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This is what happens to Twits™ with weak passwords...: Whoops. Or perhaps Twitter has a feed injection bug that’s been exploited? Maybe Anna Kournikova’s eponymous worm has a new Twitter-focused incarnation? Who knows? Maybe the good folks @ the Code Project really do want to help out on the biological front? Read More...
Posted 27 July 09 03:31 by reedme | 0 Comments
Filed under You're doing it wrong!, Twitter, passwords, spam
We need to do $@#%ing research to learn this?: Speaking on behalf of all men with a workshop or a garage (which reminds me, I have a top 10 list that I need to post somewhere from a couple weekends back), this research is a big “Duh!” Why do people get paid to do research like this? How can I get Read More...
Posted 13 July 09 02:39 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under stupid science, language, annoyances, You're doing it wrong!
In other words, if I get promoted that means what...?: The way I read these alleged research results, a lottery is just as effective at picking people for promotions as what we’ve been doing for years? But is there a better way of choosing individuals for promotion? It turns out that there is, say Pluchino Read More...
Posted 08 July 09 09:59 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under stupid science, geek humor, research, You're doing it wrong!, fiction, management
Note to Self: Label shipping containers more innocuously...: It almost reads like something from “When I am an Evil Overlord...” The arrested men had setup an elaborate surveillance operation of the prison that involved a camouflaged tent, powerful binoculars, telephoto lenses, and motion detection sensors. But Read More...
Posted 06 July 09 09:33 by reedme | 0 Comments
Filed under You're doing it wrong!, legal, Note2Self, remote control, zeppelin, escape, prison
Sybase loves AdventureWorks2008?: A SQL Ranger friend of mine in the UK gave me the heads up to this yesterday. (Thanks, Ben!!) Apparently, back in December 2008, Sybase ported some of our samples to SQL Anywhere. Needless to say, I’ve got mixed feelings about Sybase porting AdventureWorks Read More...
Posted 22 January 09 08:24 by reedme | 5 Comments
Filed under database, SQL Server, samples, data modeling, database design, free stuff, data programmability, AdventureWorks, open source, weird, You're doing it wrong!, data quality, weight loss, Sybase, SQL Anywhere?
We are sooo doomed as a species.: I bump into people now and then, even up here in the near orbit of Redmond, who either don’t have an email address or don’t check it regularly. Being a hyper-connected person (my man-portable gadgets radiate enough EM to keep me warm in the winter), these Read More...
Posted 17 December 08 08:41 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under geek humor, research, weird, You're doing it wrong!, email, bleep, horror, internet
How reliable is your data source?: It seems like aeons ago (not even a decade yet) when I was @ a little start-up that was assimilating real estate data to further our digital business model and making sales to web-savvy home buyers at a discount. So many funny stories, so little time... Read More...
Posted 10 December 08 03:13 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under operational maturity, You're doing it wrong!, compliance, data quality, data governance
Do you want the bad news first? Or the worse news?: Oh noes!! "We're interested in seeing COBOL as a first-class citizen on .NET and on the Azure cloud," [chief technology officer of application modernization at Micro Focus] said. "Wherever cloud computing is going, we want COBOL to be running Read More...
Posted 18 November 08 10:16 by reedme | 4 Comments
Filed under fungibility, You're doing it wrong!, bleep, Cthulhu, cancer, COBOL, cloud
That’s not teen spirit I smell…: I’m not sure that I’m ready to smell my video games yet… Researchers in Birmingham have been developing new technology to add smells to the virtual world of video games. Firm adds smell to video games (bbc.co.uk) We’ve already got people getting nauseas Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 03:50 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under video games, gadgets, gaming, You're doing it wrong!
Voice Command: FORMAT C: [ENTER]: Well, that’s how the joke used to go about Vista voice command... Apparently somebody thought it would be fun to actually implement something similar in their mobile o/s. On purpose or not. Heh. The bug can hardly be called a security problem, given it Read More...
Posted 11 November 08 09:40 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under security, gadgets, geek humor, mobile computing, developers, gadget, You're doing it wrong!
We don‘t need yet another database security czar.: I was reading this article about recent data breaches that was recommending Yet Another Government Agency® and (no surprise) I started getting mad: A program to share best practices among agencies at all levels of government and create cybersecurity templates, Read More...
Posted 23 October 08 09:29 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under security, database, operational maturity, You're doing it wrong!
I’ve had data days like that...: Brian Walker has a good pair of articles on Thou Shalt Nots™: I had the chance to examine three business databases in five weeks and I'm still staggered by what I found. These are SQL Server databases serving as critical business foundations for companies Read More...
Posted 26 September 08 03:22 by reedme | 1 Comments
Filed under consulting, data modeling, database design, developers, operational maturity, You're doing it wrong!

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