As I have previously noted, on last Friday I passed the test for Amateur Radio Technician level. Ever since then I’ve been eagerly awaiting my new callsign. The Volunteer Examiners said it would take about a week to a week and a half, but that didn’t stop me from logging into the FCC every 6 [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Review: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
I went into this film knowing nothing more than it was based on a book and by the title had some affiliation with Greek Mythology, a topic on which I did quite a bit of reading in my youth (and yes that means I also watched Hercules and Xena – minor sidenote Lucy Lawless is [...]
Thank you Apple for cleaning up the AppStore
# of Apps removed from App Store by AppShopper.com In case you haven’t heard, Apple recently decided to ban most “sexy” applications from the iTunes app store, nearly 6,000 in total. In brief, they removed anything that had any implied sexuality up to anything showing skin at all. CNN Money put forth the theory that [...]
Driving Tax vs Gas Tax
This post was inspired by: an article from the Washington Post. Currently we pay a tax on each gallon of gasoline we buy. Part of it is Federal, part State, and possibly even a local part (don’t know anywhere like this, but it is a possibility I suppose). As we move toward more fuel efficient [...]
Jon & John – Now with 100% more Ham
A long time ago, when I was but a wee little chibi, still in middle school, I was interested in Ham Radio. I checked out the book to study, even when to a local convention type thing (well I convinced my father to take me, then proceeded to key up the radios that were out [...]
How To: Unfuck (restore) Firefox 3.6 tab opening order
If you’re a regular user of Firefox (as I have been since way back before 1.0), or ANY OTHER piece of software that has tabs in it, you know that when you open a new tab, it opens all the way at the fucking end (on the right). As of Firefox 3.6 they changed this [...]
I hate people; they make me sick
“Gasp!” you say to yourself, “He is so anti-social now that even the concept of people makes him ill”. Ok, well, maybe not exactly. I’m sick sick, as in I have a cold. It annoys me to no great end. The problem isn’t the sniffling or the coughing or anything like that, those symptoms might [...]
DB2 LUW vs zOS: Selecting from nested subselect
SQL0104N An unexpected token “” was found following “”. Expected tokens may include: “CORRELATION NAME”. SQLSTATE=42601 This was the error that I got while attempting to execute a stored procedure under DB2 v8.1 for z/OS. Being quite confused about it, I googled for the answer. I didn’t find one, but I did find this google [...]
Recipe: Brett’s Kit Kat Ice Cream Pie
Ingredients: Pie Shell 1.5 Quarts Dreyer’s Fat Free Vanilla Frozen Yogurt 4 Kit Kat candy bars (16 individual bars – you can use the Fun/Snack size Kit Kats as well, but will need 16 packs of those since they are roughly equivalent to one bar each) Kahlua Directions: Bake Pie Crust in your standard 9″ [...]
Today in: Taking the day off!
Happy Presidents Day everyone! As today is a Federal holiday, we strongly believe in everyone taking the day off! All holidays should be like the 4th of July, ya know, where everyone has taken the day off and goes and does something nice and relaxing (like crowding onto a beach in Tahoe to watch fireworks). [...]