I just finished reading an article over at MSNBC in which James Oberg recaps the top 7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster. Now, I'm not sure about the rest of you, but the Challenger disaster has always been one of those moments of my life that I can recall with complete clarity. Despite the fact that I was only about 5 years old at the time - yes, I'm that young - I remember it like it was yesterday... or so I thought before reading Oberg's article. The following is how I've always remembered that event, or rather...

My girlfriend and I were in our home office this afternoon, each at our own desk working (or in her case, trying to find the end of the Internet), and every few minutes she would burst out in laughter. After 15 minutes of this, I finally had to see what was going on. When I asked her whats so funny and she replied:Drunk guy: Here's hoping you're in Heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you're dead.Drunk girl: What's that mean?Drunk guy: It's an Irish toast.Drunk girl: Oh. Well, here's to bread, eggs and cinnamon.Drunk guy: Huh?Drunk girl:...

"SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) is a collection of objects encapsulating Microsoft® SQL Server™ database and replication management." Well pretty much sums it up for me!But in all honesty, SQL-DMO is a great tool that you can use for accessing and manipulating your SQL Server DB's from within your .NET applications. One such application [here comes the obligatory plug] is subText! We are currently using SQL-DMO in a custom database connection string builder that we use to get information about local (or network) SQL Servers while installing the subText platform. This allows us to have a quazi-wizard method for building...

In this highly connected world, its hard to be a part of the Internet community and not use some form of instant messaging (IM) system. Today there are a host of different IM protocols and clients... from the highly popular and feature [over]packed MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, etc... or maybe you're a fan of the old skool and bare-bones IRC protocol, or perhaps even the grand-daddy of them all UNIX "talk". Most of my family and college friends are on AIM, the guys from subText (and some other Microsofties I know) are on MSN...

First off, let me just say Go BUCKS! It was truely was an exhilarating and hard fought game last night. Second, I would like to offer my condolences to all of you Notre Shame fans out there. If you need help coping with the loss, I got this from a coworker who happens to be a huge Fighting Irish fan. Now lets hope that the rest of the Big10 (only Penn State has yet to play) can win the big games and show how great this conference is! On a related note (and because I think USC is the most over-rated team in...