Monthly Archives: February 2008

Another failed UPS

Tonight another UPS failed. Same brand as before, these little black APC units. It failed the same way as the last one, by going into a perpetual 15 second power off/on cycle. I had bought these small units to run my little router and cable modem, wanting to have a separate power source for the [...]

Taxes done

Late last night I finally got the Statiksoft LLC taxes completed, which had to be completed before I could finish my personal taxes, and this morning before work got everything mailed off and finished. One good thing I learned is that I can probably open up an invididual 401K because of being a part owner [...]

MySQL SELECT Entries Before NOW()

I’m in the business of making things faster. Using NOW() in a SQL query is something I’m going to complain about. Here’s a familiar senario from the online publishing industry where future dating articles is a commonality:
You have a news site. You need to display only articles that have been published, and one of the [...]

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