Night Train

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Not a bad way to travel!

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Okay, I’ll start studying in a minute. Just wanted to share my good fortune at catching a sweet train to Tokyo. Unlike those nationalized JR cattle cars, on Keikyu, a nice ride us no extra charge. Just catch the right train.
Hint: it will be red.

SQL Triggers

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A fact which seems buried to me is that an after trigger actually does still have access to both the inserted and deleted virtual tables.

So if you have been struggling to re-implement a simple insert, update, or delete because you feel you must use an instead of trigger in order to access the values in inserted or deleted, relax.  You’re doing it wrong.

I can beef this up with some code, and I suppose I will, but the code is not the issue–it’s the concept, and once I learned to rely on the inserted and deleted tables persisting until my trigger itself goes out of scope, my life got much simpler.

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Draft: Of, By, and For: Lincoln vs Obama

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Doing research for my “Three Speeches” paper (which has been expressed  so far in my Marxism of Barack Obama posts), I noticed a defining difference between progressives and conservatives.  The jumping-off point is actually a line from the Gettysburg Address, which at any rate is worth reproducing in whole as often as possible:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of … Continue reading →

Electoral Treason

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As I discuss in my post on Ethical Resistance, the ends are not so much what determines who is a domestic enemy of the Constitution.  Face, it, many people would like to change the Constitution, and that desire is not unconstitutional.  No matter what changes are made, if they are made through valid, Constitutional method, the change is “in bounds”.  If each change withstands scrutiny, and the constitution itself is changed to allow new or different methods, and then those methods are used to effect further change, this is all constitutional.  This is why a defense of the Constitution as it currently stands is critical.  Right now the biggest threat I see to the future of the Republic is the collaborative … Continue reading →

Re-Organized!

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If you are seeing this but expected a specific article, you probably followed an old link.  Things have changed.  Everything is still here–none of the content has changed, not one tiddle or jot.  The URLs are all new, however, so that external links (FaceBook, other blogs, Google, and so forth) now take you to, er, nowhere.  And so this blog finds you and brings you to the front page, so that if you like, you can use one of the many navigation tools (category listings, popular posts, hot topics, even a search box hiding upper-right in the green) to find what you came here for.  Personally, I recommend grabbing a category from the wordcloud on the top of the right-hand column, and diving in.

Thank you!

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Sometimes, Conservative Nostalgia is Progressivism

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Right down to the de-industrializing impulse that winds up massacring intellectuals and reducing millions to the enslaved subsistence farmers, too busy starving to fight back.  A friend of mine, who is a good guy and a committed social and fiscal conservative, posted the following, for which I took him to task.  I do not doubt his commitment or his intents, but he is whistling past the grave here, revealing a potentially “fatal” logic bomb.  I have replicated the whole thing below.

My conservative friend:

Thought for the day: Two hundred years ago, an American spent most of his day WORKING to hunt, farm and anything else that provided the basics of food, shelter and clothing to survive. They were, of necessity, self-reliant and independent so it’s no wonder … Continue reading →

O Glorious Workaround!

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This blog seems to be up and running again!  Links are working!  Everything is working.

One of the valuable things I am taking from ITIL training is the confidence to STOP tinkering with things.  I have developed a workaround for this issue: category links were not working, and now they are.  Now it has cost me my preferred URL style, but that;s fine.  That;s not my problem, although “problem” is the key word.

In ITIL, Incident Management is exclusively focused on restoring a service, whereas Problem Management is focused on understanding root causes and preventing repeated or similar occurrences through permanent changes (or deciding that the changes are not worth it).

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Shopping Cart Attacker Only 12–What To Do?

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There’s a young person whose future is at stake here.  Which is why this lawyer is 180 degrees of wrong on this:

One of the two pre-teen boys charged with dropping a shopping cart over a fourth-story railing in New York City — nearly killing a philanthropist who was shopping for underprivileged kids — could be sentenced to as little as probation after pleading guilty to felony assault Friday.

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“Today my client did the responsible thing and [pleaded] guilty,” said his lawyer, Shahabuddeen Ally. “He took ownership of his actions. The goal is to get him back into the community.”

via 12-Year-Old Boy Pleads Guilty To Dropping Shopping Cart Four Stories Onto Woman Below | Fox News.

That community produced in him this complete lack of … Continue reading →

Balanced Bullshit Amendment Fails

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Huzzah!

This bill was a sham anyway. With no caps and nothing more than a simple majority needed to ignore it, it was meaningless. If it had passed, it would have provided no obstacle to running a deficit. This was smoke and mirrors designed to get RINOs off the hook with conservative voters.

It would, however, have provided Democrats with a meaningless scrap of paper to wave around and claim that they therefore need to raise taxes, and we would of course fall for it.
So I’m doubly glad this thing went down in flames.