http://blog.cbl.us Just a few random things about cbl Fri, 14 May 2010 17:35:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, an hour or two after I posted my final grades last night I got an email in my college mailbox. From $STUDENT. $STUDENT is a good student. He/She was there for the majority of classes and ended up with an A- in the class. This email was sent to me ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/12/21/the-curve/ So I got a call this morning from one of the folks in the CIT department. The one that calls when you haven't posted your final grades yet. Well, I told her I'm grading and will get them posted tonight. It's done. Finals are graded. I got the last ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/12/20/finals-graded/ ...Are da bomb! I can't believe I have lived without SP's until MySQL 5.0. I mean, it's like incredibly easy now to make code more efficient and productive. Case in point. We have this Radius authentication server. Where Dialup and DSL users on our system get authenticated. The queries to ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/12/15/stored-procedures/ So I've had a week or so to play with Aperture. What can I say, except that I love it. There is a bunch of functionality that I simply don't know yet and have to use the cheat sheet for. Problems? I need a faster machine to run it. I've ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/12/13/aperture/ .. what I wouldn't give for one. Bad Part #1: Last night about 12.20am my phone rang with alerts about T1 customers being down. Came to find out that some idiot drove a car into a power pole on Dixie Drive just south of our Datacenter. Turns out that ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/12/04/a-peaceful-sunday-morning/ Day before thanksgiving I went with Randy and Kelly to install a hotspot at a new store opening today. Unfortunately, it was a wiring nightmare. Whoever wired this place did a sweet job of wiring the telco phone. You can see their method of patching into the punchdown block ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/11/25/some-peoples-wires/ Went and saw the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film this evening with the family. And all I can say is "WOW!" This show seriously rocked. I was quite impressed with the graphics in comparison with the previous films. I was a little disapointed ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/11/24/goblet/ So the past few months I've been enjoying my one channel in High-def in St. George. CBS. I found this site a while back that displays the over-the-air channels. It shows the HD channels (CBS and PBS) we get here.. plus everything else. When are we getting Fox, ABC, NBC, ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/11/20/hdtv-in-st-george/ So my take on the whole Yahoo vs Google ads is this. 1. Yahoo ads pay more per click than Google's. 2. Yahoo ads get way less clicks than Google's. 3. Yahoo ads let you target which 'type' of ads get displayed on different sites/pages.. Google just displays ads by the content on ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/11/20/google-vs-yahoo-ads/ Situation #1: Driving to work today around lunch time I was approaching the intersection at Washington and I15. The coolest thing was that there is this super pimped out Hummer-limo-vehicle. You know the type. Tinted windows. The rear passengers side window was down and two little kids were sticking their ... http://blog.cbl.us/2005/11/18/when-i-wish-i-had-my-camera/