Been Busy up in Heah!

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Man, I’m tired.  I’ve been clipping along at work, back to wa-a-ay long days on a project I like a lot, and whacked a test on Tuesday.  Only missed one question on the ITIL V3 Foundation exam.  I resisted the urge to stomp and glower while muttering and swearing about having missed a question, as the other guy finished and failed, and the third guy was visibly agitated as he kept plugging away.  So I’m good for ITIL something or other.  Thanks Knikki!

I also took the ITIL Service Operations class offered by HP a few weeks ago, and have the test for that coming up soon.  The place I work is implementing improvements along the ITIL lines, and running us through these courses.  So it feels darned … Continue reading →

Decimate the Federal Workforce!

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The Federal government’s role is not to provide jobs, but to perform only those duties enumerated in the Constitution.  It is obscene for a organization with an IRS, a bevy of regulatory powers, and a military, to put itself in competition with the private sector which it is supposed to protect.

Thought experiment:  If every ten civilian Federal workers were required to vote one of their number off the gravy train and divide his former duties among the remaining nine, wouldn’t they select the most useless?

The word “decimate” means literally to kill every tenth member of your organization.  Well, all we’re talking about here is jobs, but the selection method for a decimation is just as valid now as it was back when the Romans did it.

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The End of the Republic

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First they came for Reagan’s Legacy,
and I didn’t speak out because that’s in the past.
Then they came for Sarah Palin,
and I didn’t speak out because she wasn’t running anyway.
Then they came for Herman Cain,
and I didn’t speak out because he was not perfect.
Then they came for the RINO who wound up as the nominee,
And he went down in flames along with the House majority.
The End.

No Longer a Slave | Contagious Transformation

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From time to time I meet a person who makes me think that more of that person is exactly what this world needs. Stacy Swimp is one of those rare and heartening finds. Please meet a man with whom I am proud to associate in various online Tea Party settings.

I am a proud American who just so happens to be of African descent (I am the great, great, great, great grandson of Peter Adams, who was an African Slave on a South Carolina plantation). I am a black man who does indeed embrace the absolute best of the values of my ancestors and I have learned from the mistakes as well.

I have made up my mind wherever I go, I shall go as a man and … Continue reading →

SQL Tip of the Day

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COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT

This is a work-around, and a dangerous one, but it works in a pinch. If you are getting collation errors such as “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation” bubbling up from SQL Server through your application, you are likely trying to JOIN two datasets of incompatible collations.

The quick and dirty workaround is to COLLATE on the fly just as you would CAST a variable for a read but not a write. So you’ll do it in a SELECT statement, which I am happy to report works just fine.

Sample problem:

SELECT Trusty.Age, Shifty.Height FROM MyGoodDataSource AS Trusty INNER JOIN SketchyDataSource AS Shifty ON Trusty.LastName = Shifty.LastName

ERROR! “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”

So we’re going to CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THE … Continue reading →

No Time

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Things I do not have time to write about:

Barack Obama is a domestic enemy of the Constitution

[pullquote]We we do not oppose our enemies and we do not support our allies[/pullquote]He is dismantling our defenses, economy, civil society, and rule of law. Contracts are changed by fiat, private companies are ordered to shift assets to do what Congress refuses to authorize, laws great and small are not upheld or defended. Immigration checks of transport hubs are shut down from coast to coast, we just surrendered in Iraq and will shortly in Afghanistan, we put al-Qaeda in power in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. We we do not oppose our enemies and we do not support our allies, who must now make accommodations with our enemies … Continue reading →

Busy

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I have been crazy busy at work, staying late, going in early, and not doing much else. It’s nice to have a challenging, rewarding job, especially when the fun/futility quotient is better than one.
The regularly scheduled substandard blog posts will resume in good time.
Meanwhile, here’s a giant asian hornet eating a mere wasp. I could actually hear the smaller insect’s head being chomped to bits by the orange killing machine.
Video to follow posted.

Bad Cop on Streets, Good Cop in White House

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This is the post I had hoped not to publish. I wrote this doom & gloom post at the same time I wrote this far more sanguine post regarding the “Occupants”, around this point:

These are not anti-globalization hooligans upset about where their coffee is harvested.  These are our fellow Americans ruined by our Marxist indoctrination system of culture and education, embittered by pre-ordained foreclosures of too-good-to-be-true loans that the banks made at the point of the government’s guns, and whipped into a teeming mass by the Provocateur-in-Chief.

Now is the time to talk our fellow Americans down from the ledge.

We have failed to do this, or the Marxist organizers have simply beat us.  Make no mistake, we are … Continue reading →

Occupy Wall Street Pwned by Bums

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Sounds like the Marxist morons haven’t quite found in their hearts the convictions they advertise:

“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.

via Occupy Wall Street kitchen slowdown targets squatters – NYPOST.com.

Just a moment.  What gives any of these fools the right to that food?  Why should the food (which none of them grew) be considered “theirs”?  And so what if their work goes unappreciated?  Are they suggesting that the benefit of their labor should be directed as … Continue reading →