Ever since saying goodbye to paid tv, we’ve been relying on something other than the cable box to see stuff on the big screen. Two appliances emerged as replacements: Apple TV and Microsoft Xbox 360.
Amazon just announced a whole boatload of new Kindles and the lineup is quite impressive. There’s the really small Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire (Android tablet), Kindle Ring (a phone), Kindle Tube (a tv), and of course Kindle Grill (a toaster) *. Yet of all the things they mentioned, the one that really stood out to me was the new Silk browser.
In a recent poll about most hated jobs, Director of Information Technology topped the list. That’s right, IT Directors hate their jobs more than anyone else. More than garbage collectors, executioners, telemarketers, investment bankers, S&P employees, elected politicians, unelected politicians, network executives, and network executive assistants.
I recently completed another painting and thought it would be fun to share how it evolved.
A while back I blogged about strategies for putting your database artifacts under source control. At the time, I thought that a schema synchronization approach (implemented by Visual Studio Database project) was the way to go. Among other things, it seemed more DBA friendly.
Here are some more sketches from my old sketchbook. This set is primarily surrealistic (or, as some might say, creepy). For some odd reason, there seems to be a surprisingly large number of meat related sketches. Enjoy!
There’s been a lot of talk lately about eliminating the mortgage deduction. Reactions to this idea range from “this will end us all” to “eh” and people tend to use all kinds of underhanded tactics (i.e. statistics) to prove their point.
Writing on a computer is an inherently distracting experience. Words you type have to constantly compete for your eye share against all kinds of menus, toolbars, windows, popups, tray icons, and so on. With so much going on, it’s often difficult to write more than five words before launching into a major reformatting expedition.
I really like to paint. I started back in college, on a whim. One fine day, I bought some oil paints, brushes, and a canvas, and started painting.
Bug fixing is rarely fun. This is especially true for bugs you didn’t create.
What a crazy week it was on the stock exchanges. Huge swings up and down, see-sawing back and forth, massive losses followed by massive gains, unbridled despair followed by unbridled joy, and so on and so forth.