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I love Twitter and I hate Twitter. I can choose to make Twitter what I want it to be. I love to follow people that are interesting and say random shit like Wil Wheaton @Wilw (Wil, please notice I spelled your name correctly) is a good example. His number one rule, “Don’t be a Dick!” Whats not to love about that. This is the kinda thing I like about Twitter. Random thoughts that inspire me to either stop being a dick, or ramp it up depending on my mood. 

My Daily Rant today about the Vanity Fair article America’sTweethearts. I could choose to rant about the condescending an insulting way talented people on Twitter were portrayed. However lots of excellent articles have been written by talented individuals concerning what was wrong with this thing. Example from Action Flick Chick @actionchick her take on the Vanity Fair Article  Vanity Fair Unfair to Twitter?

No I want to rant about the Tweetheart term. This is what I hate most about twitter. The TW thing, things like Tweethearts, Tweeple, Tweeps, and all the cutesy homages to the TWitter name itselsf. Frankly I just don’t give a !#$*. Get over yourself Twitter.  TWing is just not what I want to my Twitter to be. If you do fine. I won’t be following you anyway. Might need a shot of Insulin to contact your Tweets. “I will have my Twevenge”

In a nuclear explosion or other extreme release of pent up energy (such as rage) the thermal radiation will travel in straight line from the originating fireball so any opaque object in it’s path will produce a protective shadow on a flat surface behind the object. So what? I may not have nuke, but I have that much pent up rage at Microsoft.
 
You know Microsoft, the software giant which never fails to meet our expectations of quality concerning their products. Once again a promising product has been so badly rendered as to make it nuclear rage level frustrating to use and thus limiting it potential.
 
Today’s example is SSIS 2005 SQL Server Integration Services. Typical Microsoft great potential, but poor implementation. Like Windows Vesta this thing was rolled before it was ready.If you attempt  to wander off the pretty interface reservation. You are faced with a coding nightmare of EPIC proportions. You frequently have to use VB.Net, VBA, VB Script, or C#. All in the same module. DAMN! What was the reasoning behind that other than Microsoft SOP (Get-R-Out the door before conversion to new product is complete).  Grab the BUCKS baby!
 
Try to do something simple like set a variable through code. You should have a strait forward process, not some software version of a Jet Li movie. Requiring jumping through hoops, across roofs, multiple screens, and Zen like concentration.
 
I still haven’t accomplished something simple that in VBA takes a couple lines.  I guess I knock it out eventually. Just really pisses me off,  REALLY, REALLY BAD!
 
Thank goodness for coding support sources like Journey – The Essential Journey. Keeps me form throwing a vein in the GeekFossil noggin, not to mention keeps thoughts of rendering a nuclear shadow of Microsoft on some wall in Seattle at bay!n Seattle at bay!

This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an
actual emergency you would have been instructed to bend over and kiss
your ass goodbye.

One of the down sides to Work at Home. Our new Christmas puppy (Izzy Boo) is teething. She chewed the VGA monitor cable in half for my Work PC. Being the cheap SOB I am, I didn’t want to buy a new one. I had an extra DVI cable that came with my new 22′ Samsung.  So I think hey, I’ll just put one of the older high end DVI video cards I have laying in my desk drawer in this POS and that will fix the issue.

Wrong. Work PC’s always run like 10 generations behind anything you think is acceptable. So naturally none of the video cards I had would fit the video slots in that crappy MB. Fortunately I took the KBM switch off the old PC I run as a server. It had one of the correct VGA cables for the work POS on it. I won’t really miss having an 2000 server running anyway. Just mostly burning power and increasing my Carbon Footprint (Yeah! I guess now I’ll have to find another way to piss off  Al Gore- Manbearpig)

At least now I won’t have to VPN remote into the Desktop at work (Which is an even older slower POS)

So since I owned this domain I figured I needed to put something on it. I don’t want it to be a full time job though. So this is the results. I may or may not keep it up to date. Twitter take up most my time, but i’ll try. Sometimes you just need more that 140 characters!

After many years of coding and having to learn new code, there comes a time when you say its just not that big a deal to do. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel here. So I adopted the philosophy of my friend Greg, SWIPE (Steal With Ingerity and Pride Everywhere). So all I have to do is hack the result into shape. Saves oodles of time. Plus I no longer have anything to prove. I have forgotten more code and languages than most younger code monkeys know. Also I don’t want to spend all my free time doing the same thing I do everyday during the week or do I?

That is the downside of doing something that you love so much. The line between work and play gets really blurred. You have a hard time determining the difference between work and play. The only time that the line comes back around into sharper clarity is when I have to pay bills. Generally it is all play for me. I just get paid to do it. Woot!