I am working on a gun for my Mr. Freeze costume for our Superhero night. I have a product here called "Haze In A Can" by Fantasy FX (http://www.citcfx.com/product_fantasy_fx_01.php). The can is about 7.5 inches rim to rim and including the nozzle 9 inches. The nozzle ( Read more... )

I had a coding epiphany the other day - kind of a "duh" moment. We've been doing error handling for the applications we've built for at least the last ten years or so. I get hundreds of them a day for just one of my applications. I use them as a general gage of the health of the application. If I start getting ten times as many emails for a ( Read more... )

I very much support the further investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman needs to be arrested and tried before a jury. I applaud that the media has shined a light on this case and that in doing so it brought it to the attention of the DOJ. If thats what it takes then thats what it takes ( Read more... )

Its been forever since I posted here. Its probably better for long form posts than Facebook. Its also better for keeping things somewhat hidden from the general facebook public. Not that people can't find my public posts here but I feel a bit weird posting stuff where my mother, family, and co-workers regularly read ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Kate and my 1 year anniversary. Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes and cards and FB posts. I totally didn't expect them but they were definitely appreciated. This year has been wonderful and everything I ever wanted in a relationship. we get along swimmingly and everyday we spend together is just better and better. Seriously I ( Read more... )

Passover week is still going strong and I am working my way through the leftovers until the end of the week. Last night we finished the chopped liver and the guacamole. Tonight the chicken and the salad will go.

Lessons learned for next year:

• We need a cap on the amount of people coming. Not because we don't want all the people in the world, we ( Read more... )

So spammers are getting brilliant. I received a google alert for my name last night - I totally do vanity searches. And there is this prom dress maker in Poland who had this nonsequiter in the source code of their web page:
Were here to study everything about the so adorable, expensive dress prom designer a baby Santa Suit. Please excuse the ( Read more... )

Now that voting is over, I totally wanna share who my favorites were. Mind you - these are not necessarily the people I voted for, just the auditions who I felt had some really entertaining videos. Listed alphabetically ( Read more... )

I want to use a SEO friendly link button on my page. Mind you i am sure that the page is really not all that accessible as the page I am linking to will still have javascript running on it - but thats besides the point. The correct way to do this would be to put the href thats generated by a link button into the onclick event and return void or ( Read more... )

SQL friends to the rescue:

( Cut for those who don't know SQL )