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moving
So this Saturday is the big move. Well, it is an intra-city move so I guess by definition it isn't really a big move. But we're moving into our first house and not another apartment, so that's big. And we've accumulated a lot of stuff in the two years we've been in our present apartment, so in terms of the actual number of boxes, pieces of ( Read more... ) -
converting VB timestamp to UNIX time
Needed to do a date compare between a VB datestamp on our web front-end and a timestamp from our UNIX-based pbx. Here's a handy little function to convert a date to UNIX format:Function convertToUNIXtime (strTime)
if IsDate(strTime) = False then
vTemp = "Error: provided value not a valid date"
else
vTemp = DateDiff("s", "12/31/1969 00:00:00", ( Read more... ) -
This is it!
So this Saturday I get to marry my best friend and most favorite person in all the world. Yeay! It's been a hectic couple of weeks (and life will continue at an absurdly rapid pace until the wee hours of Sunday morning), but I can't wait ( Read more... ) -
Sorry Charlie
Charlton Heston has died. He checked out at age 84 after a long illness. So it goes.
The news was all over the internet this morning, so I was already aware of his passing when I wandered over to my favorite movie site, CHUD.com, and saw a headline that made me do a spit-take with my morning coffee. Best. Headline. Ever.
SOYLENT GREEN IS CHARLTON -
Tool are Cool
We went to see Tool last night in Hamilton, Ontario (it lies somewhere betwixt Niagra Falls and Toronto ( Read more... ) -
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Buried a few paragraphs down in this post from James Gunn, the writer/director of Slither (and husband of The Office's Pam, Jenna Fischer) is a link to www.luciferthemovie.com ( Read more... ) -
There is no way that this is true, except that it is
Just when I thought Colonel Tigh being a Dylan-loving cylon was the strangest thing that could ever happen in the universe, along comes the morning news with a trump:
New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine was in critical condition Friday but expected to recover after his SUV crashed into a guard rail while heading to a meeting between Don Imus and the ( Read more... ) -
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Stuff, stuff and more stuff
Comics: I've been sick for the past couple days, which sucked mostly except I got to burn through some new comics collections. Actually, it was the all-Brian K. Vaughn show. RUNAWAYS VOLs 1 & 2 and Y: THE LAST MAN (volume whatever we're up to...eight, I think. Subtitled Kimono Dragons, which is both clever and awesome ( Read more... )