2009 – Mike's home page

Easy bullet

2009-05-122009-05-12 by mike

“easy but time consuming… makes you want to eat a bullet” – supervette describing his MIS final, but thinking it was said about him!

Mikes of America

2009-04-082009-04-08 by mike

http://www.mikesofamerica.com

Age appropriate tools, devices etc.

2009-03-302009-03-30 by mike

I heard a guy today say that his two year old can operate his iPhone. Everyone knows that an iPhone is easy to use. But I hadn’t actually heard of a two year old using one. This illustrates the fact that it is in fact designed to such a low common denominator that, apparently, one […]

No programming language is perfect

2009-03-112009-03-11 by mike

No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes. –Herbert Mayer

On borrowing money

2009-02-262009-02-26 by mike

The first time I ever borrowed money from anyone I was 15. I had taken drivers ed and had everything taken care of to get my license on my 16th, I was ready to go. I’d been working various jobs since I was 14, saving up to buy a car. Unlike kids today back then […]

Best joke I’ve heard in a while…

2009-02-242009-02-24 by mike

A friend just told me he was reading about how to setup the built in VPN in Windows Server… You have to disable the firewall.

Dog Story

2009-02-132009-02-13 by mike

Dog Story A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale .’ He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees […]

Year: 2009