Left-Handed Redheads of MySql
I have just received an e-mail in my work inbox titled “calling all women of SharePoint”, that started with the words “Working in the male-dominated IT industry isn’t easy”. It […]
Miscellaneous
Downloading Oracle Driver for .NET…
feels like I am trying to download a semi-legal DVD-copying software. It starts simple enough: just go to this page. Shows a list of things to download, it does not […]
Site Downtime Due to Sandy
My web site was down for about 2 days, due to hurricane Sandy. Our town was affected only by strong winds: no major flooding or snow. The only inconvenience I […]
Windows 8 My Brain
A couple of weeks ago I have found time to download release version of Windows 8 from MSDN that was available since August 15th. I installed in a virtual machine […]
Android Ice Cream Sandwitch (angry rant)
I got this update several weeks ago on my Motorola Razr, and it still feels bad, very bad. They broke so many things that did not need fixing: 1. Keyboard. […]
Visual Studio Live New York Day 1 (Non-Technical)
I was a little late for the keynote @8AM, but I don’t think I missed much. I expected some kind of strategic speech, but it was yet another demo with […]
Torvalds and Git
Whatever you might think of Torvalds personally, this (Wikipedia) is downright impressive. The development of Git began on 3 April 2005.[12] The project was announced on 6 April, and became […]
LiveJournal CrossPoster test
The old Live+Press plugin is not holding water anymore. I patched it several times, but as WordPress evolves, it keeps falling behind. Time to move to something new.
Hasta la Vista, Baby!
On April 10, 2012 MS Vista enters extended support (slashdot.org). This means no new service packs or IE versions. And I am still using XP – both at home and […]
Outlook/Exchange Search Performance…
sucks. I did a search for a message from John Doe sent within last month that contains word “foo”. Took about 5 minutes on a folder with about 9300 items. […]