Monthly Archives: June 2008

71 Days Until Next Sunrise, 16,500 Prophylactics to the Rescue

From the “scientist are people too” department: One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year’s supply of condoms… [that] would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them. I …

June 10, 2008 – 9:58 am | By randy | Posted in Home, Randomness | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Apple's iPhone 3G Not So Cheap Afterall, AT&T Gets The Skins

Today saw the announcement of the new 3G iPhone from Apple. It looks very promissing and the price cut to $199 USD sounds like a really good price point to get more people to jump on the iPhone bandwagon. Afterall, this thing is twice as fast, but half the cost. What was not mentioned in …

June 9, 2008 – 6:49 pm | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Amazon is Down

It appears that Amazon is having some issues. Their site has been down for well over an hour now. I can’t imagine how much money this kind of downtime has on a company as large as Amazon. Maybe in the millions by now. This screen shot was grabbed at approximately 12:10PM PST on 06 June …

June 6, 2008 – 12:25 pm | By randy | Posted in Home, Randomness | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

MPAA Accuses University Laser Printer of Piracy, Printer Goes on Toner Binge

Is it really that surprising that M.P.A.A, R.I.A.A and others use flawed methods to determine who violates Copyright laws? These are some of the same companies that want to charge you more for a song purchased over a wireless network versus from a computer. Why? Just because. Assholes. The researchers rigged the software agents to …

June 5, 2008 – 4:39 pm | By randy | Posted in Home, Randomness | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

How-not-to: Normalize Your Data

Disclaimer: I am not a database architect nor a certified database programmer. I might not be database guru, but I have been working with SQL Server long enough to know what works and what doesn’t. I’m not a database programmer per say, but I’m expected to be one at work (even though I’m a code …

June 4, 2008 – 5:49 pm | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home, How-To | Tagged , | Comments (0)