Random Picture of the Day - 11/22/2003

 Posted on November 22, 2003

A shot of the underside of a railroad bridge that reminded me of the much taller columns of a cathedral. This is my favorite shot from this series. Shot with my Canon S200. [Read More]

Random Picture of the Day - 11/19/2003

 Posted on November 19, 2003

One of the bizarre things about Oklahoma City’s downtown is how empty it is at night. During my stroll, I passed only one other person. However, there is something really fun about being completely alone surrounded by large buildings that can hold thousands. Shot with my Canon S200. [Read More]

A Little Military Humor

 Posted on November 18, 2003

I was browsing around through my web logs this morning and I found a little bit of military humor. One of my vistors came from a machine called mulder2.chinalake.navy.mil. See, the X-Files never really will die. ;)

One More Link Post

 Posted on November 18, 2003

Last one for today, but this is an amazing piece of film and engineering:

Aparently it took over 600 takes to get this shot right. Quite an achievement.

Technology Lesson 101

 Posted on November 18, 2003

I just feel the need rant and this will probably mean nothing to most of my readers, but to any VB.NET programmers, do not assume that string functions are case-insensitive. I’ve spent about 2 days debugging code looking for this mysterious problem that was preventing users from logging into my system. Turns out that a long departed coder made the assumption about the case of the URL and was using the IndexOf function to make a decision about the status of a user. [Read More]

On Being American, Part II

 Posted on November 17, 2003

Let’s just say that I haven’t been in the posting mood, but I’ve owed Savrx a reply on his comment on On Being American for the last week. On your first point, you are, in reality, correct but not correct in terms of justice. Yes we have created a great many laws that have endowed our citizens with privileges (a right cannot be granted, only prevented) that are not granted to those without citizenship. [Read More]