Archive for February, 2003
Tuesday, February 18th, 2003
Who’s the bigger sucker, a
Who’s the bigger sucker, a lottery player or a keno player?
Also while in Vegas, Greg and I were arguing over the relarive merits (or lack thereof) of playing keno and the lottery. There is an excellent website by Dr. Math that has all kinds of goodies on math in everyday life situations. The [...]
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2003
Top Sayings of 1987 While
Top Sayings of 1987
While in Vegas this past weekend, I kept trying to remember the 5 phrases nominated for Top Saying of 1987, as determined by Late Night with David Letterman. I
could only remember four. Finally dug them up:
Oh, Eleanor, guess who passed another stone?
It’s funny — I hate the itching, but I don’t mind [...]
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2003
Chirac: ‘New Europe’ Wrong, Childish
Chirac: ‘New Europe’ Wrong, Childish
Ya know, I’m gettin’ a little tired of ‘France equals Europe” line of reasoning coming out of Paris. A quote:
“It is not really responsible behavior. It is not well brought-up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet.”
Hello? They are agreeing with the UK, Spain, and several [...]
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Friday, February 7th, 2003
Knew I shouldn’t have stuck up for Microsoft
This morning I spoke with Chris Reid of Meidawest Online who gave me further info on the Sapphire fiasco. Turns out the
Service Patch 2, which came out this past fall, several months after the stand-alone patch, did not contain the patch for Sapphire! How can a company release a
comprehensive patch that isn’t [...]
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Thursday, February 6th, 2003
In defense of Microsoft…kinda A
In defense of Microsoft…kinda
A Korean civic rights group may soon file a class-action suit against Microsoft because they feel Redmond did not go far enough in it’s efforts to patch the hole
in its SQL Server that was exploited by the Sapphire worm recently. In defense of the beast, the hole was
discovered and a patch made [...]
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Thursday, February 6th, 2003
Back in Business!
OK, I finally got around to figuring out what was wrong with the blogger file, so I hope to make posts more often now.