Monthly Archives: April 2009

Is Agile The New Waterfall

I ran across this presentation claiming that agile is the new waterfall, that by following some method of agile dogmatically, you are merely substituting one dogma for another and you have failed to gain any learning or understanding. While this may very well be true in certain cases, it reminds me of the opening line …

April 30, 2009 – 8:52 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Total Random Hilarity

I am a huge fan of random stuff that is ridiculously funny. This qualifies and then some.

April 29, 2009 – 2:27 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Practical Tips For Combatting Swine Flu In Your Home

Found here. Plus this important tip: *There is always some flu around and flu is always killing some people. Even when a raw mutant flu manages to kill off more people than a shooting-war, flu has never ravaged whole cities as cholera or the Black Death can do. As awful pandemics go, flu is like …

April 28, 2009 – 1:15 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Remembering What You Did Last Night

Text messages from last night is my new favorite use of technology. Current fave TM: (323): just ate pastrami before passing out in my hotel room. My room smells like a petting zoo.

April 28, 2009 – 8:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (1)

Silverlight White Screen Of Death Debugging

If you’re working in Silverlight and your app suddenly starts giving you the white screen of death, chances are there’s something wrong with the markup. Of course, since the white screen of death results in zero exceptions, sometimes it’s hard to track down what the problem is. Enter the Error Console in Firefox. If you …

April 27, 2009 – 8:53 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Behavioral Easter Eggs Are Fun!

Worthwhile advice for any new parents out there.

April 27, 2009 – 6:06 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (1)

A Moment Of Silence

The Experiment will be quiet this weekend as we observe our yearly appreciation of President Bush’s (and probably President Obama’s too!) noble stand on waterboarding as we reverse-waterboard trout in Northwest Arkansas. We expect they will scream out all their terroristic plans once we convince them they are going to reverse drown. Then we will …

April 22, 2009 – 3:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Why Is Susan Boyle So Popular

An interesting take and one that certainly seems to ring true.

April 22, 2009 – 2:35 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)

The Global Warming Redemption

A story about global warming in 1 act. Fat Ass: I don’t belong here! I want to go home! I want my mother! Another Prisoner: I had your mother, she wasn’t that great! Fat Ass: You don’t understand, I’m not supposed to be here! I didn’t do it! Global warming isn’t my fault! Captain Hadley: …

April 21, 2009 – 9:45 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

What To Do When Visual Studio Freezes

Draw pictures.

April 16, 2009 – 9:07 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (1)