Monthly Archives: March 2008

Blue Kittens

Do you some­times find your­self feel­ing like Woody Allen? Yeah, me neither.

March 29, 2008 – 6:57 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

I Really DON’T Need All That Information

So some of you will remem­ber that I made some Lenten com­mit­ments and here’s the point where I update you since I know you’ve been anx­iously await­ing all my amaz­ing self-discovery. Right. Any­way, I do feel like jot­ting down a lit­tle bit about the expe­ri­ence. We’ll start with the suc­cess first. For 40 days and …

March 26, 2008 – 8:59 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Epiphany | Comments (1)

Further Proof I Lack Self-Control

So much for the hia­tus. Fre­quently when you’re work­ing in a team envi­ron­ment using Visual Stu­dio in gen­eral and Visual Stu­dio 2008 for this spe­cific exam­ple, you’ll start to get an error dia­log when you open the solu­tion file that says “Some of the prop­er­ties asso­ci­ated with the solu­tion could not be read”. This isn’t …

March 25, 2008 – 7:35 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Non-Hiatus Hiatus

I’m toy­ing with the idea of just blog­ging over at Blow­ing Sun­shine Up Your Aspara­gus for a lit­tle while. There’s a ton of things to write about in the early spring here in Texas and my writ­ing on this blog has been, well, caus­tic lately. I’m look­ing to return to a lit­tle more mea­sured con­sid­er­a­tion …

March 25, 2008 – 7:07 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The Saga Continues

Run­ning tests requires a check­out too. Sweet Mother, Mary of Unin­tended Consequences.

March 20, 2008 – 9:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Confusing Causation With Correlation The Completely Unrelated

Let’s say you’re rea­son­ably mechan­i­cally inclined and you decide that you’re going to start chang­ing your own oil in your car instead of tak­ing it down to the Kwiky Lube for their $50 spe­cial. So you go to Wal-mart, buy all the nec­es­sary items such as oil, fil­ter, ramps, pan for the old oil and …

March 20, 2008 – 6:49 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (1)

You Can Tell It’s A Bubble By The Idiots

I’m gonna give you a quote I just read on Money.com. You just let it sink in for a minute (empha­sis mine): “At $2 a share, you might as well just let them go bank­rupt,” said Fred J. Wal­lace, a Hous­ton retiree who owns 1,500 Bear Stearns shares, which he bought last month. Wal­lace, 62 years …

March 17, 2008 – 5:24 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Money | Comments (2)

Writing In Molasses

Events in scotch-land have come to a grind­ing halt of late, deserved rants on TFS notwith­stand­ing. I haven’t been doing much writ­ing for pub­lic con­sump­tion lately for a vari­ety of rea­sons, most of which include some level of lazi­ness and alco­hol intake. I’ve had the TFS rant jump­ing around in my head for a lit­tle …

March 13, 2008 – 9:08 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

TFS

I’ve been work­ing closely with Microsoft Team Foun­da­tion Server on the project I’m cur­rently on and one thing that I’ve come to really appre­ci­ate about it is how much it sucks. It’s truly remark­able the level of suck­i­tude that ships with TFS and every day that goes by just increases my awestruc­ked­ness at its suck­i­ness. …

March 13, 2008 – 7:21 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (1)

The Caucus

So yes­ter­day was pri­mary and cau­cus day here in Texas. As far back as I can remem­ber, the pri­maries never were par­tic­u­larly impor­tant in Texas because the can­di­dates had all pretty much been cho­sen by the time we had ours but this year was dif­fer­ent, at least for the Democ­rats. Because that wimp Fred Thomp­son …

March 5, 2008 – 9:18 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)