer confidence poll

Horray it's Monday. Time for some Spectrum porn. Pics under the cut.

( The Spectrum is a force, not a car )

rynsect posed five questions to me a few weeks ago, of which my first response turned into a full blown essay. I'll finish the rest sometime Real Soon Now ( Read more... )

On the drive into Boston yesterday, nessur was asking me why I use stored procedures to parametrize all my sql queries instead of just sending them over the wire to the db. Well, this is the answer ( Read more... )

( cut for lols )

In honor of May Day I thought it only appropriate that I order this shirt. Remember kids: struggle for teh bukkit iz politicle struggle


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Thought experiment:

Imagine that WalMart decided to take it's entire 2007 net profit and distribute it equally amongst it's 2,100,000 employees. How much money would you guess each employee would receive ? No cheating and looking at the balance sheet, I'm interested in your perception of WallMart's profits.

Poll Walmart

The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing ManI woke up, in a 'one stop' process requiring a subtle paradigm shift. I was in my bed at home, a complete integrated platform. The Sun™ was streaming through the Windows™. The world outside seemed people-ready. To drive decisions on getting out of bed, I enumerated multiple insightful, timely reasons for ( Read more... )

In today's wtf file, apparently wetheliving.com is now the website of some emo band. Although they did choose the name for the right reasons, so if they every show up in chicago I'll consider going to see them. Then I wont.

As the clock strikes one, I turn 30. Good god, the time goes by at such a every quickening pace. I'll report back from the future as to whether 30 really is the new 25.