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"Murphy was an optimist!"

Listening to constructive criticism July 26, 2007 8:21 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Communications, Daily Life, Technology
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Yesterday I was told "If you smoked as much as you twitter you’d look 92." Perhaps I should slow down a bit.

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Of Grasshoppers July 26, 2007 8:01 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Of Being Dad, Of Grasshoppers, Philosophy
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Student: Being a father is a guaranteed way to regularly feel like a cad.
Master: Being a father is a guaranteed way to regularly feel like a superhero.

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GW Needs to See Sicko July 26, 2007 4:46 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Health, Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States
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Democratic lawmakers in Washington say they’re drafting a health care reform bill that would expand coverage for low-income kids. President Bush says he’ll veto any such legislation, warning that it would lead the nation "down the path to government-run health care for every American."
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What’s particularly galling about Bush’s position is that it’s coming from a man who just underwent a colonoscopy performed at the taxpayer-funded, state-of-the-art medical facility at Camp David by an elite team of doctors from the taxpayer-funded National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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Tech Issue of the Day July 26, 2007 1:37 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : ColdFusion, Daily Life, MySQL, Programming, Technology
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Today’s terribly frustrating error causing a long delay in a short process is:

Parameter index out of range (1 > number of parameters, which is 0).

It is the result of this simple insert:

<cfquery name="createrole" datasource="#application.gDataSrc#">
    INSERT INTO #application.projectidentifier#_theroletable {
       fooASInt,
       barAsInt
    } VALUES {
       <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER" value="#fooAsIntValue#">,
       104
    }
</cfquery>

UPDATE: Whoops. I see the typo! There is a big difference between {} and (). Should have been:

<cfquery name="createrole" datasource="#application.gDataSrc#">
    INSERT INTO #application.projectidentifier#_theroletable (
       fooASInt,
       barAsInt
    ) VALUES (
       <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER" value="#fooAsIntValue#">,
       104
    )
</cfquery>

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Job Op Pays $240,000 per year July 26, 2007 11:07 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : AJAX, Programming, Touchy Subjects, Travel, War
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If you are a web developer (like me) and know AJAX, then you can get a job paying $240,000 per year.

Training on the application software will begin prior to deployment and will take place in Virginia. Deployment will be period of 6-12 months. A Department of Defense secret clearance within last 24 months. [Source]

Tempting?

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