Comments for Qrystal Illusions

Comment on IE7 and border-bottom bug by Kamen

Kamen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:23 +0000

Hey.. thanks for that. This bug took me like few hours ti figure out!

Comment on Holy Christ, Dan Fabulich by Dan Fabulich

Dan Fabulich — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:49:13 +0000

Thanks! That experience was quite painful, and so it’s really gratifying to see this blog post reminding me that it was worth it. Maybe. :-)

Comment on Cali Chronicles: Day Four by Marc

Marc — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:04:29 +0000

You didn’t mention the crazy taxi ride home ;-)

Comment on Alien Workers by Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:59:26 +0000

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10025.html

however,

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=96422,00.html

There’s also the issue of verifying the right to work, which is now through CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services) at DHS (Dept of Homeland Security). See http://www.uscis.gov.

Comment on My First Comic! by Xaxio

Xaxio — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:14:12 +0000

I’m not really sure who Dave is…but thanks!

Comment on My First Comic! by tony

tony — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:50:46 +0000

hey dave cool cartoon . keep up the great work

Comment on New Site Design by Xaxio

Xaxio — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:02:48 +0000

New Design Test Comment

Comment on Wireless of the World by Brett

Brett — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:17:30 +0000

I need to talk to either of you, preferrably the former employee. I was just ripped off by this company. I went in to have a screen replaced on my Blackberry and the phone wasn’t working when I got it back. He refuses to fix it now. I need to know how this unethical guy works. Please e-mail me so we can talk. Thanks…

Comment on It’s my birthday!! :) by Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:14:07 +0000

Happy Birthday!

PS: Jessica says hi!

Comment on So hard to find a good background… by Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:12:30 +0000

You can use many colorful pictures if you use a photo editor program and brighten them up so they washout.

Comment on It’s my birthday!! :) by Don "Gio"

Don "Gio" — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:59:44 +0000

Hmm. Happy Birthday.

Comment on It’s my birthday!! :) by Ulo

Ulo — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:55:50 +0000

Esperanto IS a real language. It is a constructed language.

See:
http://www.2-2.se
http://www.esperanto.net

Comment on Multivalue Integrity by loveOcean

loveOcean — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:45:48 +0000

That Marc guy is pretty smart!

Comment on Multivalue Integrity by Marc

Marc — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:12:34 +0000

Some commercial relational databases (Sybase, Oracle) allow you to associate SQL code in the database as stored procedures and triggers. Triggers “fire” on insert, update, or delete of data and can be used to enforce data integrity rules. “Newer” iterations of ANSI SQL include standard SQL syntax for specify data integrity rules (i.e., primary keys, foreign key references). Triggers can enforce non-relational-ish rules, like data formats, data ranges, or data integrity rules which are more complex than foreign key references (i.e., involving joins or aggregation).

Whether it’s better to enforce the data integrity rules in the database engine or in the client software is a debatable point and depends, in part, on the application.

In my experience, people can get hung up on the solutions they know – you know the old adage, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. I think we’re all like that. I mean, the ideas we come up with are the end result of what we know and how we combine what we know to come up with something new and different. The trap to avoid is getting smug and assuming there’s nothing else important to learn, being to arrogant to consider an idea from a co-worker, or to lazy to be curious.

Comment on My outlook on life by Xaxio

Xaxio — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:23:55 +0000

If I were a manager myself, I could easily deny their request (I think). On the other hand, because the article describes me fairly well:

1) I would understand the difference between regular employees and programmer employees and be generally emotionless toward the regular employees (I’m guessing at that one, I don’t know for sure, but I don’t care because…)

2) I would never be in a management position and have to make that kind of decision in the first place, it’s not what I want. Like it says, I *enjoy* what I do! Promotion? Insult.

Comment on My outlook on life by loveOcean

loveOcean — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:03:30 +0000

Interesting article. However, if I were in a manager where I had several data entry people and other employees considered “hackers” per the article, I’d have to say it would be hard to apply policy fairly.

When a data entry person came to me stating that they also needed to do personal things so they could be more productive it would be hard to deny their request.

It made me consider that the latter “hackers” would probably be best hired as 1099 employees or on a per-job basis. I’ve seen this so many times in the computer industry.

Stu

Comment on Kathy Griffin advertises for GoDaddy.com by loveOcean

loveOcean — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:46:34 +0000

That is so obviously not K.G.!!

Comment on Thoughts about my Asphyxiation by Marc

Marc — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:07:22 +0000

The “whom” you need to do “something” for is yourself, I think. But that doesn’t mean be selfish. Find a path you want to follow and do it. Sometimes we get too bogged down in self-doubt and asking too many questions, and nothing happens for too long. Life is too precious for that.

A living will is a great idea. I should do that too. After I move…

Comment on Is President Bush admiring China? by Xaxio

Xaxio — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:14:17 +0000

I bet you that ALL of America is going to feel really bad about that in about a decade, when they all figure out that not everybody in those countries is trying to kill us. Damn yellow journalism…

Comment on Is President Bush admiring China? by catnapping

catnapping — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:39:22 +0000

With Bush, it’s “I’ll do anything to help America evolve into a fascist dictatorship.”

Bush’s family has a history of sympathizing with nazi facists. Look to his Dad and Grand-dad. His Grandfather actually sent money to the Nazis, and, in 1991, his GW’s father quoted Hitler, calling for a “New World Order.”

Bush invaded Iraq, and is set to march on through to Iran. … And like Hitler, he’s using racism to justify his actions. He wants us to hate the Muslims. He’s been rounding them up, and letting American troops and CIA torture them…just like the Nazis did to the Jews.