piping hot from the microwave, directly into the freezer for cooldown -- Dude Cookin' at its finest!

I miss Ephedra in the mornings. Screw you Steve Bechler. http://tinyurl.com/6jpj94

the fax is a frigging pox on the digital age. "signed forms" my ass. http://is.gd/T1J

one of the hardest words to translate, "ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other" http://is.gd/SVF

Intellivision space games: once you compare -- you'll know. http://tinyurl.com/6mgnfw

Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point http://is.gd/SFf

The 50 greatest comic book characters http://www.empireonline.com/50greatestcomiccharacters/

That girl who cried at the Wall-E trailer? She's a pu**y. I'm sorry, it has to be said. Enough already. Boo hoo, animated robots. Wah. LAME

"Efficiently handling tags is similar to attributes in dating sites (ie. +blonde +tits -fat)" OK, I LOLed at that one.

of course that article is updated with: "new conclusion: RDBMS systems don’t scale to systems that have more than 1 million items" scary!

in a good way, there's been resistance to denormalizing. Also, have you seen http://is.gd/Sz9 that is EXACTLY what we're struggling with

the bummer part is my local 3.5 GHz 2-core PC does that query 2x as fast as the 1.8 GHz 8-core server. Clock speed still matters, people.

ok, dbo.RegexIsMatch(r.Tags, '(test|orange)') now works via CLR, but perf is only so-so. 460ms to test 14,000 records.

@mdesjardins PATINDEX is the same as LIKE: % (any), _ (one), chargroups only. No $, ^, |, grouping etc etc

argh, the *only* way to do a regex SQL match in SQL 2005 is through CLR integration? Bummer: http://is.gd/Sw3

And no, SQL "LIKE" is not good enough for what I need to do.

SQL Server 2005 gurus: does anyone have code/example of using regex in a SQL query? This is much easier in MySQL :(

ah the dancing kittens. This is what YouTube was invented for, dawg. http://tinyurl.com/682wze

some nice posters. If only machine guns would shoot BUTTERFLIES, damn it man! http://www.theposterlist.com/

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja; so much awesome you'll need a refund because your monitor is only 2D. http://www.drmcninja.com/

Rock Out With Your Ock Out. Ockham's razor, of course.. http://avdi.org/images/rockoutockout.jpg

until Safari/Opera/IE start to emulate (or ideally, are-compatible-with) Firefox's extensions model, the browser wars are effectively over.

aack! the dreaded sneeze-stifled-by-yawn. I'm certain that just shortened my life by a few minutes. Ouch.

and no IE7Pro doesn't count. That damn thing is buggier than Firefox 3, and believe me, that's saying a lot.

FF3 crashed as I typed stuff into the address bar again. I'd switch back to IE7 in a heartbeat for stability if it had GOOD flash/adblock.

this is what a ghetto lyrics sites are: they have the damn BLINK tag on them. I wish I was joking. http://is.gd/S92

@arsenault I got nothin' but love for my Mac homeys. I just like to poke and prod a little. But with affection!

I had forgotten about this; the one good scene in the otherwise execrable Pick of Destiny http://tinyurl.com/yqbp5e

@drylight yes, choosing a Mac means you're unique, just like everyone else :) http://is.gd/S3c

@drylight "most don't care" So what? My goal is not to be "like most". Is yours?

It is hard not to fall in love with extension methods. Monkeypatching FTW! http://is.gd/S0P

expert drums on Everlong look/sound amazing. "the only thing I'll ever ask of you -- you've got to promise not to stop when I say when"

Rock Band 2. I feel like Eric Cartman waiting for the Wii. "C'mon. C'mon! For the love of God, how much longer?!" http://is.gd/S0v

END TIMES NIGH

"IndyMac marks the largest collapse of an FDIC-insured institution since 1984." http://is.gd/S0f

"Here, have this awkward goodnight kiss that's as empty as my soul. Good night!" http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/471580402.html

Q: What do rocket scientists say when they want to describe a portion of their work as easy? A: "This bit isn't exactly brain surgery."

Regions as #herebedragons http://tinyurl.com/6qfg7c

A day where I have to write PHP code: not quite as bad as a day where I have to write Perl code. But on the whole, still not good.

well, the lesson is to use things on their native platforms, to "follow the herd" and go where the popularity and FAQs already exist.

The worst eBay feedback ever: http://xkcd.com/325/

the ishuman() WP plugin mostly works, but if you fail the math test, you get 500 error back. php errlog empty, iis7 failed req trace useless

sorry for all the tweets on WP pain. It's just utter insanity how few of the plugins work properly on IIS/Windows.

EPIC LOLZ @ the "Blog owner has died, notify kin." WordPress plugin. Seriously. http://tinyurl.com/yrs3na

the weird thing is that WordPress itself runs like a champ (perf issues notwithstanding). Guess who's testing on different platforms? Hmm?

Just tried a 4th anti-spam plugin. Comment submit, 500 internal server error. Lesson: don't bother running WordPress on Windows.

As usual I suspect platform differences because I'm running WP on Windows. Have we learned nothing from Java's write-once-debug-everywhere?

so between THREE different WordPress anti-spam plugins, my success rate is currently 0.0% percent. awesome. I'm gonna take up spamming.

getting parse error trying to activate reCAPTCHA Wordpress plugin. Sigh. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/184955

perhaps even more amazing than that, *cancer* sniffing dogs. Dogs rock! http://is.gd/RDY

cellphone sniffing dogs, amazing. http://is.gd/RDV

ok, this video totally delivers -- dancing liquid http://tinyurl.com/5lo53o

5 reasons why Devo is the Coolest Nerd Band Ever. Wow, I totally didn't realize they played Square Pegs. http://is.gd/RDD

ok, so is everyone's dog shipping an iPhone app? No competition there. Let's have to-do, todo, To Do apps queued up, people! chop chop!

thanks for all the MSBuild fail-to-delete suggestions! sent to the team.. it's hella annoying when 10% of your builds randomly fail.

you people who put your taskbar on the top of the screen -- what is *wrong* with you? seriously.

our MSBuild task randomly fails, because sometimes the "delete" task can't manage to delete the contents of the web folder. Annoying. Ideas?

just had fun making our search results summarize and highlight like Google does. Regex ftw! [^>]{0,75}(wpf|treeview)[^<]{0,75}

God I love Acronis. Software crack, and only $25. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001045.html

denormalizing the crap out of the stack overflow database. Pure normalization is like frigging kryptonite to performance.

IMO, the only valid answer to "why'd you install unstable alpha/beta dev crap on your primary box" is "because I hate myself"

firebug is great for stepping through and debugging javascript, of course http://tinyurl.com/2z4tvg

why do people think Firebug completely obviates Web Developer? I prefer webdev for *most* of what I do. Firebug is kinda.. overkill-y

At 20 I worried what everyone thought of me. At 40, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. At 60 I realized no one was ever thinking of me

@wilshiply why isn't our sweet, hot ASCII love enough for you? snob.

I think this milk is bad. YOU TASTE IT! aka, please criticize my BalanceTags() routine http://tinyurl.com/58xvv7

why do I even bother linking directly to YouTube videos, they're always pulled. Link to *youtube search terms*. Always.

"What existential threat do we face greater than those of the past 800 years?" http://is.gd/QQz

I really don't like anything, up to and including myself. I am so emo, it hurts -- let the cutting begin!

Why Google Hates The XML Angle Bracket Tax, Too: http://www.cafeconleche.org/oldnews/news2008July8.html

"the twin trends of inflating wages and deflating hardware spell the end of shared hosting" agree; VM futures http://is.gd/QPf

via @waxpancake awesome Wall Street Journal (?!) article on 4chan and YTMND http://is.gd/QOM

Dubya making me embarrassed to be an American. Again. http://is.gd/PNN

experimenting with inferring tag relationships on stack overflow : similar to http://taggalaxy.de/ but sans 3D bullcrap

There's just not a proper social networking site for misanthropes. I sense a clear market need. TechCrunch: your move.

Gruber : Apple :: Obasanjo : Facebook

Joan Jett's Bad Reputation is the perfect fake plastic rock song. Rock Band 2 FTW. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI

"foreach() his own."

encouraging @betsyphd to get an iPhone v2 because her current phone was, I kid you not, a prize in a crane arm game. Seriously. Sad.

the depressing part is that your customers generally ARE lying, stealing bastards, so.. sort of a wash, really.

Zombies getting killed, girls in bikinis -- what's not to like? http://is.gd/QFk

Wow, Star Wars Force Unleashed looks.. really good. Being evil is gameplay gold: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53540

my coding strategy in a nutshell: "what is the stupidest thing that could possibly work?"

want to upgrade our dedicated server from 4gb to 8gb, provider quotes +$200/month. Uh.. I don't think so? Still negotiating.

"Premature AJAXulation"

So this "C" thing, apparently it came before Java? You mean like the band Paul McCartney was in before Wings?

in other good news, managed to double the speed of SanitizeHtml function by measuring perf and removing idiocy (my own, I mean)

wow, so rare to find a website still using <frames> in non-ironic fashion

on the other hand, I am very meticulous about keeping my hardware drivers up to date. Windows is only as stable as your hardware drivers.

the guy on our team with the Mac has, by far, the most crashes and problems. VMWare fusion disappearing, OS crashing, etc. Just sayin'.

The so-far track list for Rock Band 2 is making me giggle like a schoolgirl. Elvis Costello's Pump It Up? Awesome.

clarification: Massive EXTERNALLY VISIBLE productivity tax.

google real world image search http://wrongdistance.com/?p=1937

I CARE DEEPLY. Well, not about what you or what you're doing. That's true.

beautiful medical animations http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/demoReel.html

Dr. Sbaitso was my only friend. http://tinyurl.com/hkbrh

the wilhelm scream compilation http://tinyurl.com/yqc24k

emails with (no subject) do not inspire confidence.

why can't I find a HTML tag balancing algorithm anywhere. Hmm.

m.c. hammer + addams family = awesome http://tinyurl.com/66thlj