And here's what we got:
So I’ve mentioned at some point or another that a lot of my work at RY has been developing jquery plugins and the like to make our lives easier during the busy reporting season. Overall they’ve worked out pretty well, but every once in a while someone finds a bug with one (or all) that needs addressing. Since they’re my creations, It’s usually put to me to correct these things.
Most of the time, these bugs are a small oversight on my part, or just straight-up stupidity. I’m not perfect, and I’ll gladly fix these things as they come up. I don’t consider bugs in my code that people find to be an affront to my skill; in reality I find them an opportunity to get better at what I do.
Then you run into something like a bug using setInterval, and things just stop making sense.
I am so very sorry that this is the first movie review I have written in… However long it’s been… has to be for TRON Legacy. Rudy 2 doesn’t really count. Hey it’s my website and what I say goes, junior. I’ll do my best to follow a format or at least some kind of [...]
Back in the day, I worked at a place that, while educational, was terrible to work at in a first world sort of way. I wasn’t getting paid my due, the atmosphere wasn’t what one would call supportive, and the management was… well that’s where this story comes in. I won’t name the company, though [...]
So the recently passed weekend offered to me an adventure: troubleshooting the Internet connection at Theresa’s place. Now some of you may be wondering how troubleshooting someones Internet connection could be an adventure, and I completely understand your confusion and/or skepticism. Believe me that I wasn’t expecting an adventure for something that was, at the time, very straight-forward.
You see on Sunday afternoon, the Internet connection at Theresa’s house was dreadfully slow, and would randomly disconnect for a couple seconds at a time. Just enough time to cancel any sort of operation you were hoping to do while browsing the Interwebs. I, being the only tech-savvy person about, was given the … opportunity to correct the situation.
This is not what I wanted to do with my weekend, but sadly when your girlfriend is Internet dependent and gets frustrated when things don’t work (don’t we all though?) it makes fixing said Internet.
I’ll preface this by saying that since getting my XBox 360, I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly. It works fairly well, It’s shiny, I can now play games from my bed, it treats me nicely. I know a lot of people will hate on me for getting a 360, what with the red ring of death issue, blah blah blah. I’ll say now that the Wii needs elbow room, the PS3 has absolutely nothing on it that I want to play (that’s a lie, Little Big Planet interests me greatly) and I don’t feel like having to repeatedly upgrade my computer just to play games that almost always come out for a console. I’m going for the hassle-free approach.
The irony in that statement will become apparent as you continue to read. It blows my mind how much effort and extra money all of this cost me.
Also it should be mentioned that the span of all of the following events took place over a week and a bit, because I was only at my home for about two days over the entire time-line.
As a bit of a change of pace, I’m going to talk about Poverty. I’ve joined with many, many other online writers today to join in and participate in talking about this years subject (Poverty, in case you forgot).
I thought at first about writing about Poverty all over the world. Then I thought about writing about Poverty in your own country. That’s when I realized I could talk about my own country, because damn it, I live here and this shit’s important. This is probably one of the issues closest to my heart on this planet and I’ll be damned to give up an opportunity to help.
How good is your memory? Chances are it’s better than mine. At the very least, your short-term memory has to be better than mine, as mine borders on ‘utterly pathetic.’
As i recently mentioned, I’ve redone my website a tad and I busted my ass to cover as many of the style bugs as possible. Everything was going well until I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6. Now I’m not saying the version of Wordpress busted my website good and proper, but that’s what happened.
Something I lack.
For the last month, I’ve had no time in which to complete some things that I really want to get done. Sadly, my priorities are all messed up. Well, alright, not messed up, but due to their arrangement I’m forced to put things on the back burner.
I tried to create a Custom List. I had event receivers attached to custom lists and i got this:
Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘Name’, table ‘[somesharepointcontentdatabase].dbo.EventReceivers’;
column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.
I found out what this means and how to get around it.
So recently Microsoft was doing something. I say something because I don’t know what it was they were doing, only that it affected many users of the popular chat client Live Messenger (MSN Messenger for those not bothering to keep up). Basically it cut off a good section of people – myself included – from the service. The best part is that different people were getting different error messages, and there were different workarounds that worked some of the time.