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Good Documentation…
Getting nationalized health care:
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Small Person, Big Life
My friends and a few work associates know some of the details of my last trip to China to adopt my second daughter. While there my first adopted daughter, then 4 years old, got mysteriously sick. Very very sick. My wife and I spent a lot of time and obscene amounts of money playing the Ugly American role and advocating for our child in a medical and political system not set up with any specific value placed on an individual life. I love the Chinese people (all of them) and the Chinese culture is a part of my life for the sake of my children but I’m still in 1969 when it comes to Communist governments…
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Link Like
As opposed to Link Love, that is...
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SQL Server Management Studio Double Vision
Took a second to realize what the heck was going on here. I think that this was due to a number of tries at installing VS 2008 and some MS BI tools and then uninstalling VS 05 and then putting it back. Everything still works but the UI looks like something out of 1992...
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Back in the Saddle
Back to the grind. Actually, I've been back to the grind for weeks but haven't been blogging due to time constraints. 2007 ended with a fender bender followed by my eldest daughter going to the hospital in East Podunk New Hampshire with 105 F fever and pneumonia. She's much better and the folks were nice enough if not exactly happy to be there on Christmas Day. Then 2008 started with my dog being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. She had to be euthenized immediately because a tumor had completely blocked her esphagus preventing her from ever eating again. That really sucked since my wife had never lost an animal before. Bad day. Then my youngest daughter went in for major surgery three days later. It was planned but she wasn't drinking enough on her own after surgery so she had to stay in the hospital for an extry day (3 total). Thank God it was at Johns Hopkins, agruably the best hospital in the world. A far cry from the places we spent nightmare days in China. Then I get my first speeding ticket in YEARS. Not exactly a slap on the face, more of a flick on the ear.
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Good Day to be a Programmer
So I'm looking at all the new stuff that was just released and the things that are going to be released soon. It's a good time to be a programmer in the Microsoft way as long as you are aligning yourself appropriately with the stars.
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What developers do when a VM goes awry
So my MOSS VM decided to spend an hour running a check disk and recovering bad sectors. This is a very unhappy time when you think of all the code you didn't check in yet... One of my daughters had requested a Dr. Seuss book for bedtime and I was in a verse-ish kind of place... so here is how I spent that hour or so:
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Blood Sweat and Tears... Almost
So this is an inappropriate venue for this but its been on my mind a lot since my trip to China to adopt my second daughter.