OK, I’ll admit I got got by a couple of the April Fool’s pranks around on Wednesday. I was duped by Bill Harris at newly-subscribed Dubious Quality blog with his corker post on asthma and gravity. I was suckered by TheRuntime’s own Jay Kimble who had me worried when he blogged about closing this site. I only raised an eyebrow at the phoney SaveIE6 campaign...at least I think it’s phoney... I feel like about 10% of an April Fool. I’d better pay more attention next year :-) Tags: april fool, funny

Louis over at lbrandy has a funny-yet-serious post on "Demotivating a (Good) Programmer" (found via Delicious popular links). Here's my favorite bit: Developers hate three things, above all else, in increasing order of painfulness… Working on stuff that is easyWorking on stuff that is tangentialWorking on stuff that no one will use These are the three deadliest of deadly sins in the development world. Especially number three. Nothing will suck the life out of programmer faster than working on something he is certain no one will ever use. I don't know about you, but I totally agree with number 3. I can still remember...

Aussie SQL Server MVP Rob Farley has been busy lately, speaking at TechEd (and blogging his presentation here). He's doing his TechEd talk at the Melbourne SQL Server User Group on Tuesday night and obviously means fair-dinkum business, as evidenced by the subject line of the invite e-mail :-) (The full subject actually read "AUSSUG: Invitation: Improving Your T-SQL Arsenal (Rob Farley)", but in my e-mail client it was cut off...he he...) Tags: funny, email

I was mucking around with installing SQL Server 2005 workstation tools, and came to a situation where I had to uninstall the free Management Studio Express to install the developer edition (yes, it sounds confusing). In the process of removing Management Studio Express, I got the following dialog: What do I press? Tags: funny, error message