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06/23/10
Language Review: Russian
Russian [1 - see footnote]:AlphabetDifficulty: MediumMuch of the issue with the Russian alphabet is that there are distracting similarities to the English alphabet. The letter that looks like a C (с) is pronounced like an S. The 'P' (&#… more »
04/02/10
Blocking Unwanted Callers
I must admit, a few months ago, we were bandying about the idea of changing our phone number.
Why?
The incessant barrage of telemarketers and scammers was getting to be too much. They outpaced our actual calls from friends and family by about a 4:1… more »
12/20/09
Scammers Using Our Phone Number
We got a call from a person wanting to buy a Jeep from us a couple of days back. That seemed pretty odd, but hey, wrong numbers happen. Then it kept happening. No huge influx, but 3-4 calls per day. I was home for one today, and decided to ask them… more »
10/06/09
Annotated Kitsch
There are people out there who can out-kitsch Thomas Kinkade.
When they do, I dearly hope that they will be as lovingly annotated as this lovely picture of Jesus holding the Constitution, surrounded by a plethora of faces, many familiar.
Mousing ov… more »
09/23/09
Ari's Got A Blog
My good internet friend, Ari Jokimäki from Finland, now has a blog!His main focuses on the blog are discordant redshift systems - that is, galaxies, quasars, etc. where the objects do not seem to be at their redshift distance - and the history of cos… more »
06/15/09
Passing By Reference To SQL Server Stored Procedures
This is pretty simple to accomplish, though how exactly to do it can be hard to find.
Quite simply, you add OUTPUT to your parameter lists, on both your procedure definition and your actual call, like so:
Defining:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TestValue… more »
05/21/09
Bill 44 Passes Second Reading
This bill has been causing some stir in Alberta.
Essentially, the bill modifies the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act RSA-2000 cH-14 here with modifications that, for the most part, add sexual orientation to these protected categories… more »
04/28/09
Hack Attack
A hearty thank you to the folks who do my hosting for catching this.
A hacker or script kiddie managed to upload a somewhat nasty-looking package into my cgi-bin directory. I haven't thoroughly investigated the code yet, but from the looks of it, the… more »
02/18/09
Theory and Evidence
The phrase "it's only a theory" is bandied about in some circles these days, but it's inappropriate when it comes to talking about a scientific capital-T Theory, in particular one whose sesquicentennial takes place this year.
Cries of "prove it" and c… more »
02/09/09
Christopher Booker - Welcome to Twit Club
In this, the 200th anniversary year of the birth of Charles Darwin, some people feel obliged to weigh in on the subjects of Darwin, or evolution, or what have you, and show themselves to be right twits in the process.
Take a look at Christopher Booker… more »
02/07/09
Law of Equivalent Toddler Badness
One thing I have noticed about our toddler - your toddler may vary - is that if he is ever up to anything bad - say, for example opening DVD cases and ripping the inserts out of them, and we STOP him - he will proceed onto things of "equivalent badness".… more »
01/26/09
PZ Myers' Calgary Talk
With the kind babysitting services of mom-in-law, we were able to make our way up to the university in pretty decent time, all the while forcing the TomTom to continually update its trajectory - we're not about to make some annoying merges to save a few… more »
01/19/09
PZ Myers Coming To Calgary
The indomitable and unapologetically controversial Paul (PZ) Myers of the Pharyngula blog is coming to the University of Calgary next Sunday afternoon, January 25th (date confirmed!) in the ICT building (see here for maps of the campus), room 102 as the… more »
12/02/08
Stephen Butterfield Takes the Alpha Course
You may have seen the ads for the Alpha Course floating around your town, perhaps saying "Is There More to Life Than This?", though you might wonder that if the person who climbed the mountain in that picture has that question, you might not need to ask… more »
10/25/08
AronRa's Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
For a thorough treatment of the assumptions, presumptions and myths underlying creationism, you can hardly do better than to take in the scruffy-but-erudite AronRa's series on the Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism.
His expositions on transitional… more »
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