Alone In The Database

2008-12-30T12:44:00.002-05:00

Who is your real friend?This really works...! If you don't believe it, just try this experiment.Put your dog and your spouse in the trunk of the car for an hour.When you open the trunk, who is really happy to see you?(another great joke from my Aunt Lois, the Cajun Cracker Snowwoman)

2008-11-26T07:28:00.000-05:00

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

2008-10-30T10:49:00.001-04:00

Wealth Redistribution Explained for Kids

2008-07-01T15:27:00.002-04:00

Bush Hates White Rural Americans?I have family in Iowa so this email actually raised my eyebrows, even though I'm from New Orleans...Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Ask where the

2007-12-10T07:53:00.000-05:00

Thankful for Old People :)My son Carter had to color a turkey in school and fill in 5 things he is thankful for on the tail feathers... Food, The Beach, Earth, God, and Old People.His grandparents were very amused :)

2007-09-12T15:22:00.001-04:00

The Golden Years

2007-07-30T13:34:00.000-04:00

Your wife decides to go out with her friends drinking and dancing. You'reokay with it, because you get to watch sports and play on the internetall night. You hear her stumble into bed around four and laugh knowing she'sgoing to have a monster hangover. You wake up the next morning andgo outside to the family Volvo, which she used last night.... You sigh inrelief because it's all in one piece....

2007-06-12T07:51:00.000-04:00

Religion of Peace Demonstration.These pictures are of Muslims marching through the streets of London during their recent "Religion of Peace Demonstration."

A New Universal Sign for Gasoline

2007-05-14T12:55:00.001-04:00

A Touching Story of Temptation and Victory

2007-05-08T15:08:00.001-04:00

My girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me. It was her beautiful younger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight miniskirts, and generally was braless. She would regularly bend down and it was more than a pleasant view. She never did it when she was

Why Not to Tick Off an Engineer

2007-05-08T14:54:00.001-04:00

I would like to apologize

2007-05-07T08:47:00.001-04:00

Over the past few weeks I have received many funny images/jokes andhave emailed them to friends who I thought shared a similar sense of humor. Unfortunately, I seem to have upset a few people and received criticismfor being sexist and shallow. If you feel that way, I would like toapologize and demonstrate my willingness to change.From now on I will try to send only

Drinking with a Redneck Girl

2007-05-02T15:24:00.001-04:00

Drinking with a Redneck GirlA Mexican, an Iraqi, and a redneck girl are in the same bar. When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Mexico our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the Same one twice."The Iraqi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws into the air, pulls out his AK-

Farewell My Friend

2007-04-30T07:26:00.001-04:00

Farewell My Friend...We met in an Electronics Boutique in New Orleans many years ago.. He was some strange guy who liked to talk too much for my taste. Especially since he fit every definition of "stranger" that I'd ever had. I just wanted to look at the C64 games and go home. I "screened" him through a couple of local BBS's that I was active on at the time, and we got to

The Importance of Branching Models in SCM

2007-04-20T07:51:00.001-04:00

I just came across this link to a PDF about branching models in your development efforts. Honestly, I haven't read the whole thing yet but I plan to. Mostly I wanted to link it for my friend Brian who is heavily looking into this right now... :)

Daddy's Home!

2007-04-17T08:22:00.001-04:00

A cool joke from my friend David....Rrriiiiinnnnggg, rrriiiinnnngg, "Hello?" "Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?" "No, Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul." After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul." "Oh yes I do and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, Right now." Brief pause. "Uh,

PhillyNJ.NET First Meeting Tonight!

2007-03-29T13:26:00.001-04:00

PhillyNJ.NET Tonight!The well known Philly.NET usergroup is expanding into New Jersey! Bill has chosen me to head it up and we've got our first meeting scheduled for tonight!Naturally, I'll be doing the first speaking session, a beginner class titled "Developer Testing 101."This talk will include a general description of testing, and will cover testing levels, challenges, tools, and

2007-01-12T08:04:00.000-05:00

The Supermarket, The Old Lady In Front of You, and The NickelHow many times have you been in line at the supermarket , frustrated because some old woman ahead of you is arguing about a nickel on the bill? OMG it makes me angry. I can't help it. I try to think how sad it must be to need that nickel so badly. In fact, I've been there myself.But, my patience being what it is (or isn't) it still

2007-01-11T11:29:00.000-05:00

Sneaky Exception Tricks in VB.NETSo, I've been slowly going through the book Visual Basic 2005: The Language by Francesco Balena... I think he's a great speaker and writer, and this book certainly continues that opinion of him.Just in the third chapter on "The Basics" I got a great tip. I thought it was worth showing the tip in hopes it makes more people go buy his book. Notice my link is not

2006-11-28T08:15:00.000-05:00

Louisiana Comics

2006-10-24T09:06:00.000-04:00

So, I had an MDAC problem this morning, and of course I tried "Googling" it. I guess they won't sue me since I actually used GOOGLE to do the search. Anyway, the search criteria was:"The .Net Data OLE DB Provider(System.Data.OleDb) requires Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC)"And I got the following search result (notice #3 which is a crap destination):So, I tried a couple of Firefox

2006-10-23T10:00:00.000-04:00

Firefox Search Plugin - Some Amazing Stats (to me at least):First of course: 24,696 hits! OMG!Clipmarks is my 7th biggest referrer! Thanks fellow clipsters!By far, most visitors have IE? And the third largest chunk is from IE7! WTF?1 Internet Explorer 6.x::::::::::::::::::::46.04%2 Firefox:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::34.59%3 Internet Explorer 7.x::::::::::::::::::::9.68%Why

2006-10-13T10:52:00.000-04:00

I just discovered two enhancements to Tracing in ASP.NET 2.0. This is great news to me!See this fragment: Notice the two highlighted entries:mostRecent - OMG! In 1.x when your tracing output

2006-10-06T11:30:00.000-04:00

Google has recently unveiled a new search site centered on source code for developers. It's pretty fast, and I love the results. So of course I wanted to add a search plugin to my Firefox.Lo and behold, I couldn't find one! So, I learned how, and have created my first Firefox plugin. I'm sharing it hoping that others find it useful.Travis

2006-08-17T10:26:00.000-04:00

IDF Babes vs Hesbollah BabesFirst up, the IDF:Next, the Terrorists:Whew! Kind of makes you understand all of the suicide bombings eh?

2006-08-16T10:12:00.000-04:00

Tonight, I'm giving a talk at our local .NET user group - Philly.NET. Below are links to the topics discussed.Topic: Cool Sites, Software, and Add-Ins of Interest to .NET DevelopersThe first, most important tool that any developer, indeed anyone using the web, and certainly any web developer, is Firefox.Why is Firefox so essential? I'm not going to spout off about security, web standards, or

the tubes are full

2006-08-14T08:03:00.000-04:00

Just a Test of Getting Scrapbook Data Posted To Blogger

2006-08-11T07:40:00.000-04:00

First of all - this is a capture of an article from: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=482928&f1=rss&rl=1If it works, I guess it's like stealing their content. But that's not my intent. I'm just testing posting from my Scrapbook to Blogger. Please visit the original link to support the site that provided this article. File Management in .NETFile

2006-08-07T14:46:00.000-04:00

My kind of excercise:Monday:Beat around the bushJump to conclusionsClimb the wallsWade through the morning paper Tuesday:Drag my heelsPush my luckMake mountains out of mole hillsHit the nail on the head Wednesday:

When Good Trees Go Bad

2006-07-24T14:17:00.000-04:00

More funny pics from my Aunt Lois!Enjoy!

Dead Horse Strategies

2006-07-21T11:33:00.000-04:00

A DEAD HORSE------------Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:1. Buying a stronger whip.2. Changing riders.3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.5.

the ultimate hot dog griller

2006-07-10T11:00:00.000-04:00

Godless - Page 13 - Landolphi Sickness

2006-06-19T13:52:00.000-04:00

...too much to quote directly all of it here, but......In 1992, Chelmsford High School hired Suzi Landolphi to give a mandatory AIDS Awareness presentation. Among the things the kids HAD to watch and in some cases participate in:She said: "I can't believe how many people came here to listen to someone talk about sex, instead of staying home and having it yourself."She asked students to show

Godless - Page 5 - Kids vs Trees

2006-06-19T13:34:00.000-04:00

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn't the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation?

Godless - Page 2 - Art for the Sake of Liberalism

2006-06-19T09:09:00.000-04:00

This is a country in which taxpayers are forced to subsidize "artistic" exhibits of aborted fetuses, crucifixes in urine, and gay pornography. Meanwhile, it's unconstitutional to display a Nativity scene at Christmas or the Ten Commandments on government propery if the purpose is to promote monotheistic religion.

Godless - Page 2 - No One Is Responsible

2006-06-19T09:04:00.000-04:00

This is something else that can't be taught in government schools:Muslims' predilection for violence. On the first anniversary of the9/11 attack, the National Education Association's instruction materialsexhorted teachers, "Do not suggest that any group is responsible."

Godless - Page 2 - Gays, Child Molesters, and Darwinism

2006-06-19T08:59:00.000-04:00

As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact,People are born gay,Child molesters can be rehabilitated,Recycling is a virtue,Chastity is not.If people are born gay, why hasn't Darwinism weeded out people who don't reproduce? And if gays can't change, why do liberals think child molesters can? Pedophilia is a sexual preference. If they're born that way, instead of rehabilitation,

Thank God for this mouse function :)

2006-06-13T09:25:00.000-04:00

I have recently begun using multiple monitors, and one of the things that bothers me most is "where the heck is my pointer?" I move it around in frantic circles hoping my eyes find it so that I can move it to where I want it to be. Sometimes it's hidden in that microscopic area just between the two screens. Whatever.Enter this feature: I have no idea if this is a "standard" feature in Windows

This is a Win-Win-Win Situation

2006-06-01T10:59:00.000-04:00

1. Dig a moat along the length of the Mexican border. 2. Use the dirt to raise the levies in New Orleans 3. Put the Florida alligators into the moat. Any other problems you would like me to solve?* this was sent to my by my aunt, the original Cajun Cracker. God only knows where *she* got it :)

I need a good Feed Reader

2006-05-30T12:59:00.000-04:00

Ugh. Newsgator Online is down again today. Not totally down, but their POP access is down. That's DOWN for me :(So, I want a feed reader that stores my feeds locally on my machine. I have a few requirements:1) It has to work within Firefox. I'm all about integration, and if it's web content then I want it in my Firefox, so I can clip it, scrapbook it, clean it up, or do whatever else I want

The door on the house was red.

2006-05-24T09:59:00.000-04:00

So, I'm using Carter's new laptop to help him begin reading. I plan to develop some software for this, but for now I've just created a document in Wordpad and put some simple words in it, at the big 72pt font.We scroll through the document together and he memorizes what the words are.So, I do that again and again, until he gets them all right. I know that the sequence helps him to memorize the