Forenoon watch, 4 bells (10:17 am)
Remember remember the fifth of November…when one man had a great vision—lots of dead politicians.
Last dog watch, 1 bell (6:33 pm)
If, like me, you've been using PHP's PDO via the MSSQL driver, be aware that newer versions of PHP do not support MSSQL natively. Microsoft has it's own PHP driver now, or you can use the FreeTDS MSSQL extension, but I strongly recommend just switching to use the provided ODBC and PDO_ODBC extensions and save yourself the trouble. If you're already using PDOs, then you just have to create the object a little differently. For example:
$sql = new PDO("odbc:Driver={SQL Native Client};Server=ip.add.re.ss;Database=dbname;Uid=user;Pwd=password");
That worked for me. Not sure what you can do about the old mssql_guid_string function if you need that, though. I have the FreeTDS lib installed as well and that lets me call it, until I figure out how to do the same thing in ODBC.
Yes, ASP fans, that's a ONE LINE connection to a database. That's all anyone should need!
Forenoon watch, 5 bells (10:35 am)
Today is my sister Jodie's birthday. Happy birthday Jodie!
First dog watch, 3 bells (5:44 pm)
"Goodbye" in Mandarin Chinese is: "881." You'll have to get a Chinese-speaking person to explain that to you though.
First watch, 8 bells (12:03 am)
- Today is my wife's birthday. Taking the day off to spend with her, except she's still asleep #
- Pita Pit in Post Falls is closing. I has a sad now. #
- Holy crap it's another @wootoff!! #
- Got me some Google Wave invites, let me know if you want one! #
- Well that went fast. Wave invites are out. You'll get a message from me if I added you. #
- Been itching to listen to some Saw Doctors lately. Time to queue them up.. #
- Totally agree with @wilw about U2 and the Joshua Tree album. #
- Just played "I'd Love to Kiss The Bangles" by @sawdoctors. Oh yeah, that's the stuff! #
- Ah yeah. "The Mermaid" by Great Big Sea just came up on random. #
- Oh heck yeah! Great Big Sea is playing Spokane again, at the Met Theater November 17th at 8pm. Kevin Burke is playing on the 18th! #
- Tannahill Weavers on random play now... Good stuff. #
- Just got a ticket to see Kevin Burke in Spokane next month! #
- Am I the only one that is glad they don't dye pistachios red anymore? #
- RT @Orbitz We’re giving away 10 free airline tickets today! FOLLOW @Orbitz & RT this msg to be eligible to win. http://bit.ly/3hZo37 #
- Got a bunch of pistachios from @getcrackin and the @wootoff Yum! #
- My friend and ex cow orker John S. just returned from a month in Ireland. Brilliant! Spent my honemoon there, it was gorgeous! #
- Wow. Over 15k emails blocked by Barracuda's RBL today. That's a lot of bad mail. #
- Well that about wraps up the day. Must remember to get more sleep tonight. It was a rough start.. #
- Yesterday @kxly4news interrupted Castle-in the middle of the show-for a news teaser. Way to go guys. #
- At the doctors office this morning for a visit with my favorite physician. #
- O HAI Adobe. Mike @AngryPets doesn't like you. I don't like you either. I have the death sentence on 12 systems. Flash FAIL. #
- I just love My First Dictionary. Twisted, twisted humor. http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com #
- The amount of Diet Pepsi I consume is directly proportional to the stress of the work day I'm having. Today, most of my drink is still here. #
- Random Crap just crashed @wootoff servers #
- I had a great BBQ Chicken pizza from @garlicjim a couple weeks ago. Their menu is on our corkboard at work
Way more gourmet than takeout! # - Just heard that my coworker's daughter passed away. She was young, early 20s. #
- He's out of town at a trade show. Talk about your awful timing.. #
- Wootmonkeys!! @wootoff #
- Morning is going by fast. Tons of work to do today. Deadlines to meet, etc. And it's snowing outside. #
- Deadlines not quite met, but much progress was made. In the end, that'll do pig, that'll do. #
- Oooh twitter lists. Shiny. #
- Took care of Frank and Sarah's kitty, at least until his ravenous hunger for human flesh outweighed his need for companionship. #
- I've been burgled! Someone took my diet pepsi from the fridge at work. Today is not starting out well... #
- HAHA! RT @AngryPets: Is it wrong to envision a world where Remote Desktop's 'Remember My Password' actually works? #
- RT @philipjreed: Game fans, Nanuk is in my hands! And there are more copies out in the warehouse. We'll have the game for sale at BGG Con. in reply to philipjreed #
- I really like Sloop John B when sung by @CarbonLeaf #
- Hard to work when you're thinking about space ships and dinosaurs... #
- Just closed a 5 year old IT request. Yes, 5 years old. Who's the man? The solution? Wait 5 years until it's a non-issue. #
- Just put it together in my head that Robert Carlyle from SG:U was the same guy from the 1999 movie Ravenous. That was a creepy movie! #
- Scariest thing so far about Halloween is the direction the Dow is going.. #
- Watched the Invader Zim halloween episode today. It is neat. #
- My pumpkin this year: http://yfrog.com/c93g2j #
- We never get many trick-or-treaters in our cul-de-sac, so the first ones are going to get full-sized candy bars: every kids Halloween dream #
- Started marinading cilantro and lime chicken for Sunday dinner tomorrow: fajitas! #
- Tonight's dinner? Taquitos! (And a clown with no head) #
- Had 15 trick or treaters, they all got full sized candy bars #