Archive for September, 2004

Division of Labor

Monday, September 20th, 2004

When you create common functions, it’s important to make sure any wrapped queries do one thing at a time.
Today I was working on a function I originally wrote that queried something based on a primary key and returned related data for 1…..n records.. It was then modified by someone else so that it had […]

The Soldiering Life

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

Ambling madly all over the town
The call to arms you likened to a whisper
I likened to a radio
You were a brick bat, a bowery tuff, so rough
They called you from a cartoon
Pulled out of your pantaloons
But You
My brother in arms
I’d rather I’d lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm
But You
My bombazine doll
The bullets may […]

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost