Eleven and Thirteen

Monday, March 17, 2008 in crooked views | Leave a comment

I find it strange how numbers correlate in your life. Recently I discovered a pattern that caught my fancy.

In 1999 I was laid off from a company on Friday the thirteenth, the number has been lucky to me ever since. Really the best thing that could of happened to me at the time.

Just recently I submitted my resignation to my employer on March 13th, not a Friday, but hey.

The head hunter who help me find my current job, was located on the eleventh floor of their building. My current job is located on the eleventh floor. My new job, again, is on the eleventh floor.

I find it very interesting indeed.

Well I actually did it

Thursday, March 13, 2008 in life | 2 comments

I have resigned from my nine year old job.  Not a simple task I must say.  Yes I have a new job lined up, I’m not an idiot.  This is going to be a very interesting day for sure.

New water bottle ad campaigns coming soon

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 in general | Leave a comment

In the coming weeks, perhaps even days, the major water bottlers will boast on their labels that they are “Pharmaceutical Free”.  And of course with this will be an increase in an already expensive product.  To actually remove the pharmaceutical remnants is expensive.  It requires methods like reverse osmosis which doesn’t yield as much water as what was put in the filter.

One more day

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 in life | Leave a comment

One more day and the seas will calm, the sky will open up into a beautiful blue.  Just one more day…

Twitter

Monday, March 10, 2008 in general | Leave a comment

Ok, so I signed up for a twitter account. It all seems really lame, but I thought I would check out a few of these “community” services.

You setup an account, trying to figure out a username nobody has used yet. Of course brettski is taken, I am usually late on that one (go figure). Once you set your username, password, and email account, they ask you for your email address and password for public email services (like Yahoo!) so they can check your address books for names that may have a twitter account. Like I am giving anyone any of my passwords, please. Who would do that, unless it was a total junk account? I just don’t want them to have that information. Sure it says, “We don’t store your login information.” Sure, whatever.

It is what it is, my lame existence on another lame web service, twitter.

Austria

Thursday, February 28, 2008 in general | Leave a comment

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.063397,12.864304&spn=0.112887,0.246162&z=12

I Am Truly X Challenged

Monday, February 25, 2008 in computer hell | 5 comments

I am truly X challenged, X windows that is.  I just cannot get X to run for anything.  I get the gist of it, I have surely used it, but set it up form nothing, and I get nowhere.

At least two years ago, I was trying to setup up X windows on OpenBSD (I think it was 3.8 then) and try as I may, I could not get it to run.  I scraped trying, I only have on installation left and it’s all text. 🙂

So recently, over the last couple of weeks, I have been working with Gentoo.  I really like Gentoo, it’s a pain to setup, but its because of all the options and the ability to only build into it what you need.  My IBM R40 installation is very quick for such an old machine.  The issue, as usual, is that I cannot get X to work.  I am truly X Challenged.

Why can’t there be a step-by-step guide explaining all the different pieces that are needed to get X to run.  I don’t want anything fancy, just Windowmaker with perhaps wdm as a manager.  Not sure really, because I have never successfully set it up from scratch.

So if you have a good walk through that you can point me to which explains the different pieces I need to get X working, I will be very grateful.

Happy Kid Moment

Monday, February 11, 2008 in life | Leave a comment

A cute story from my wife.

My wife was driving my son home from school and asked how his day was.

“It was fine.”, my son replied.

“Anything new happen at school today?”, my wife asked.

“No not really.”, “Well we are changing our seats tomorrow.”, my son replied

“Oh really, who do you get to sit next to?”

“Just Raeann.”

“Just Raeann, eh?”, my wife said devilishly.

Now this is the painful part for me, I used hate it when my mother would do this stuff. I would be so embarrassed even if we where the only ones there.  So here she goes…

My wife pseudo sings, “Brett and Raeann sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g.  First comes love, then comes marriage…”

My son breaks in here and asks, “What is k-i-s-s….?”

“Kissing.”, answers my wife.

She continues, “Brett and Raeann sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g.  First comes love, then come marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage.”

And to that my five year-old son’s response was, “You know, I really can’t climb a tree.”

Specifying a Different Port Number in SQL Management Studio

Sunday, February 10, 2008 in computer hell | 5 comments

I couldn’t believe the hassle it was trying to find how to specify a different port number when using SQL Server Management Studio. And of course it’s pretty easy too.

Below we have a typical connection dialog for Management Studio:
SQL Management Studio Login

The Server name text box is where the server address (instance) goes. In this example I am using the IP address 192.168.38.1

To specify the port number use a comma and then the port number after it.

E.g. 192.168.38.1, 14333

That’s it, that is all you need to do. You would think something this important would be in the help screen when you press help.

It’s Not a System Tray

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 in computer hell | Leave a comment

No it’s not a system tray, it’s the Icon Notification Area.  There now you know.

Sure System Tray sounds better, kind of makes sense, but perhaps that’s simply because we have used that name for so long.  It is what it is.

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