Monthly Archives: August 2008

ASP.Net MVC Framework and Castle

I’m cur­rently try­ing to con­vert my per­sonal foot­ball office pool soft­ware into a more generic pack­age that other peo­ple could use and poten­tially buy for run­ning their own pools in a much eas­ier fash­ion than email and Excel spread­sheets. I’ve been look­ing for a rea­son to try out the ASP.Net MVC frame­work and this seemed …

August 16, 2008 – 1:53 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Things have been slow around The Exper­i­ment lately even though my traf­fic num­bers are still show­ing a pretty healthy after-effect of get­ting linked to by Jay Fields last week. Part of the slow­ness comes from hav­ing been out of town at a golf tour­na­ment last week which ended poorly. Other causes of the silence are …

August 14, 2008 – 7:57 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

How Would You Improve Your Industry?

First off, let me start off with a geog­ra­phy les­son. If the blo­gos­phere was rep­re­sented as the US and blogs like Cod­ing Hor­ror was San Fran­cisco and Joel On Soft­ware was New York City, I might be Beaver, Okla­homa or Tulia, Texas. So when some­one like Jay (who I’m guess­ing is kind of a nice, …

August 6, 2008 – 8:34 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

More Ways To Feel Dumb

So we’re going to France next month with the entire fam­ily in tow and because I don’t want to feel like a com­plete touriste, I’m learn­ing some French. I can cur­rently say the fol­low­ing three sen­tences after hav­ing stud­ied at least sort of dili­gently all sum­mer. Why yes, I’d love mon­key thighs for din­ner. Really? …

August 5, 2008 – 10:16 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

How Inflation Steals From You

Apro­pos of my post the other day on our impend­ing finan­cial cri­sis, here’s a great source of infor­ma­tion on how infla­tion works and how it’s basi­cally the gov­ern­ment steal­ing from its cit­i­zens. I’m reminded of H.L Mencken a lot these days when he said “Every nor­mal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on …

August 5, 2008 – 9:12 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Missing the Point

Is it just me or has Jay Fields got­ten awfully elit­ist lately? First, he starts telling com­pa­nies they should hire devel­op­ers and not hack­ers (where hack­ers are peo­ple who write a lot of very good code but may not be very socia­ble) which is pretty ridicu­lous in and of itself given the fact that lots …

August 5, 2008 – 7:55 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (4)

Our Elected Leaders Mostly Suck

Start­ing with one Nancy Pelosi who appar­ently is bar­ring a vote on a topic 66% of all Amer­i­cans sup­port. This is a Demo­c­ra­tic elected offi­cial of Cal­i­for­nia stand­ing in front of Amer­ica flip­ping off all the peo­ple cur­rently pay­ing $4 a gal­lon for gas. She has decided that she alone has the right and the …

August 4, 2008 – 6:19 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Darwin Awards — Local Edition

This guy has to be a fron­trun­ner to win this year.

August 4, 2008 – 10:43 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Our Impending Financial Crisis

This arti­cle in Harpers is a must read for any­one who wants to under­stand the real cur­rent state of the Amer­i­can econ­omy. The US gov­ern­ment has manip­u­lated and mod­i­fied eco­nomic sta­tis­tics for the past 40 years in an effort to hide from the Amer­i­can peo­ple what the true state of the econ­omy is. This has …

August 4, 2008 – 7:17 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

The Dark Side Of Multitasking

There is one, you know? Even if you think there isn’t. The Daily Pal­lia­tive: Frustration

August 1, 2008 – 7:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)