Shockingly, it would appear that we are now dealing with reality as it is, not as we might want it. What the right-wingers don’t want you to know is that these steps actually useful in accomplishing goals they claim are so very important to them, to wit, reducing the number of abortions.Granted, there are some [...]
Pope to Muslims: Religion rejects violence – Africa – msnbc.com
“Genuine religion … stands at the base of any authentically human culture,” he said. “It rejects all forms of violence and totalitarianism: not only on principles of faith but also of right reason.”
(unless its the One True Catholic Church, in which case, CRUSADE ON, BROTHER!)
The pope [...]
So, I’ve been getting a lot of hits on my posts for generating Oracle SQLLDR control files from excel, and such.
For those of you out there, I’m happy to help y’all out any way I can. VBA is fun, and useful, and the more I do the more I learn. Mostly I focus [...]
Here it is:Pope visits Africa, reaffirms ban on condoms – CNN.com
Pope Benedict has always made it clear he intends to uphold the traditional Catholic teaching on artificial contraception — a “clear moral prohibition” — Allen said. But his remarks Tuesday were among the first times he stated the policy explicitly since he became pope nearly [...]
Utah has a bill in play H.B. 353 regarding video game sales and ratings and such.
In an attempt to bring game selling under state control, they are introducing an amendment that says, in effect: If you promise to follow the ESRB guidelines and then you don’t, you are in violation of the truth in advertising [...]
Stem Cells are a horrible distraction
“Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job No. 1. Let’s focus on what needs to be done,” Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Dear GOP, welcome to a world where the President can [...]
Now, this guy works for schools, so its not like Bill Gates coming out and saying “Hey, Apple Bad, Buy MS” or anything. But what he IS falling prey to is that we MUST keep lowering the bar on everything. Software has to all be the same or else how can we deal? Shockingly, kids [...]
And another tool I use a lot.
I often get asked to export all the (relatively small) tables in a schema into worksheets in an excel workbook, one per tab.
Usually, theres a back and forth first with me trying to explain how this probably won’t mean much, the user
not understanding, me explaining, the user either not [...]
Just a little geek moment here.
For my job, I do a lot of dataloads. Its actually kind of annoying because ctl files are kind of annoying.
ANYHOO, I got tired of writing the things and the typos and such, so I made a little VBA app in Excel.
The code assumes that the column names are [...]
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