Archive for November, 2004

Your doom is mydoom. There’s a fun new IE specific virus out there, all you’ve gotta do is visit a URL to get it. Isn’t that nice. The links above lead to Symantec’s writeup, btw, not an evil page. Seeing that Firefox 1.0 was just released, wouldn’t today make a great day to upgrade to a Better Browser? Here’s a direct link to the Firefox installers, because their site is swamped. Upgrade today!

Yep, today’s the day. I’m waiting until after Nano because if I have that distraction, there’s no hope I’ll finish. I’m going to end up buying quite a few games after Nano. It seems like this month is the official month of must have games.

Help! I can’t escape the evils of passive voice! Woe is me! EDIT: 3133 Gasp, I’m still so far behind….

Must catch up! I started behind and I’m not catching up! Must catch up! Word count it 2800…only about 8000 to go to be caught up.

Well, I’ve finally started to get some writing done for Nanowrimo. I’m up to ~1800 words. Go me. I hope I can make up the time I lost for starting late over the weekend. I’m fairly pleased with how it is turning out so far. Nanowrimo really is a great idea.

It was a bug in SQL Server’s query optimizer. I brought a second co-worker to look over the queries and he was able to find a workaround. (a complex one that slows the query down, but IT WORKS) EDIT: When I say slow, I mean slow. The query ran in about 5 seconds before, and now it is up to over 20 minutes. THIS IS NOT MAKING ME A HAPPY PROGRAMMER!

Error converting data type varchar to numeric. YES I’M STILL FIGHTING THIS GODDAMN PROBLEM. I think I’m nearing my breaking point. I can feel the insanity. I’d like to have a chat with the SQL Server developer who wrote the code that produces this error message. Iit would only be a chat. No violence. REALLY.

The story is over But sometimes it’s under Which makes me just smile and wonder I float down the river Of freshly-made tea ‘Til the future is far behind me Here comes the boy with the butterfly eyes Who can sing like the birds in the bubble gum trees I hear him sing That the sun will not rain today Wide awake, wide awake sleeping Through the day when the moon is bright Dreams in a pie Eat up, it’s supper time Wide awake, wide awake sleeping Through a land when the day is night Dreams in a pie Eat up, it’s supper time I skip down the path That goes half the way nowhere To the other side of somewhere All the clocks tell me It’s quarter to never Or three minutes past forever

— Sen. John Kerry calls President Bush to concede presidential election, CNN has learned. Again, I hope that’s who you wanted. It wasn’t who I wanted, but I can’t have everything I want.

I really think Gandalf the cat was the best candidate, and he didn’t even place in my state. That is very depressing. My hate of both candidates aside, I hope whomever you wanted to win did. If not, at least it is only for four years. It won’t be long before there’s another chance. I hope there’s a candidate I can believe in at that time, but without some major changes I don’t see how it’s possible. I’m still hopeful that these next four years will be better than the previous. $deity bless America!