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Archive for March, 2008

Blackened Berry Shortcakes

BlackBerry Curve 8320
Probably out of the running is this little guy. My understanding is that the way email is handled is fantastic and everything else is severely lacking, most especially the web browser. As I prefer to read email when I’m ready with consideration to the vast volume of it that I receive.

March 29th, 2008

Maker and Sprint Meet For the First Time

While experimenting with a Palm Centro phone tonight, I discovered a couple things:

Sprint’s EVDO is about what we’ll call, “trillions” of times faster than T-Mobile’s 0.001kpbs Make-Believe GPRS. When you have good reception. Which is to say never. Did I mention I work across the freeway from a T-Mobile corporate headquarters? They probably all [...]

March 29th, 2008

New Mobile Phone Project

I will be selecting a mobile phone product and carrier for personal needs as my company decided to switch to T-Mobile. The T-Mobile “service” I get is completely unacceptable, especially considering I live and work in a pretty densely populated area and can see one of their corporate buildings from my own office.
Now begins the [...]

March 28th, 2008

Pointers

Sometimes I like to stand on my balcony and point at cars as they come around the corner and slow down for the stop sign. I want to be known as the El Camino Real Pointer.

March 28th, 2008

Warning: SQL Statement is Missing SQL

I found some great code at work today I’d like to share. I’ve omitted anything that might qualify as a trade secret or proprietary information. I’ve also changed the names of the innocent variables to make it more readable. Also, this won’t be funny if code makes your brain hurt.
Here’s the error I kept finding:
Warning: [...]

March 26th, 2008

A Mountain of Slush

I went to Mountain High this weekend. Their snow report page says:
“Snowmaking took place last night and added a fresh layer of snow to some of your favorite runs so head up to Mountain High for excellent coverage and beautiful weather. Both East and West Resorts will be open today with nearly every lift and [...]

March 9th, 2008

In which a system administrator is an idiot

I recently did some freelance work for a friend of mine. It was extremely basic, just adding some includes so he didn’t have to manage a hundred different navigations for each page he had made. Well, I did it fast and I skipped some basic checking in my script. My code would work unless you [...]

March 9th, 2008