There's an old, old joke:

A patient goes to the doctor and says, "Doctor, doctor, it hurts if I do this!"
Doctor looks at the patient and says, "Then don't do that."

Now the rant:

If you're using my software you may, of course, use it in any way you see fit. However, if you use a field or a function in a way that it was never designed to be ( Read more... )

I went to the gym this morning--I go most Friday mornings, not to mention Mondays, Wednesdays, and occasionally Saturdays. I was most of the way through my warmup, getting my portable video player and headphones set up, when the woman on the treadmill next to me said "You need to step that up a level." I think my response was something on the ( Read more... )

Rita was watching some Dateline (or similar) show on internet predators this evening, and I think I've finally figured out what bothers me about it. The setup--and I do mean "set-up"--was someone pretending to be a thirteen year old girl on the internet, allowing a number of grown men to "persuade" her to meet up with them for sex. They came to a ( Read more... )