The Lost Tomb of Jesus

The wife and I watched an interesting docudrama on the discovery of what could be the the Tomb of the Jesus family. They put together a rather compelling story and leave it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions. I'm really not sure what I think yet. What is interesting is all the people that are outraged over this because of the "religious implications." What are they? God gives his son to the world as a mortal and he dies, shouldn't his remains exist? I must be missing something.

My Tree

My Tree
Originally uploaded by Drizzt51.

A few years back the Big Flats community park decided to expand. The expansion required cutting down a huge wooded an area, an area where I used to play as a kid. I had this great spot where I would run off to read in the summer, this beautiful old tree. When I heard that they were going to cutting down all the trees to make the park bigger I really felt loss. I really couldn't believe that this tree would be stripped from the earth. We are talking about a tree that has in all likelihood seen generations of kids to adulthood.

I was away at college when the expansion was taking place. I knew this would be one of a hundred things that would be changed when I got home. I had been feeling the pains of change every weekend I was able to sneak home. More stores, less nature. The tree was just a part of this 'modernization.'

When I came home I went to the new park and to my surprise (and what a great surprise) the tree was still there.

I haven't decided what this really means. Was it impossible for those cutting away the Forrest to fell this tree. Did the tree strike them in someway? Perhaps they just thought it looked neat. Is it a symbol of my childhood or a symbol of my inability to grow up?

Roger

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Originally uploaded by Drizzt51.

This is my Bernie, Roger, in the snow being completely happy. When I come home from work tonight he will be totally excited and so will I. He teaches me to find enjoyment in all moments and he knocks over my trash can.

I cant imagine life without dogs.

Windows Hosed my Computer (svchost.exe application error)

Stupid automatic update was killing my network connectivity. Grrrrr. The following solution bailed me out

clipped from swigartconsulting.blogs.com

1.Go 2 the start menu
2.Right click "my computer"
3.Click "properties" then the "automatic updates"
tab
4.Choose "turn off automatic updates"
5.Reboot your computer
6.Go back to start menu and in all programs go to "windows update" you have to be connected to the internet.
7.Manually update windows.
8.Turn your automatic updates back on.

Can you cut the mustard

This was a totally interesting article by Jeff Atwood. I mean this is a very trivial exercise yet many programmers can't do it. I have met quite a few.

In interviews I have often been asked the standard questions like explain a left join. The problem with these is that people memorize the answer with no understanding of the concept. The real question would be can you write some SQL that will join table A to table B while making sure to pull back all the rows of table A and inserting blanks if table B has no data. Or something like that

clipped from www.codinghorror.com

Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

After a fair bit of trial and error I've discovered that people who struggle to code don't just struggle on big problems, or even smallish problems (i.e. write a implementation of a linked list). They struggle with tiny problems.

So I set out to develop questions that can identify this kind of developer and came up with a class of questions I call "FizzBuzz Questions" named after a game children often play (or are made to play) in schools in the UK. An example of a Fizz-Buzz question is the following:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

Most good programmers should be able to write out on paper a program which does this in a under a couple of minutes. Want to know something scary?

First Post

I feel like I should have something really compelling or interesting to say. I don't. I guess my plan here is to jot things down. So if you read it cool ... if not thats cool to.