To be innocent, is to be of clean hands, not in the eyes of the law, or the eyes of the bully, but in the eyes of God.
If your neighbour is a bad man, I can see no justification for you to be punished. The police should take due care when pursuing criminals that your [...]

Here’s my little mystery of the day that took me an hour to figure out:
I have a table called EQUIPMENT with a column called SITE nvarchar(50). For some strange reason the results I’m getting from ADO.net is a string padded to full 50 characters. Now, only nchar(50) does that. I checked with Query Analyzer:
SELECT SITE, [...]

I had to move files around PC and although there are plenty of shareware programs that deletes duplicate files from PC, the best things in the life are free. The Dupinator script - a free program that removes duplicate files from drives, is written in Python.
It was reasonably fast, and does it’s job well. [...]

Ken McCarthy, John Reese and several other marketeers are reporting the phenomenon known as GoogleSlap. This is the GoogleDance of Adwords, where cost-per-click has risen markedly for sites which offer “suboptimal” experience for users. Apparently any attempts at lead-generation now costs $1 per click, vs. $0.20 in the past.

Once in a while, it is gratifying to see how Microsoft’s embrace and extend comes back and bite them in the a***. Take Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, back when MS was defending their Windows OS turf against Netscape’s Browser OS. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to extend the browser to include ActiveX applets. Now there is already a large base of ActiveX components on the Windows platform, so naturally, adding ActiveX components to web browsers would help entrench Microsoft’s dominance on the client side right?

As history has turned out, the answer is a resounding NO.