Another example of tax hypocrisy: Goldman Sachs (a festering sore if ever there were one) avoids paying tax that Goldman Sachs CEO wants "the wealthiest" to pay. I suppose Lloyd Blankfein ran out of words in his op-ed piece to note that he supports everybody else's taxes going up, but not his.
A Short Run Of Security Notes
Only a couple this time. Several states have made it illegal for an employer to ask for social media usernames and passwords as part of the terms of employment. I'm of two minds here. This isn't necessarily bad, but I just don't think it's really necessary. This sounds like it could be a pretty bad GPS vulnerability.…
Parentheses Around Joins
This is something that I just learned about recently. Here's the scenario: we have four tables. A User has separate OAuth authorization types (for example, Facebook, Google, and Twitter), which we track through the UserAuthorization table. Finally, each user has a number of items that they have to offer, but not all items need to…
Introducing the next ex-head coach of the Cleveland Browns…
Pro Football Talk gets the official hat tip since I read it there first. FO's article was singularly unenthusiastic. I love the first comment, which sums this up succinctly: "Well, that's somebody I guess." Yes, Cleveland Browns fans, we can confidently assert that a live human being is coaching the Cleveland Browns, something only 31…
Sadly, Nobody Checked For Crossed Fingers Behind His Back
John Boehner swears off secret deals. This made sense to me before; I don't know why, with a history of failure, Boehner believed that this time, secret deals could work. Hopefully he has actually learned his lesson, given that he remains by default the most responsible governmental leader.
BBWAA = Sanctimonious assholes
Nobody got elected. Rob Neyer has a great break down. Deadspin has a fun little article on relationships among votes for players. Jonah Keri has some interesting thoughts as well. Even Bill Livingston, who normally writes like a moron, thinks people are dumb for ignoring steroid era stars. Here's what baffles me. Five years ago, when some…
Goodbye, Expression Web
Microsoft is killing Expression Web. I never really used the tool all that much, although I installed it on each work machine and at home for practice. The problem I had is that it's a tool geared toward designers rather than developers. Of course, for designers, that's not a problem. The problem for designers is…
EPA Human Experimentation
This is disturbing, if true. The "if true" part is extremely important here. One interesting point is that whichever way it goes, the EPA loses. If it turns out that particulate matter is as dangerous as the EPA has claimed, they're knowingly subjecting experimenters to deadly poisons with absolutely no benefit (as their informed consent…
Sign of the gaming apocalypse?
I sign into Gamer's Gate to install Master of Orion II (BTW, you can get MOO I and I for $2.98; I can't stress enough how great a deal that is. Graphically, MOO looks 20 years old (which it is), but it's pretty awesome all the same) and decide to check up on a game…
Odysseus The Jerk
I just finished reading the Iliad and the Odyssey. I've been reading them in small chunks during lunch at work. The single most surprising thing, given my prior knowledge of the two works from high school, was just how much of a jerk Odysseus was. This is all going from memory, so I've probably forgotten…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 