Archive for July, 2008

<3ing the nets like tightrope walkers...

Monday, July 28th, 2008

1) I've got the juice to turn your monitor loose with Desktop Gaming. It isn't really as cool as the name implies, but the awesome-nes of using one of the desktop wallpapers found on this site earns you a nerdlife badge with your colleagues. This site is great not only because of ...

The Unignorable Harry Potter

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

For years I've ignored the insistent suggestions of friends, colleagues, associates, perimeter friends, strangers, and hobos to read the Harry Potter books. My reasons were much the same as anybody elses', suffice to say that I wasn't interested in reading the pop fiction that the populace glorifies as "Must Read" ...

C#

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

I've long been ignoring learning any type of Object Oriented Programming languages for general lack of use. I've programmed scripted languages, and I do a fair amount of SQL. However, I see lots of opportunity to utilize .NET programming in my employment and I am aching for some mental construction activity that ...

Blood Dough-Nation

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I donated blood today; it is a fairly regular thing here at work (haha). But don’t get it twisted: I’m not as compassionate about this as other people. It’s not like I am thinking “Oh! I am going to help people by giving my blood”. It’s more like “Hey, I ...