Archive For June, 2003
Esos shows a good way of removing duplicate entries from a database table. Of course, if primary keys were used this shouldn’t happen, but doing a select distinct into another table is neat !
I went for a walk earlier today and promptly got lost as I tried to return to work. I walked down Wells St. to Congress, instead of walking one block the other direction to Washington.. *doh* On the way I took a few photos.. This is the Chicago Board of Trade and a very famous [...]
Wow! Some truely amazing photos here. This guy “develops” photographs on tree leaves. There’s a few striking images from the Vietnam War here. (via the Sony Talk forum) PS. yes, I bought the Sony DSC-F717. Who wants to buy a Fujifilm 2800z?
“Let the buyer beware.” I came across this and thought, ‘wow!’ Then I googled, and found this thread. DON’T DEAL WITH THEM!!! They are All Liar’s, Cheaters, Shady dealers, and Rude to you!!
I spent an hour yesterday between Microcenter and Circuit City comparing prices of laptops and cameras. I came to the sorry conclusion that there’s not much to differenciate them. Best Buy is about the same price range. They’re still cheaper than Irish prices though! Especially in the digital camera market. I saw so many laptops [...]
Hopefully I can make it to the Chicago SocialLUG tomorrow. It’s on in the Goose Island pub in Clyburn at 6pm.
Here’s the first few pics. They’re all drastically cut down to fit here! Taken at North Michigan, from the river. The building in the foreground is the Wrigley Building. The background building is the Chicago Tribune Building. It’s famous for it’s unusual architecture! Thanks to Ark/#LUNI for the corrections and additional information. This is the [...]
Last night after work I walked down to Washington/Wells to catch the L home. At the station passengers were turned back by officials and told to go up to Merchandise Mart. No explanation was given as to why. Not being completely familiar with Chicago yet I walked north, following the train line and took a [...]
This opinion piece is so misleading I don’t know where to start! Luckily I don’t have to because a brief thread on LUNI has reasonable answers to this analyst’s questions and asertions. It also seems that the MySQL client libraries are now released under the GPL. This causes a lot of problems for producers of [...]
