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dhunay.blog
Friday, October 31, 2003
Weather Reports Now PatentedAfter a seven year wait, Microsoft was granted a patent earlier this month for the "Customization of network documents by accessing customization information on a server computer using unique user identifiers". This is patent lawyer-speak for using preferences stored on a server for such purposes as "displaying stock quotes for the companies in which the user is interested, and displaying the user's local weather report".# posted by Nav : 6:57 PM
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
DDSToday I experienced my first case of DDS (Disappearing Devices Syndrome). When I realized that my iPaq had disappeared, I felt a drop in my blood pressure and a sudden panic attack. Luckily my wife managed to find it and keep me from falling in to coma.
# posted by Nav : 7:13 PM
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Wet...againDon't you hate it when you've finished using the urinal, you flush it and the water is coming down so fast that it hits the bottom of the urinal and splashes out onto your pants? And you're wearing Khakis.
Your left standing there wondering if you should take off your pants, dry them before you leave the washroom, risk having the CIO walk in and see you standing there in your Fruit-O-Looms, or run back to your desk as quickly as possible, sit down and hope nobody calls you to a meeting.
Let's just say that I'll be declining any meeting invites I receive this afternoon.
# posted by Nav : 2:31 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Do you squeal?I'm surprised by the number of people that continually mispronounce both SQL Server and SQL. I have heard some hideous pronunciations. I even heard one guy call it "squeal".
To set the record straight, here's how it's pronounced:
SQL Server - "sequel server"
SQL - pronounced as "s - q - l" (which is more spelt, rather than pronounced)
SQL Server is an enterprise level database management system developed and marketed by Microsoft.
SQL is an acronym for Structured Query Langauge. SQL is a standard interactive and programming language for getting information from and updating a database.
Now excuse me while I get off my soapbox.# posted by Nav : 7:28 PM
Monday, October 20, 2003
Appetite LossWe are in the throes of a crack epidemic. Sitting in a booth with a colleague at a popular restaurant a few days ago, I glanced up to see a fleshy forest of crevices and multiple folds of skin and G-strings that three women in their late 20s were displaying for the world. It was then that I knew: This low-rider style has gone too far. The trend isn't new—it began around '95 or so—but what is new are the unlovely depths to which the pants have now, as it were, sunk.
Of course the guy in me wants to applaud the flaunting. But the real problem is that not all women are built to wear these low-riders. Yet most women who do, think they are. The result? Strange, fleshy bulges that make you lose your appetite.# posted by Nav : 7:54 PM
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Ctrl-Alt-DelThe Gannett News is running a story about David Bradley, the IBM engineer who, in 1980, coined Ctrl-Alt-Del. Interestingly, he meant for it to remain a developer-only tool, not something for end users, and certainly not to have Windows users change their passwords or logoff. He also says he chose those keys specifically as it's not a key sequence that can be struck by accident.
It's not the first time man has used something for purposes other than it's original intent - see hydrogen splitting# posted by Nav : 8:27 AM
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