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Without the Internet, I wouldn’t know what to do with my a*$

I probably could have lived the rest of my life without seeing this product. Without the Internet, and within the confines of the sacred Walmart, I just may have done that. But, no, I’ve seen it and now so must you. So without further ado, I present you Sphincterine by http://mintyass.com/. Believe it or not, this site is worksafe with great content.

Cost: Howard Stern $495,000.
It will cost you a lot less!!!

Let’s not forget the tag line.

It’s stimulating… and refreshing!

And you know what Pucker says!

It tingles!

You’ll note this product is not on my amazon wish list.

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Can’t see the code for all the debugging

So I’m pulling my hair out and pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my code isn’t working. In the process I resolve a fairly significant logic flaw (which is a good thing) but still it doesn’t seem to work and nothing is changing in the results when I finally remember that I put maxrows="10" on the <cfoutput> for troubleshooting.

Long and short that means I couldn’t figure out why anything past the 10th record was not updating and the reason was because I told the code not to update anything past the 10th record.

Thank you for joining me for that moment of Geek Zen.

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Now I am an IT manager!

Sometimes I don’t think. When I setup our home network, I did what most people probably do and set up DHCP which means the router dynamically gives a computer connecting to our network an IP address. This is nice that if someone with a laptop visits or I am working on someone’s computer that all we do is plug it into the network and the machine works on the Internet. Well, for a network of 7 computers that never move, DHCP is a bit of overkill.

Sometimes I like to look at the router logs and see what the kids are looking at on the Internet. Conceptually, their IP addresses could change and I never really know whose traffic I am observing. DHCP simply makes that difficult.

Sometimes I want to yank the Internet from one or more children. With DHCP the easiest thing to do was to walk to the router and pull the cable.

That has all changed! I wised up and set static IP addresses for all the machines. The ending ip number simply corresponds to the year of birth for the primary user of the computer. Now the logs make sense. Now in a couple of seconds I can deny the appropriate computer access to the Internet. Now I’m thinking.