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 the …

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 (2)

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)