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Happy St. Andrew’s Day
There’s nane that’s blest of human kind,
But the cheerful and the gay, man,
Fal, la, la, &c.
Here’s a bottle and an honest friend!
What wad ye wish for mair, man?
Wha kens, before his life may end,
What his share may be o’ care, man?
Then catch the moments as they fly,
And use them as ye ought, […]

My CL350 wrenching buddy (and coworker) Erik Vedvik and his wife Taara welcomed their brand new baby boy into the world on November 26th at 10:23pm.

Tale of the Tape:

Weight: 8 pounds, 2 ounces
Length: 21 inches
Name: Ian Andrew TBD (This isn’t really a surprise to us.)

Mother and child (and Papa) are doing well according to […]

Chuck Norris.
I’m sure many of you figured he had faded into a halcyon semi-retirement of Total Gym hucksterism, anti-drug campaigning, and… um… praying after the demise of his Walker, Texas Ranger series. I’m doubly sure you all had figured Chuck had strayed far, far away from his Lone Wolf McQuade martial arts badassedness of yore.
Well, […]

So we’re almost one third of the way into the first season of the “new” NHL and we have players with as many as 21 goals, 31 assists (Go Foppa! We miss you.), and 39 points.
That could work out to season numbers in the neighborhood of 70 goals, 100 assists, and 130 points. Those aren’t […]

Good news for inmates who aren’t already tattooed
“The program has advantages in that we can take a practice that already occurs, and make it safer,” said Holly Knowles, a spokeswoman for Correctional Services Canada. “We’re trying to reduce the amount of make-shift needles.”
Isn’t that nice? Now the boys in the joint can get their prison […]

Need a fresh cuppa Joe? Think about ordering some Mirembe Kawomera Ugandan coffee next time you stock up.
Mirembe Kawomera (mir´em bay cow o mare´a) means “delicious peace” in the Ugandan language Luganda. It is the name of a Ugandan cooperative of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian coffee farmers.
The farmers of the Mirembe Kawomera Cooperative are a […]

Forget Botox, I Prefer My Tattoo
In the weeks since, I’ve thought about how it is that scars make us human. Far from thinking it a mistake, I am so proud of my new tattoo that I have been walking around sockless, even in the pouring rain and the freezing cold. I pull up my foot […]

So get this: That problem I had with ColdFusion 5 and Oracle9? Well, at this point the work around may be what we call a “gateway” solution.
That means we have CF5 post search parameters via HTTP (using the CFHTTP tag) to a ColdFusion MX 7 server, which actually does the search on the Oracle database […]