Caught With Cubs Fever
I am not a sports guy. At all. Can't name half the teams in any league. I know three: Bears, Bulls, Cubs. Illinois kid. That's basically required.
The Green Mile
Awesome movie with Tom Hanks, Michael Duncan Clarke, Barry Pepper, and other greats.
Corporate Indifference
Why is it that corporations get so nasty when the economy goes in the tank? It's understandable that when the going gets tough, hard decisions need to be made. But those decisions should be made in an honorable fashion. Unfortunately, however, it seems that some companies can't take this high road approach. A very good example of this has recently come to my attention. Someone I know works for a company that is "down-sizing". I have a problem with the very term "down-sizing" but that is a different commentary. The problem here is that a lot of existing jobs are being merged into one. So if you have two management positions A and B, soon there will be only one position C, which is basically A + B. In the case of this company, they have decided to eliminate A and B and have the individuals in those positions "interview" for the new position C.
Executive Orders
This is the best of the Jack Ryan books, in my opinion. The Bear and the Dragon was written after this one but this is still the best. A very compelling and realistic plot. Just like the plot in Debt of Honor was carried out on September 11th, I fully expect that there is some terrorist group out there looking to enact the plot in this novel. Scary stuff but written with genius.
Clear and Present Danger
Yeah they made this one into a movie. Still better in print though. Way better.
Bookmarks
This is a collection of articles on the Internet related to various technologies and areas of interest. Every effort is made to ensure these links are up to date ( I refer to these articles often! ) but there is no guarantee that the sites they reside on will keep the links constant.
Finding Prime Numbers with C#
This class, PrimeFinder, has two methods. The Find method takes the piMax parameter and finds all prime numbers between 0 and piMax. The Print method dumps the list of prime numbers from piStart to piMax, for example, between 1,000 and 100,000. With the int type, this class works well for primes up to approximately 14,000,000.
Manually Removing a Vignette Installation
If you've got one or more CDS or OMS machines installed and the CMS has been removed, going into Add / Remove Programs and trying to uninstall Vignette will fail. You'll get a message that Vignette must be “unconfigured” first. Problem is, without the CMS running, nothing can be removed in the Platform Manager. So the whole installation has to come out manually.