Archive for February, 2006

Inefficient marketing

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

My name has been placed on various software/hardware vendors mailing lists from subscribing to certain magazines and attending tradeshows. Because of this, I recieve a steady stream of marketing pitches in the mail. One of the best that I've recieved was a nice coffee mug from Cisco. No specific ...

Sticking it to the man

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

An amazingly embarrasing way to find out that you suck as a manager. This was posted in a coffee shop in Vancouver, BC. From Beyond Robinson

Dilbert’s theorem on calculating salary

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

This theorem can be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following three postulates: * Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power (Knowledge=Power) * Postulate 2: Time is Money (Time=Money) * Postulate 3 (as every engineer knows): Power = Work / Time By ...

New award for weirdest spam that I’ve recieved

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Everybody knows the great sexual scandal known as "Klinton-Levinsky". After the relations like this Klintons popularity raised a lot! It is a natural phenomenon, because Bill as a real man in order not to shame himself when he was with Monica regularly used Voagra. What happened you see. His political ...

The sun is back

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

We're finally getting some good weather on the peninsula. It's amazing how much this can affect your mood. Just a little bit of sunshine makes everything so much better.

Java, UTF-8, and Mysql

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Found a little problem with I18N in java and mysql the other day. We're working to allow YouService to handle international characters. Our first test was to input Kanji characters into the client and then test whether we got Kanji characters back out when other clients sync'd. In order to ...