Married
I got married yesterday, and now I'm the happiest fag this side of the sun.
Link 64-bit SQL Server 2005 to 32-bit SQL Server 2000
For those of you battling with a 64-bit SQL Server 2005 Server linking to 32-bit SQL Server 2000 Servers, here's a handy solution. This problem has been plaguing us for a while now, and today I made it work.
ncane.com Analysis
According to the Google Analytics boys and girls, I've got almost every single country covered on my hit list for http://ncane.com, my short URL generator.
*hack*
I'm migrating web hosts soon. Once I've sorted out the virtual domain story with qmail, I'll switch over. Hopefully nothing will be lost in the transfer. I plan to complete this during the month of August.
150 days of madness
Picture it: Sandton, 2007. The launch of a 150-day plan to migrate a set of disparate systems into a fully integrated hybrid data warehouse system running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and associated plugins. Some of us (including me) are a little bewildered by the prospect, especially considering the volume of data and applications that need to migrate in this short period of time.
Eleven people are obliviots
One article, one month, TEN ELEVENTY Tomcruises in one go. I must be in heaven. Here they are in article order:
The story of the lonely hard drive
High on a hill desk stood a lonely goatherd hard drive … *insert yodelling here*
The Empire strikes back
Microsoft last week said that Linux and various other open source goodies infringe on a number of patents they happen to own. Novell users are exempt from this. Red Hat isn't. Huh?
Where’d you come from, Cotten Eye Joe?
Yeehaw! Them thar Rednex be for sale, for $1.5m. Check out the related link. If you do buy them, please let them know I referred you.
Canadian Bears
My quote of the week goes to the Weekly Newsletter of thebiglotto.com: