Archive for June, 2006

Ehren the Brave

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

My cousin Lt. Ehren Watada is facing a rough road ahead as he sacrifices himself in an effort to wake up the United States government and the silent majority of this nation.
Ehren is a brave man to choose this path when so many before him could have but didn’t. Most people our age are […]

Enum to Int Conversion in MySQL

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Thought I’d post this since it was interesting. If you convert an enum to an int (don’t ask) be aware of the following conversion:

mysql> create table foo ( bar enum(’0′,’1′) not null default ‘0′ );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> insert into foo values(’0′);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> insert into foo […]

Drugs Rule

Monday, June 12th, 2006

If you don’t live with me, you wouldn’t know that I’ve been pretty messed up lately by allergies. This year has been a particularly bad year, and I’ve been pretty much taken out by hay fever and sinus problems.
So I broke down and went to an allergist and they put me on:

prednisone
allegra-d
patanol
mometasone

And I have […]