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It's official, I'm a registered Perl developer

1800. David Solimano -- DSOLIMANO

Soon I shall unleash my parser on the world. No one will use it except me, and I will grow bitter.

IT industry deaths for 2009

A sad year indeed. I believe that I rue the loss of Palm OS most of all.

Pipe Viewer

Ever wondered what was going on inside a pipeline? Well wonder no more! IBM has put together a neat little utility that shows you what's happening.

Getting just the date

Just because I run into this problem a million times a month and always forget the correct magic:

SELECT DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()))

Definition of recursive

It's a Stack Overflow question about a stack overflow! Classic.

Why "Old GM" is trading at more than zero

User friendly and deletes your data

Apparently there are circumstances where Apple's Time Machine backup product will delete all of your old backups to make room for some new data, like after an upgrade or when attaching a new drive to the system.

This is exactly why I use tapes. See the following dialog:

OS X - "Please insert week 3 user data backup tape, I need to wipe it so that I can replace your backups with copies of OS X binaries though you already have those on DVD"

Me - "No"