I am planning on writing it myself if I don't find anything. I figured I'd try and take the easy way out first though... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

We're doing a fundraiser for charity at my company. Some have asked if there is any way that we could allow people to submit challenges to other people. The money raised for each challenge would be collected as a donation. Example: John Smith would pay $50 to see Bob Jones shave his head. I'm pretty sure that I've come across some websites that let people submit challenges like this but I can't seem to find any now that I need one. Does anyone know of any? Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader

The following came from an article called I'm A Programmer, Not A Computer Guy[^]. The author started off griping about how people assume that computer programmers know EVERYING about PC related issues and troubleshooting based on the fact that they work with one aspect of computers. He went on to make a great sports analogy: "Did you watch the Raiders game?" "No, I don't follow football ------" "What do you think of the new quarterback?" "Really, football's not my thing. I don't know." "I thought that you said that you're a sports fan?" "No, I said that I watched tennis." "Right, so what did you think of the penalty called in the Raiders game?" "I watch tennis." "Why would they call a penalty like that?" Um. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com -- modified at 8:09 Monday 16th January, 2006

It's funny that you mention that. I read that item earlier today and thought the same thing... I took a Cold Fusion class when going for my bachelors degree. My proudest moment was taking down the Cold Fusion server during taking the final exam by writing some poor code that contained an infinite loop. The professor didn't have access to reset the server and had to send us all home... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

This is fantstic. I came across this last night and have been using it to torment co-workers all day... http://www.officepoltergeist.com[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

Ray Cassick wrote:

the CP Lounge feed doe snot show the message threads like the other feeds do

This is true with Google Reader as well. It is probably intentional. Personally, I prefer it this way. I wouldn't want to my RSS inbox to be filled with all responses to all posts - some threads tend to get a bit long. However, I must say that this results in me reading significantly less CP Lounge posts... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

This clip came from an American show called Reno 911[^]. The show a spoof on "Cops". The series is pretty hilarious. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

wow... http://www.latteart.nl/fotos_etching.asp[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. If Bill Gates had a penny for every time Windows crashed......Oh wait, he does. "My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading." - Steve Jobs Beware of Geeks bearing .gifs There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. The two most dangerous things in the world: A Pollock with a computer and a programmer with a screwdriver. Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny. Who is General Protection Fault and why is he reading my hard disk? I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!! Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects. Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!" Should the year 2000 VW Beetle be refered to as the "Y2K Bug"? With no walls or fences on the Internet, who needs Windows or Gates? Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface. Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. 1010011010 - The binary number of the Beast A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell', sees the 'go to', rather than the destination, as harmful. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. - Dick Brandon Behind every good computer -- is a jumble of wires 'n stuff. A much wittier reply came to mind immediately after I clicked the 'Send' button. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken (1900-1972) --American Engineer, developed the first computers for IBM Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - found on SQLSecurity.com

Very cool "edit in place" example using CSS and JavaScript. http://tool-man.org/examples/edit-in-place.html[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

Paul Watson wrote:

Not sure how that impacts my build/revision number question though.

Oops. Looks like I made up my own question and answered it. I'll blame that on a rough weekend. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

According to Joel, you should be doing a daily build regardless... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000023.html[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

Some great Photoshop images on Worth1000.com. The one of Linday Lohan is my personal favorite. http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=8087&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

"Scientists believe they have worked out a formula to calculate how 'beer goggles' affect a drinker's vision." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4468884.stm[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

"1) Why does everyone feel the need to parrot other news sites here. I've already seen the two news stories that were recently posted on at least FOUR other sites. C'mon guys, how about something original?" I agree with this completely. About 90% of the news posts in the Lounge have already surfaced on sites like digg.com or Slashdot. I don't think CP would fare too well if ranked on http://diggvsdot.com[^]... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity. - quote found on SQLSecurity.com

The Pong video game turns 34 years old today! The industry has come a long way since then but Pong still beats many of the games that come out today. Rather than link to the original version which everyone has no doubt seen, I'm including a link to "Pong: The Text-Based Game". http://web.archive.org/web/20040724051421/http://www.karber.net/textbased/pong/[^] It doesn't get any better than that.... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader There is no 'patch' for stupidity.

I don't think that there will ever be a way to stop people from posting items that don't belong in the Lounge - this is something that I can accept. What I don't like is when it turns into a 20 post thread about how it should be posted somewhere else. This wastes space, pushes down legitimate posts, and is just plain annoying. There was an example today of how I think it should work where the poster was re-directed to the appropriate location with a single reply. http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1288929#xx1288929xx[^] Is there any way to add a button on the the "Reply" page form that says something along the lines of "Not Appropriate for Lounge"? Clicking this button could pre-populate the reply with some stock text that has proven to be relatively effective in the past. Something like the following might work: "This post belongs in a different forum - the Lounge is intended for discussion on non-programming related items only. You could try posting this in one of the programming forums[^]. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader

Cool site that will sing whatever text you enter into a text box based on a database of popular songs. Here is one that I put together. http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm?key=1MGNPMTV[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader

I haven't tried downloading this but it looks pretty cool from the screenshots. I'm not exactly sure how something like this would be useful though. http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots.html[^] Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader

Hmmmmm. I didn't even think to question it since there were quite a few facts sprinkled into the story. Not that this source[^] is any more reliable but here is a statement that disputes this theory. "Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room "04" in building "4", the offices start at "410" and work upwards - don't ask me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN - it simply doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where the web began". In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room 404" thing is just a myth." Now I don't know what to believe... Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader