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Irregular expressions regularly

  • Joe versus the volcano

    After reading Mark's entry about Joe versus the Volcano I decided that I'd go out and hire it for a look.  Finding a video store which had it in stock wasn't that easy, even asking for it raised eyebrows - this is not surprising given that the film was released at about the same time that some of the staff who were serving me were born.

  • Random quotes

    "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
    - Orson Scott Card

  • A lazy Saturday afternoon...

    This week seemed to take forever and just felt like one of those really heavy weeks.  I think that it started when I opened my mouth and spoke up against the tide of "professional demonstrators" who follow each other around and see it as their job to heckle the IE product.  Then, I seemed to spend the remainder of the weekend reading every blogger take their turn to bag the crap out of a hundred or so people who have asked Microsoft not to end support of VB6 - makes you wonder really... I think that everybody must be getting restless while they wait for Beta 2 to arrive ;-)

  • Day 4: 3 subscriptions

    Three additions today, bringing my tally for the week up to 9 (including one which I made up).  This is well short of a budgetted quota of 5 per day which means that I'm falling behind already.  Anyhow... todays additions are:

  • Information Bridge

    Next week I'm giving a demo on IBF (Information Bridge Framework).  The IBF allows users to leverage some existing Office technologies - namely, the Research Task Pane and SmartTags - to perform interactions with line-of-business data.

  • Using sprocs or ad-hoc sql

    I use stored procedures "religiously" when developing data-centric applications and I'm always interested as to why people who use SqlServer would want to use ad-hoc sql; I think that the main reason is probably is the perception of "duplicating effort".