I like to believe a priori that in every oppressive situation there exists a way to apply pressure which completely redirects it and ends up resulting in a positive outcome, hopefully for everyone involved. IS it really true? Obviously I can’t know that, but, I think so. I’ve decided to make the effort to change[...]
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The Cult of Willful Ignorance“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov This article on Snopes makes me shudder. I think that there should be a law prohibiting an educator from poisoning[...]
I’m about to embark on a journey into TDD … wish me luck! I’ll write an article about it later.
Apparently, there is a name for my specific memory condition. It’s called “retentive memory”. For awhile I thought I had another memory condition, but after further research retentive memory describes my recollection ability perfectly. I think it’s super cool that there’s a name for it, that seems to have validated the fact that I have[...]
I am in the process of switching my application from using hardcoded strings for connections and queue names to using the CloudConfigurationManger. You’d think that this should be a pretty simple task, right? string foo = “connectionstring”; to string foo = CloudConfigManager.GetSetting(“connectionstring”); is all you’d think should be needed, or at least that’s what I’d[...]
I have all of the articles I wanted to port done! Whew! Now I need to get my art posted. 
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein. This is something that people forget when we talk about military force. If any country or person uses weapons of mass destruction like the US used against Japan ever[...]
I like to believe a priori that in every oppressive situation there exists a way to apply pressure which completely redirects it and ends up resulting in a positive outcome, hopefully for everyone involved. IS it really true? Obviously I can’t know that, but, I think so. I’ve decided to make the effort to change[...]
I changed the wings around, I like these better. I am using this for my background image on my desktop!
This is supposed to be a hopeful message …. Through the Cross, we Conquor, accompanied by the image of a futuristic city. We’re going to make it, in spite of the religious extremists!
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov This article on Snopes makes me shudder. I think that there should be a law prohibiting an educator from poisoning[...]
I’m about to embark on a journey into TDD … wish me luck! I’ll write an article about it later.
Apparently, there is a name for my specific memory condition. It’s called “retentive memory”. For awhile I thought I had another memory condition, but after further research retentive memory describes my recollection ability perfectly. I think it’s super cool that there’s a name for it, that seems to have validated the fact that I have[...]
I am in the process of switching my application from using hardcoded strings for connections and queue names to using the CloudConfigurationManger. You’d think that this should be a pretty simple task, right? string foo = “connectionstring”; to string foo = CloudConfigManager.GetSetting(“connectionstring”); is all you’d think should be needed, or at least that’s what I’d[...]
I have all of the articles I wanted to port done! Whew! Now I need to get my art posted.
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein. This is something that people forget when we talk about military force. If any country or person uses weapons of mass destruction like the US used against Japan ever[...]
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