Archive for January, 2005

jalouda hacked to death

Friday, January 21st, 2005

some scumbag has hacked one of my other domains, the deeply tragic jalouda.com
i had stopped the site ages ago anyway but because it was my first ever domain i have a big soft spot for it.
unfortunately not everyone was so fond of it and someone hacked in and put up some fake paypal page [...]

calculated columns in sql server

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

I frequently suffer from Mondayitis but it can strike on Tuesdays too!
I was creating a stored procedure in SQL Server this morning involving GROUP BY, CASE statements, aggregate functions, ISNULL and COALESCE for good measure. Everything was working fine, except that one of the calculated columns was zero all the way down, even though none [...]

invites aplenty

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

first up, gavin is kindly organising an irish blog meetup. i know this has been mentioned on other blogs but i’m just doing my bit by alerting my 2 readers i’m going to try and pop along myself for a bit if i can and all are welcome, so please let him know if [...]

strawberry savings

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

I was a bit wary at first, but having seen it heavily featured on pigsback, I finally decided to check out StrawberryNET, a discount online cosmetics store.
They certainly have a wide selection of skin care, make up and perfumes on offer, unlike the disappointing cd-wow sister site wow woman, and the prices seem generally far [...]