http://brainfreezeblog.com Chronicles of neurological chatter.... Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:58:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever since posting links on Twitter to things I've written here the amount of comment/trackback spam I'm receiving has exploded.   Luckily WordPress has great spam filtering. http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/08/15/wow-twitter-spam-is-something-else/ The worst thing in the world is realizing too late that you made a huge mistake in choosing a particular path. A simple bit of advice (and something that should have been obvious to me): Think hard before making a life-changing decision.  Look at your current situation from as many viewpoints ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/08/15/look-before-you-leap/ I'll start with the moral of the story: read documentation carefully as it may contain the answer you seek.  These things are covered in the pay-for documentation available from JasperSoft but you have to skip around a bit to get what you need. With that out of the way I'll ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/29/running-jasperreports-with-subreports-in-an-app-server-environment/ OK. I consider myself liberal. Not rabidly leftist but definitely swinging to the left of center on most issues. I most definitely hardly ever side with what the Republicans are doing. That being said kudos to the Republican members of the house who blocked a monstrosity of ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/24/we-really-dont-need-a-mortgage-rescue-bill/ Yeah it sounds odd doesn't it? It's true though. I've been a subscriber for quite awhile at the $9.99 a month level. At that level I've been receiving 30 downloads a month which, if you do the math quickly, about $0.33 a track. I just received a note ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/23/emusiccom-cost-going-up-songs-end-up-cheaper/ Follwing are two emails I received one day about a month ago.    Names, etc. have been sanitized to protect the guilty.   Enjoy. The opening shot All, I have found that it is time for me to once again remind everyone to remove the grammatically incorrect and unnecessary "and/or" construction from use throughout ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/21/the-ultimate-email-smackdown-or-that-janus-faced-verbal-monstrosity/ You hear the whispers coming out of co-workers, hushed tones with odd inflections repeating words like 'yes', 'no', 'customer service'. Is this some weird conversation with a loved one? Then it dawns on you that your co-worker is busy navigating the world of a voice-recognition-based phone system. Almost everyone ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/08/phone-menu-navigation/ I still can not understand why people flock to the Taste of Chicago on July 3rd every year.   And every year the crowds seem to get larger.  Oh sure I understand that there is a fantastic fireworks display there every year.  In fact I used to enjoy it myself for ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/07/05/summer-festivals-big-crowds-and-why-the-taste-of-chicago-sucks/ Songs because the video is multiple songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim but the song I want to bring attention to is the "Girl From Ipanema".  This is a clip from Sinatra's 1967 television special A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim when the Bossa ... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/06/14/songs-of-the-day-06142008/ ...feel like complete shit when I get home from work every day? Just asking... http://brainfreezeblog.com/2008/06/10/do-i-really-have-to/