this "spaghetti cat" thing was new to me. http://tinyurl.com/54uj7l

wow, fatwallet's forums are pretty impressive. (organic search hit)

google.com, created 15-sep-1997, expires 14-sep-2011. Everyone mark your calendars.

I registered stackoverflow.com for 10 years. If I were amazon.com I'd register my domain for 100 years.

aargh, having my monthly "Subversion's secret metadata files causing strange behavior" meltdown. Delete everything from disk, re-get all.

I'm penciling in my midlife crisis for next week.

the good news is that PowerShell is as powerful as Perl. The bad news is that PowerShell is as powerful as Perl.

sometimes I think I'd prefer the Children of Men future, but maybe that's coming from a very dark place.

I just unsubscribed from a bunch of random junk on my "catch-all" email acct and only ONE offered a truly single click unsubscribe. So lame.

I love that I get random birthday emails from companies based on the random dates I give them. I just turned umptyzillion years old again!

I don't think @rms is the real rms. At least, I hope not.

this video nearly killed me. a timeless gag. http://tinyurl.com/5xkspz

"what you have already lost, consider as totally lost." http://tinyurl.com/5gchms

ham-ster on a piano.. eating pop-corn.. on a pi-ano..

"There is not now, nor will there ever be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."

"Please do not write to me again." http://kk.org/ct2/heinlein.php

I give you a recursive thumbs up! http://tinyurl.com/6jpuwn

I now worship at the altar of the SQL Server Profiler. Amen, may all indexes be built unto you.

Jesus Fish vs. Darwin Critter: Fight! http://tinyurl.com/5j3dog

Tron 2, the movie http://tinyurl.com/5hs8qj

"newborns start at 1 year old." http://tinyurl.com/6ltsgz

I love that my twitter "replies" tab randomly has crazy responses from people who weren't talking to me at all. "I LIKE TURTLES!"

"Hello, ATL Server: A Modern C++ Web Platform" not, as previously thought, an oxymoron.

why can't I get this on my custom license plate? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacdafucup

1 day half price sale on VMWare fusion for Mac: http://tinyurl.com/65s7oy

the opposite of optimization: pessimization. http://tinyurl.com/5hvp2n

The word "cyber", in all its craptacular variations, has got to f**king go.

It's weird that the word "anal" is used so commonly without stigma, when it basically means.. well, pick your poison, but it's a rear end.

I think I will force people's question titles to have an upper case first letter. In Mortal Kombat terms, that's an "anality".

all roads lead to this: advertising is bullshit.

Autographed Infocom PDP-11 Zork Manual http://tinyurl.com/6amsur

there's a "Cheesequake State Park"? sounds delicious. http://is.gd/9Hbh

ImageShack has an automatic per-hour per-image bandwidth cap anyway. I guess it's about the backlinks?

ImageShack is getting very passive aggressive about hiding direct links to images. Why would I care about ImageShack's bandwidth?

wow, if you remove all words from the 5,000 most common English words, there's precious little left of most posts.

recursively answered "How do I earn the self-learner badge?" (see answer comments) http://is.gd/9G5f

One year later, still trying to escape from Facebook's media circus. http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/230980472

In case anyone was curious, SQL Server reallyreallyreallyREALLY doesn't like inserting large tables using INSERT INTO batches.

"I'm gonna take you up to Glendale, gonna take you for a real good meal." http://tinyurl.com/yuvw4x

I had almost forgotten how much fun it was to play the "guess which window or tab of Firefox is using an entire CPU core" game. Almost.

I need to know that each and every one of you has heard the Hamster on a Piano song. THIS IS IMPORTANT. http://tinyurl.com/3h8do4

the two banned arguments on the xkcd forums are "airplane on a treadmill" and "0.9999 = 1"

You know those agile standup meetings? Best. Standup. Ever. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SUcmpZ8hzKA

The Marvel Universe destroys your horizontal scroll bar http://tinyurl.com/65dv5b

does it make sense to parameterize parts of your SQL clauses that are (almost) always constants? I don't quite get that.

oops, that's +$2400/year for +4 gb RAM. I told you I was bad at the maths!

our host wants an additional $200/month for +4GB on the server. Somehow, $1200/year for +4GB seems like a bad deal to me.

for the record 24 GB of server memory is $119 * 6 or $714. And yes that is ECC.

@BPAndrew we're just doing the math on our dedicated server costs per month. Cheaper long (1 year+) term to buy the hardware. And 24 GB RAM!

thinking of buying some barebones Lenovo Thinkserver RD120s for stack overflow, w/ newegg purchased cpu/ram/hdds

hamster on a piano (eating popcorn) http://tinyurl.com/3h8do4

Famous Buskers! http://tinyurl.com/5eqduf

tilt-shift video from monster truck rally. awesome. http://tinyurl.com/6nyxl8

Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble to Invest In http://is.gd/Tlv

"Well, the DOW finished up again. Apparently all it wanted was a human sacrifice."

"Vista's Service Pack 2 will offer native BluRay support" (?)

wow, so Blu-Ray + HD-DVD + DVD burner is down to $95. Nice. http://tinyurl.com/5x2kvr

it's so *cute* that people think Windows 7 is going to ship in 2009! http://is.gd/9uCN

remembering the first digital camera, Logitech Fotoman. Resolution? 284 x 376. http://tinyurl.com/5mz9wh

"I just watched an old man rant for 20 minutes on the superiority of the 20-sided dice that he makes. And I liked it." http://is.gd/9gwR

Roger Ebert wants those kids off his lawn http://is.gd/9bxJ

Bush contemplates how he’d like to be remembered http://is.gd/9rVm

New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43441

excellent brief Left 4 Dead strategery guide. Read if you play. http://is.gd/9t8m

Atari 2600 Dr. Phil scene demo. Yes, it's insane, and it's running on an actual Atari 2600. http://is.gd/9t5S

via @waxpancake this is great stuff; 1980's hacker comix http://www.edpiskor.com/comics.html

ok the tweet before this one kicked in @wheeepony which is extra-EXTRA-hilarious

You get America's hottest new actress. http://is.gd/9lKa

@ninjakai you see, it's about a pony named Wildfire.. http://is.gd/9lzB

I tried to start something similar to rickroll with Wildfire back in 2001, but it never took off. Still bitter about that. http://is.gd/9lzB

Did Rick Astley just rickroll the thanksgiving day parade? http://tinyurl.com/57tulb

"I'm thankful that small children don't burst into flame when I say the number four."

Pepsi White, a "cola-yogurt" drink, was launched in Japan. http://tinyurl.com/5azro9

so the proper rah-rah "no rules" biz advice is this: "no rules! Well, except for rape. We have some rules there."

Ever notice how every fourth post on 37signals blog defends charging money for software? The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

every time I read some rah-rah biz advice about "no rules", I think about that that Office UK bit. "There's been a rape."

I think Paul Graham loves startups just a little bit too much.

A tale from the land of impossible bugs http://tinyurl.com/5zdh6x

why do the French use all upper case on last names, like.. Brigitte BARDOT ?

I did my part by upgrading our creaky old EDTV this season. Now get out there and make me proud, people. BUY! You know you want it!

Remember, people, this is buyin' season. Get out there and buy a lot of crap so the economy doesn't go further in the toilet. BUY! BUY! BUY!

wow, linkmasterjr@gmail.com would like to buy links on my website. Apparently link scams are the family business.

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

I can't emphasize enough how crappy small/cheap SSDs really are. They are basically USB thumb drives, and that's.. realllly slow (vs. HDD)

"Ten years later, Blizzard is still releasing patches for StarCraft."

"UML is great if you don't want to do any work; you just draw pictures of what it would look like if work was actually done."

"Panda attacks man who wanted a cuddle" making him a sad panda indeed. http://is.gd/962s

SQL 2008's "tell me which indexes will make this query go fast" feature is worth its weight in gold. And long, long overdue.

Shatner comments on the new Star Trek XI trailer http://tinyurl.com/5ut9yy

naked metroid? my pixels feel so.. violated http://badhacks.googlepages.com/nakedsamus

BitTorrent is TiVo for the tech-savvy and the ethically flexible http://www.slate.com/id/2204367/pagenum/all/

"He may be narcistic and arrogant, but it doesn't matter. He is 1 of the best guitarists alive! He doesn't care what all the losers think!"

ok so just for the record Malmsteen tracks are.. mildly.. challenging on expert guitar. Damn you Yngwie!!

does anyone know how to escape a bracket ([) character in a SQL2005/2008 CONTAINS() clause? It's totally eluding me, even after research..

btw 59 replies

showing guitarists with an actual guitar strap is apparently one of the greatest unsolved programming problems in fake plastic rock games.

when the answer to your problem is "just install more software!", that's not a solution -- it's a new problem.

we are sexy, sexy Von Neumann machines http://xkcd.com/387/

"Saint's Row 2 is GTAIV with Carmageddon sensibilities"

can't.. stop.. using.. regular.. expressions. They are my swiss army knife.