Thanks to Dewayne Christensen, I have finally picked a name for Caffeinated Coder Jr. (or Little Miss Caffeinated Coder), who is due to arrive at the end of March. If it is a boy, we were thinking of naming him Alexander, but now I’m going to give my wife the hard sell on naming him [...]
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I just discovered that the birthday prank I wrote about last week is actually somewhat of a tradition around here. In order to commemorate the last week of a fellow employee who was leaving, an email was recently circulated that reminisced about some of the more memorable moments during his three year tenure. Here is [...]
I would like to wish Jacob Shafton from StoreFinancial a most festive birthday today! When I came in this morning, this is what I saw in his cube. The opening was closed with Saran wrap and the cube was filled nearly to the top with shredded paper (we’ll call it Enron confetti). Keep in mind [...]
There have been a lot of criticisms of ALT.NET by bloggers like Colin Ramsay who claim that the nascent movement is elitist, divisive, and exclusive. Several of the attendees have balked at this view, but I will offer conclusive proof that the truth is much more dire than outsiders like Colin could have ever imagined. [...]
A new employee on the networks side started earlier this week and has already been nominated to the new employee hall of fame based on this voice message that he left on his boss’s phone on the morning of his second day. Apparently he had a little incident with the alarm system and calmly explains [...]
Dear Google Recruiters, Here is my answer to one of your interview questions that was posted by Tihomir Nakov. Question: Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her [...]
Here are a few scenes from the first day at my new job: My welcome kit consists of a coffee mug, a pen, and a DVD of the Big Lebowski. My new boss is a huge fan of this movie and several technical artifacts and regular meetings are named after characters and scenes. As we [...]
Last Friday I gave my two weeks notice at the bank that I worked at for the last 5 years. At first it was very difficult to tell people. When I told my boss, I had roughly the same anxiety level that I had when I broke up with my last girlfriend. It actually took [...]
A co-worker came across this error message in a Microsoft Knowledgebase Article while doing some research on how to implement a password expiration policy using the .NET Membership provider: Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords I’m going to ask Microsoft to please remove this link before they give [...]
A good friend of mine just sent me an email razzing me about my blog. Besides being a current running and drinking buddy, he also happens to be former project manager of mine who put some time in on the early stages of a large waterfall project that I reminisced about in a previous post. He gave me [...]
