, somehow special, somehow
set apart from common animals, in that there is more meaning to our lives
than eat, sleep, procreate and die.
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My understanding is that these Vaio's are rebranded - either Dell's or HP's - can't remember. Either way you can't really go wrong.
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of boosting our
military was shot down for that very reason.
The world is weird. Give me the matrix.
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Congratulations!!! But you mean Be Back MUCH Later
Hang in there bud, it's wild ride, but the best one of your life. Support
your wife with all your heart.
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Hey Y'all,
Just checking in to see who else is working today
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Point well taken ;-)
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Question 2
Lotus Notes Email. How do I turn the damn new mail notification off?
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Okay, I figured out the answer to the Lotus Notes question.
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reducing strategies (exercise, yoga, meditation, etc.) and consult a
doctor just in case. Although I would suggest not jumping on medication
for it right off the bat. Believe it or not, good chiropractic care can
really help with this. At least that's been my experience.
Guy McDowell
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soreness that it helped
reduce my stress levels. I'll take it either way!!!
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Hey Everybody!
Well, I've been on again, off again for quite awhile. But now I havea new
full-time gig back in the ColdFusion world. Yay!!! That's like
hitting the lottery here in Canada.
Anyway, just thought I'd say hi. um, hi. There.
~Guy
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I believe the most accurate way to determine Max HR is the Karvonen method. This is the method I always used as a personal trainer. Trying to determine it by actually pushing to the point of failure is not advisable, even for the most advanced athlete. That's like drinking hard to see when alcohol
Hi Paul,
That is a dilemma. The process of declawing is not totally humane. They chop the phlange off at the first knuckle. In older cats this can result in disabling the leg. At least, this is what I've heard. best to talk to your vet about it.
But then again, it is more humane than having a
Hi All,
I'm Guy...you may remember me from such memorable posts as What the hell am I doing? or What does iterate mean again? or how about that classic Dammit stop throwing muffins!
Anywho...I may be setting up to jump in the CF ring again after a lengthy absence filled with manual labour and
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Okay,so here's one good reason to like Canada. I guess I'll stay for a little while. ;-)
But seriously, we also pay a surtax on all recordable media (recordable tapes, cdc's, dvd's) that is intended to be divyed up amongst producers of music and other copy-able stuff (yes that's the legal term,
Of course the .NET community does not have as much fun. They spend too much time writing mundane code.
Seriously though, I'm thinking of picking up .NET as well for the work. Common sense isn't all that common.
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I'm quite fond of mini-vans. Superdad, that's me. Something with the whole entertainment system built-in, but the seats come out nice and easy so I can get wood and crap. (That sounds bad)
However my wife is very fond of the Pontiac Vibe. And I guess if I had the money, one of those Dodge Ram's
Congrats!
We went and visited the RCMP stables on the weekend. It reignited my wife's desire for a ranch. She was almost (literally) born in the saddle.
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Everyone gets that PITA is an acronym for Pain In The A$$ right? Just checking. I used to hear it called the Peter Principle too, but I didn't get the Peter reference. I figured PITA was better because it's easier to promote someone out of somewhere than to fire them.
Dana, the issue wasn't that
I'm not sure that any thread is really more important than another on this particular list. Maybe on this list have it go by popularity, then recency? Just a thought.
With the more technical forums, again how do you determine importance. I've asked some comparatively dumb-a$$ questions, but to
I don't know a heck of a lot about mp3 players either, but TDK is well known for it's recordable media, so it woul dstand to reason that they would be at least decent in their other products. Maybe not a Sony or Onkyo of the mp3 world, but I think you get my point.
Here's another possible
Okay, so I was venting and over-reacting. Sorry about that. Yeah, Canada isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here...badum ching! Nonetheless I'd still like to try my hand in a country with a different brand of corruption.
Rednecks, oh yeah, we got rednecks...heck we have the
Fresh from monster.com
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=21444987
Public Healthcare Co. Seeks Cold Fusion Gurus
Company: The Boylston Group
Location: US-CA-Los Angeles
Salary/Wage: 51,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD /year
Status: Full Time, Employee
Job Category: Computers, Software
I went through a similar thing on a gov't project. Canada is officially bilingual French/English. We were using URL variables and one of the managers -who was a francophone with an English degree- said that when people are on the French site the variables in the URL must be in French. So that
You know what kills me? A developer here in Canada with - 3 years experience in Coldfusion, Java, _javascript_, SQL Server, excellent communication skills and a bachelors degree. Pluses include Lotus Notes and J2EE. will make about $15 an hour or maybe $35,000/yr - Canadian. That's like $25,000
Hi Hatton,
Just be there for her and love her. If she acts in a way that may seem irrational to you, don't get upset about it. Remember, the fabric of her existence now has a major tear in it. It seems that everybody reacts somewhat differently to loss as well.
I lost my Dad a few months ago. He
32 years in this country. Most of it in rural northern Ontario. I've only seen one live moose, my piss is clearer than the streams (Google the town of Walkerton, Ontario) and mountains are something that destroy the brakes on cars in British Columbia.
yeah, but Guy, isn't it pretty up there? with
Cool, thanks gang. That gives me lots to research.
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Hi Folks,
Found this in my inbox today...
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=21416736
Web Application Developer! Up to 80K!
Company: Remington International
Location: US-CA-Santa Monica
Salary/Wage: 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD /year
Status: Full Time, Employee
Shift: First
I never took CSS very seriously as a design tool until I saw that site you referenced. So stinkin' cool. I feel so at one with the kernel now. ;-)
Seriously, that's cool.
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I've been very happy with Spybot. Just keep it updated.
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Here's another for the jobseekers out there in T-Dot and surrounding areas
Yours truly,
~Guy
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Job Type: Full Time
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA;
Job Category:
Here's another to all my peeps around T-Dot
~Guy
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Hi,
I know there are a fair few musicians on this list, and some of you even do some recording. Well, my wife is a singer/songwriter and we'd like to put some stuff down on a cd for practice and who-knows?
So what's a good app for doing this sort of thing in? I'm working with a 1.1ghz Athlon,
Just goes to show God loves us alleven the dumbasses.
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that goes.
Everyone else is okay? 'Cept Ben's surgery of course, but that sounds like it's a good thing.
Good to be back. It's a little hard shaking off the ring rust.
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Come now Ray, there's no such thing as too geeky only so geeky. ;-)
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I'm not elite - I'm just the Jedi Master. ;)
(I'm thinking of printing up a tee shirt for DevCon with ColdFusion
Jedi Master on it - but that may be a bit _too_ geeky. ;)
-ray
Why not go for some pseudo-CF code like the CF_Caffeine tag thing I had
going? Ben's got the mug on his desk, you can get the pseudo from him.
You're welcome to use it as long as I get a mention somewhere along the
line.
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So, we want to start selling crap at
Did she die in misery or just in miserable surroundings? Some would say
something like labour is a miserable situation, but most mom's are
ecstatic at the time.
It's kind of like people looking out the window, seeing rain and
saying, It's a bad day. Well, yes, weather-wise maybe, but that
I totally agree! Rainy day + tea house + my lovely wife = pure joy!
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Yes, you can do this. It's a matter of having the ACTION attribute of
the form tag set to the overall frameset page. You don't have to specify
what frame the variables are sent to. You pull them into the frame you
want later.
Within the frame where you wish to call the form variables to, just
and always have the header at the top so
the
columns can be identified..
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Yes, you can
Okay, did I miss something in my 8 month absence? When did
Philip and Erika get married?
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What's that I feel? Is it my leg being pulled? ;-)
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On 25 Jul 02, at 10:57, Nick McClure wrote:
Don't forget the open bar. Ben was so drunk he could hardly stand.
He was stumbling around mixing his puns. Kevin and Larry actually got
along.
Pretty cool stuff.
-Original
Well super-belated congrats!
Did you have a cake made of muffins? Kind of like those Krispy
Kreme cakes some folks are getting. That'd be a hoot.
On 25 Jul 02, at 16:54, Philip Arnold - ASP wrote:
Okay, did I miss something in my 8 month absence? When did
Philip and Erika get
I have though and meditated on society's ails for many years. I
have read every religious, philisophical and self-help text available. I
have talked to every human on earth and the dolphins as well. I am
now ready to reveal my solution to all of society's ails.
Get rid of everyone. Including
I used to be a very patient driver with those more aggressive on the
road. Until my wife got pregnant. Nonetheless, I've been able to
increase my calm (What movie was that in - Bonus Points = 100)
Tailgaters get me though. I've only opened the car door once. The
fellow looked at me then
Did anyone read about this in PCGamer?
The US Army is developing its own mil-sim game to distribute for
free as a recruiting tool. Apparently they are using their own
compsci types and contracting some industry big names to do it. If
it ever makes it to release it should be incredible.
What kinds of differences? In sys reqs or in
features/functionality/backward compatibility?
On 24 Jul 02, at 15:08, Bill Wheatley wrote:
Ok guys we're updating to CF5 here finally :) YEA!
And the IT guy doesnt take my word for the differences between Cf4 5
and does anyone have a
Hey Kids! 'Member me?
I thought I'd shaken the muffin addiction but here I am again.
By the way, I have a new minion, Ethan Patrick McDowell, born on
the 4th of July (a month early) at 6 lbs. 13 oz. Ya!
So...what's new?
Guy J. McDowell
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**anticipating backlash from fellow Canucks**
Hey Ben,
I'd be proud if Ethan grows up and emigrates to the U.S. I still
believe that it is the one place on Earth where a person with little
more than dogged persistence can do anything!
I'm writing the White House communications staff to see
In Canada you need a license now for craft from 9-24 feet and
Personal Watercraft. Plus you need to be over 16 yrs. Not much in
the way of compliance or enforcement though.
On 23 Jul 02, at 22:30, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
Beth F wrote:
Why scary? Anybody can drive a bike without a
The way I see it there are very few ways to react to and resolve this
situation. Granted I am but a low-level programmer and have only seen one
war (The Gulf War) from the safety of a Canadian air base. So my thoughts
may be flawed, I accept that.
Before any action is taken, serious
Great for you Todd!! Congrats.
On the question of other technologies and non-tech learning: I'm going for
Java training as soon as I can afford it (in the form of a B.Sc. degree that
uses Java as the primary language for teaching programming.)
I'm also doing my CF certs up to the level of
My wife has actually done just that. One night she was talking in her sleep
about how to properly link pages using relative and absolute paths. Maybe
that's why she's going into HR now. ;)
I also code in my dreams too, but in them I'm usually wearing funny glasses,
bad hair cut, living in
Hey Gel!
Congrats friend! I'm sure you'll prosper and learn in this new position.
As a corollary, I, too, have a new job! YAY! No more whining about working
at a non-profit! I'll be in Toronto, ON Canada now at a real
development/consulting/training company. My goodness, I'll actually get
Hmmm, I developed a content management system. A simple one, but cool
nonetheless. I did this on my own time, with my own resources. Then I saw a
need for it at my current employer's and implemented it into our websites.
Works great! However, I am leaving here soon.
I don't mind leaving the
At my present job (I start a new one on Aug 13 YES!!!) they decided to
implement employee monitoring software. I found out about it accidently and
talked to my supervisor about it providing references to similar situations
where the employers encountered very real problems. People working
Hi,
To follow up on the topic of starting your own country. I thought I'd use
the subject line above, because of recent events and such. Having a list
talk about starting your own country and the previous touchy subject could
really get us labelled as subversives. Although I do believe that a
What does this mean? Microsoft is going to drop Java from the XP OS. You can
have Java added into the XP OS later by going to the Microsoft site and
downloading it. But as we all know finding anything at the MS Site is nigh
impossible.
We know that if the average user has to download
Ben , nope, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
FLASH INTRO like quicken books. If she shops around real hard, she might be
able to get it as low as $1500. I once did something about the same size for
$2000. Canadian dollars that is...
Guy
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Your general intelligence score is: 139
Pattern Recognition75%
Computation63%
Logic75%
Spatial Skills63%
Processing Speed96%
Friends don't let friends test before coffee..
Guy
~~
Structure your
To discuss one's spirituality without referring to the basis for
it negates any possibility of supporting one's beliefs. It'd be
like an Islam saying, Let's talk religion, but we're only going
to refer to the Koran (It is the Koran right? I'm not sure.)
So the NT (as well as the texts of anyone
Of course I would trust God to save me; He already has. Damage to
my body is not terribly fortunate, I agree. However, should it
happen it happens. I am more concerned with my soul staying
intact. Then, of course, there is divine healing to consider.
Should I be maliciously injured, I have faith
Thanks Y'all,
(Gee that sounds funny coming from a Canuck.) Anyway, the
decision is made and the deed is done. I gave my supervisor a
memo stating that I am looking at other options and that,
although I love the work that this organization does, it is
apparent that it is no longer meeting my
Hello All,
I'm looking for some of that great wisdom that occasionally flies
around here. Not muffins. Although muffins are always welcome.
Blueberry, please.
Anyway. I'm hunting for a new job. Here's the problem. I feel
morally obligated to let my employer know that I am looking so
that he can
Sometimes I do a sort of 'flowcharting' approach, especially if
it's an application like forms. Sometimes I do story boarding,
especially if it's entertainment based like a Flash app.
Sometimes I do a combination of the two. But most often I have to
wing it because the site launch date has been
Beer:
Canadian Good, American not as good.
I like almost every Canadian Beer, being Canadian. If you haven't
had a lot of 'worldly' beers start with Molson Canadian, move to
Molson Export or Labatt's 50, then you're ready for some more
exotic Canadian beers like Alexander Keith's or Moosehead
This one is kind of cool because it compares you to movie or tv
characters. Apparently I am like Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, Ben
Kingsley's Ghandi or Sally Fields' Norma Rae. That is, an
activist.
http://personality.familywonder.com/fwperson
Guy
Hmm, I like Arnold and Franco. As in Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbo (His less known
bodybuilding sidekick who also won the Mr. Olympia and
has been in most of Arnold's movies, is a chiropractor
and the most famous movie star in Sardinia) Kind of a
Strong Survive thing. But other than
Hi Jennifer,
Yes, I'm glad that you are still around. You give a
good challenge when you get on a tear. Always makes me
think. Sorry to hear about your 50% not-your-boyfriend.
Or maybe we should rejoice. I dunno. I'm not a big fan
of non-committers. You choose. In any event, muffins of
Okay...who here is a CF developer that gets paid to do
what they do?
*everyone raises hands, hoofs and paws*
Okay, so we are professionals then. Alright, when we
get together, do we discuss stuff of a personal nature
that occasionally relates to our professional lives or
actual code?
*everyone
Jennifer,
I'm really sorry that what I said offended you. It was
intended to be funny and flippant. Unfortunately that
sort of humour always offends someone.
However, to say that anything that offends anyone is
bad just isn't feasible in reality. As twisted as it
may seem there are those that
I've come to the realization that I can be a big
downer.
Sure my circumstances aren't what I want, but they
aren't as bad as they could be either. I eat, I sleep,
I wear a different shirt every day. My wife loves me
and I love her. Usually if I want to buy a chocolate
bar, I can.
I contribute
Apparently there is an engineer in Vancouver or
Victoria BC that has developed a hydrogen engine for
motor vehicles and they ARE being used on city buses
out there., The engine breaks the bond in the H2O
molecule, burns the Hydrogen and the waste product
isH2O. Too cool or what? But
I'm wondering if you could use the 'Sounds Like' SQL
(can't remember the EXACT term) function to parse input
on the company name and then replace it with the proper
spelling as it is inserted into the table.
cfoutput
cfquery
SELECT Company
FROM Table
WHERE #Form.Company# SoundsLike Table.Company
Finally as for Guy's assertion that Canada is
spending billions on gun
control, I'd love to know where he got that
statistic. I looked at the last
budget put forth by Chretien's government, and there
was actually less real
spending on the police and customs than was spent
before the most recent
Okay, so awhile back I asked if it was okay to e-mail
prospective employers from your current work. I got a
about a 50/50 yes/no answer.
I hated the idea of using an @hotmail type of address
to contact these people, so I built my own web-based
e-mail system.
That way I can use my
I knew someone would pick up on this...
I would never knowingly take someone's life in self
defense or defense of my family for a couple reasons.
First, I can usually restrain someone with non-lethal
force.(Just about the only bonus of being 5'10 and 260
pounds) The second reason is of a
Gel, I agree with everything you said except this;
These children were TAUGHT to shoot a gun by their
parents/relatives in the
case of the Columbine kids.
They were hunters..weren't they?
That is where they learnt to handle guns.
Hunting does teach a person how to handle guns. And, if
it is
You folks are good folk, wise folk. (Strange folk!) So
I am asking for your wisdom on my professional
development.
It has become PAINFULLY clear that I must abdicate my
throne as O.F.A.H. webmaster and get into the real web
developing world.
But I'm a little disconnected.
I've been webmaster
Maybe I should get off digest-mode
US WWII - Allies...means more than one country,
therefore the 'Allies' won together. Teamwork my dear
Yankee friends.
(And then 20 years later everyone wanted BMW's VW's
Mercedes so who really won?) Check out the battle of
Ypres as well.
This thread could
Hi Ben, good to hear about the mug. Hopefully I'll have
some time to do an update on how that venture is going
(at last check I sold 24 mugs) I've got a fair few more
ideas that need developing for mug designs.
Canuck is not a derogatory term unless it is preceded
by 'dumb' or 'stupid' or other
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