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06/07/08
Hit By Zoo Data Migration Errors
I took a half-day holiday to go to the Calgary Zoo with my wife, my baby and some friends.
At the gate, when I presented our three membership cards, I and I alone was hit with my card 'coming up with an error'. Apparently, when the zoo switched its… more »
06/02/08
The Vacuous "Good Person" Test
On a website registered to Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, the "Good Person Test" is a textbook example of that particular kind of monochromatic religious reasoning that just falls down under light dissection. It aims to gently but firmly pinch you by the… more »
05/26/08
Next 419 Scam: Death Threats?
Not content with letting me in on my European lottery winnings, or being a company representative, or helping ousted generals smuggle their money out of foreign countries, they have now outdone themselves with THE DEATH THREAT.
Full text and very… more »
05/12/08
Expelled Blog Moderation On Hiatus
They are normally fairly timely with moderating comments over on the Expelled! movie blog but, unusually, the moderation has been out of commission there for over a week and a half so far.
Now it could be that there is just one guy and he went on… more »
05/05/08
Wirthless Expelled Review
Based on the misrepresentations in the Expelled! movie, reason tells me that a unilaterally positive review is liable to partake of a number of factual inaccuracies in the movie, and add its own bad conclusions.
Well, one out of one so far.
In a… more »
04/30/08
ORA-06575: Package or function X is in an invalid state
If you go throw a function into Oracle, and it's wrong, e.g.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Banana IS -- Oops, no return!
BEGIN
RETURN SUBSTUR('Banana',2,5); -- Oops, misspelled!
END;
You will get no warnings about this in most tools until it comes… more »
04/27/08
Stein's "Just An Opinion" On Science
From a more recent episode of the "Why do people laugh at creationists?" series, Stein is shown being interviewed by Paul Crouch, Jr. on Trinity Broadcasting Network.
The episode is here.
Now, a lot of this particular episode is not all that… more »
04/26/08
Satan Loves Low Cholesterol
Someone reposted a Kent Hovind video about the dangers of evolution. There was one slide that just caught my eye, because it was sitting in the freeze frame, ostensibly showing the evil population control that will be foisted upon us all:
Reduce birth… more »
04/22/08
Expelled! Race-Baiting Hooks A Few
Ah, Expelled!
We knew it was going to be a propaganda-laden train-wreck from the start, despite repeated protests that because we hadn't even seen the movie, we were missing the point, or what have you.
Well, it's an intellectual farce, and there are… more »
04/18/08
String To Time In C#
If you are trying to get a time into a DateTime from a string, it's relatively easy:
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(inputText,CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
DateTimeStyles.NoCurrentDateDefault);
The NoCurrentDateDefault is pretty important. Otherwise,… more »
04/14/08
Final Death of an Iconic Restaurant
The Westin's iconic, classy Owl's Nest restaurant, after morphing into the "O. N. Grill", which I did not have the chance to visit, has finally packed it in. What do we have there instead? A Keg.
I do not like fancy restaurants, by and by, but the… more »
02/23/08
Calgary Transit's Sonic Assault
Well, well.
I just had to blog about high-frequency young-person annoyance devices, didn't I?
Just this past week, Calgary Transit has been piping in a rising and falling very high pitch tone at McKnight station...
JERKS!
It's pretty much constant,… more »
02/16/08
In Which Ben Stein Shows His Edumacation
I've been a little preoccupied answering and posing questions over on the Expelled! blog. It's a blog related to the upcoming movie, Expelled!, which purports to show how "mean Big Science" is "unfairly oppressing" "noble truth-seeking Intelligent… more »
02/12/08
Too High A Hearing Range
Adam was wondering about my 17.4 kHz comment...
What it relates to is that there's a device in Britain which uses high frequencies to annoy teenagers away from the premises:
A controversial weapon in the war against antisocial behaviour should be… more »
02/07/08
