Archive for June, 2003
Monday, June 30th, 2003
Weekend Wrapup
Oh, man am I tired today. I was basically on the go since last Thursday night, and this weekend was an exceptionally busy one. Went to Byram first Friday night right after work, and had a beer with my high-school buddy Jen. We were at a local bar that’s right in the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Climbing, Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Thursday, June 26th, 2003
West Virginia, cultural wasteland?
I’m enjoying going through the Photoshop contest entries on Fark to “design the WV state quarter”. Then I went and had a look at the source images they were using. It strikes me as sort of odd that 3 of the 5 final possible designs are of the New River Gorge Bridge/Bridge Day. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by mattcomroe
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
Variable Scope
Let’s talk for a minute about scoping of variables. Let’s say that you have, oh I don’t know, a fairly complex billing web app. An administrator logs in, selects a customer, bills time for that customer, and goes on his/her merry way. No problem, right?
Well, let’s say (strictly for the sake of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in .Nizzle by mattcomroe
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
Mozilla’s Thunderbird
I started using Thunderbird at work yesterday. I’m trying to move away from using IE as much as possible, since IE6 is the new IE5 (which, coincidentally, is the new Netscape 4). I know that the project isn’t all that far along, all things considered, but I was still very impressed by how [...]
Comments Off - Posted in General Tech, Web Standards by mattcomroe
Tuesday, June 24th, 2003
A look at Jitneys on Plastic
Nice writeup on Plastic, with a link to a good article about the Pittsburgh phenomenon of unlicensed cabs, the jitenys. I think that one of the major contributing causes of PGH’s “youth flight” is the lack of straight bars open downtown, and the fact that you can’t get anywhere easily without a car (The [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Tuesday, June 24th, 2003
Crisis Averted
I have a confession to make. While I’m normally a fairly well-adjusted person, I have at least one significant quirk (that I know of). If I can’t find something, it drives me absolutely bonkers until I do. I don’t know if this qualifies as OCD or not, but it’s definitely a problem. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Monday, June 23rd, 2003
Movie Review: 28 Days Later (With Spoilers)
After seeing the ads on tv, I found a download for a DVD-rip of 28 Days Later. It was released in England last year, so it was already out on DVD (Remember when it used to take years for a movie to go from the theatre to VHS/DVD? Now it’s on PPV [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Thursday, June 19th, 2003
The RIAA can eat my ass.
Came home from work today to find this message window popped up in KaZaA Lite:
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WARNING:
It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer. Distributing or downloading copyrighted music on the Internet without permission from the copyright owner is ILLEGAL. It hurts songwriters who create and musicians who perform [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General Tech by mattcomroe
Thursday, June 19th, 2003
Holy crap, that’s annoying!
So, apparently all the “GO” statements that SQL Enterprise manager spits out when you create an export of tables/stored procedures/etc. aren’t understood by SQL Server! I’ve been sitting here banging my head against a wall for a day now, trying to figure out why my installer program isn’t working, and is spitting back errors [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General Tech by mattcomroe
Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
I *Heart* my SUV
Somebody finally put their Hummer to good use.
