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Dave tagged me , so here goes: I practised karate for nearly twenty years, achieving a fifth degree black belt by the time I was 18. At one point my brother and I ran three classes a week, with the most students of any school outside of the capital cities. I never earned a degree from uni, dropping out...
For those of you running Community Server who have access to the back-end database and would like to generate some stats like those I posted yesterday, here's "one query to rule them all": select top 20 p.PostID, p.Subject, p.TotalViews, count(c.PostID) from cs_posts p with (nolock) left join...
Major Nelson recently posted some statistics from his blog from over the past year. My numbers are nowhere near as impressive, but here are some figures from Mabsterama 2006: Number of posts: 224 (that's 4.3 posts per week, which isn't too bad for me) Number of comments: 596 (2.66 comments per...
Marko Djurdjevic is the cover artist for Marvel's Thunderbolts series, when Warren Ellis takes over as writer. I was impressed with some of the art and character designs of his that I've seen previewed on the web, so I started searching around for some of his other work. In doing so, I found...
The new year will be here in less than five hours. Sal and I were thinking back on 2006 earlier, and realised what a great year it has been. I've completed a major project at work - one that has been on my year-end "goals for next year" list almost every year in the 12 years I've worked there. Not only...
Christmas is all about family, and coming together with-- ah, screw it! Let's talk about presents!!! First, from Sal: Three shirts Four t-shirts A pair of shorts A bottle of Armani Code The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett Pyramids by Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards...
In case you haven't already seen it: you can check out a picture of the Silver Surfer from the upcoming sequel to "Fantastic Four" here . I haven't yet seen the original FF movie - it just didn't look anything like the way I imagined the FF should look on-screen, so I avoided it. I really hope they get...
Feature requests are a bit like onions. They make you cry, and they have layers. Dig a little deeper than the surface of an ordinary-looking feature request, and you can often find a whole set of business practices that you didn't know about. Case in point: We have a farm who has started receiving pregnant...
Those of you out there who, like us, aren't in the habit of lighting cigars with $100 bills and therefore can't afford Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System , have probably looked at FogBugz from Joel Spolsky's Fog Creek Software. It's a great little HTML-based bug and feature-request...
Back again from the monthly gathering of the Albury/Wodonga Dot Net User Group (I'm spelling it out in a bid to give the site a bit more Google weight). This month Anthony and Kaarel gave us a rundown on the new Office 2007 XML file formats, and much discussion was had over the vagrancies of backwards...