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Well, I decided it was time to buy a real truck and stop my insane fishing excursions in a sedan so I bought a new 2009 Toyota Tacoma. Read the rest of this entry »

My name is Michael. I am sending this blog today with my cellphone using nothing but my voice. I think the concept is pretty damn cool. listen

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Homebrewers take heed:

Some time back I had what could only be considered a freak accident happen. I thought it worthy of shooting a few photographs of the event in hopes I can prevent this from ever happening to someone else. It seems water not only can extinguish a fire, but it can start one as well.
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>мебеликомпютри is some fugly SQL.

If anyone has a better way, please tell me, but this is how I get the beginning and end dates of the current month. The date_add with 0 days in the first section just gets the date nice and 0-padded and probably isn’t necessary.

select date_add(concat(year(curdate()),’-',month(curdate()),’-',’1′), interval 0 day) as mo_start,
date_sub(date_add(concat(year(curdate()),’-',month(curdate()),’-',’1′), interval 1 month), interval 1 day) as mo_end;

One should never update a copy of an active record. How the hell do you get this simple concept across to users? I maintain a number of reports that I go to great lengths to insure that they data is coming from authoritative records. I can then direct users to whatever authority needed to fix the main record. This does several things with the most important of that being encouraging a behavior that will result in the erroneous master record being fixed. Everybody benefits, and the end user is happy. …yet still end users want me to “fix the local copy” which I must refuse and become the bad guy. Grrr…just one of the many IT gremlins we all face I guess…

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