Shane on September 23rd, 2005

My potato has sportingly agreed to come out to the Bob Mould show next Wednesday at First Ave. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there. I’m looking forward to actually being able to see the stage now that they’re smoke-free. Bob shares his thoughts about his new album this week in the AV [...]

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Shane on September 21st, 2005

If you work with SQL — especially with Oracle — and you don’t read Ask Tom, you are missing a goldmine of tips and tuning advice. In the words of my former colleague Andy, “That Tom guy’s the shit.” The best part of it is that Oracle pays him just to put his tips on [...]

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Shane on September 16th, 2005

I have never worked with Flash, Fireworks, or any of the other Macromedia offerings that many of my colleagues have used. The data and performance have always been much more interesting to me. But I have always kept on top of new MS offerings, and their new UI development tool — code named “Sparkle” — [...]

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Shane on September 2nd, 2005

I wonder how many blog posts out there today say something about, “It’s been a while since I’ve posted ….” It seems like many of these start with the best of intentions. As you can see, some of the links and stuff from the old posts are missing. I upgraded and decided it wasn’t worth [...]

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