July 2005 - Posts
- More Cool Stuff From SQL Server 2005!
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Raymond Lewallen wrote a nice piece today about the new INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators in the upcoming SQL Server 2005 . Microsoft is making T-SQL devgelopment easier all the time!
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- Microsoft Announces MSN Virtual Earth
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Over the past several months, products like Google Maps , Google Earth , and Yahoo Maps , have turned the world of mapping upside-down. Today, after much anticipation, Microsoft officially threw their hat in the ring by announcing the release of the beta
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- Google Maps + NASA Imagery = Google Moon
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Holy cow! As if Google Maps and Google Earth wasn't enough, along comes Google Moon ! No kidding. Just as the name implies, it's just like Google Maps, except it covers the moon! (duh!) Check it out for yourself. Hint - Just for the heck of it, zoom in
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- Do I Really Look Like Stephen King?
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I've heard it said that everyone has a double somewhere, but I can't say that I've ever bumped into mine. There was one time at the San Francisco airport when a woman came up to me and stared for an uncomfortably long time. Finally she said “I know someone
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- The Power of the Press: Rewrite Opinions as Necessary
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The New York Times recently published a reader-contributed opinion written by an Army reserve officer. Then on Friday they actually came clean that they had incorrectly 'edited' it. I have a couple of issues with their characterization of the situation...
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- 7/7/05 -- Today We're All British
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The London Bombings
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- R.I.P. My Little Cell Phone
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Over five hours of emergency surgeries were to no avail. My cool little cell phone has finally passed on. It turns out that briefly being submerged in soda, followed almost immediately by a three-foot drop onto asphalt was more than the little guy could
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