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Retro – It’s all about the donuts

Kids are amazing little buggers, especially when they are your amazing little buggers. One of the most amazing things about having kids is that you can actually learn from them. Yeah, imagine that. Something I have learned from our boys is that it really is the little things in life that make it all worth [...]

Concatenation and logic in SQL calls

I’ve been doing alot of database design lately, although nothing too fancy, just some personal Access databases. However, I have run across some cool stuff that really got me excited (as pathetic as that may seem): concatenating fields and using logic in SQL calls. The only thing that aggravates me is that I’ve went this [...]

Conditional SQL

Conditional SQL?? How have I went this long with out knowing about this? The power of SQL amazes me every day.

Retro – Jack, there’s no speed limit in Montana!

The Wife and I were in Mexico on our honeymoon last year. One evening, we were at the resort bar, sitting outside on the patio, and this older (60′s) American (and judging from what they talked about the entire time, obviously very wealthy) husband and wife were sitting behind me. Part of their conversation went [...]

Google Maps

Goodbye Mapquest, hello Google Maps.

I’m in love

Her name is mod_rewrite. Ever heard of her? She’s an Apache module, and man is she gorgeous. We first met last year. At first she really confused me and sent me mixed signals. On one minute, off the next; you know, like code or something. Always leaving me wondering “Is this really going to work?” [...]

Panoramas

Three of these are from recent photos, one is from older ones. This series of photos was taken in April of 2002 from the balcony of the beach house where my sister got married on Pensacola Beach, FL. The view is looking west out onto the Sound. Taken April 23, 2004. This series was taken [...]