Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • Community Server 1.0 Released

    The new software is finally here. Time to play. Link

  • The Gates II, “The Crackers”

    I thought this was funny: Stolen from here.

  • Amazon Prime

    So I just signed up with Amazon Prime. Now I get free 2 day shipping on all orders and $4 per item for overnight orders. For $79, this may sound like no big deal, but it works out to be really cool. I just bought 3 books and told amazon to ship each one as…

  • Netflix Insults

    I thought it would be funny to make fun of my fat friend by sending Netflix suggestions to him of every movie I could think of with either “Fat”, “Food”, or a name of a food in the title. I thought it was pretty funny. He responded. Here is what he suggested to me: Pretty…

  • Grammy Awards

    Ok, that was the most amazing Grammy’s ever. Am I alone in this? I NEVER watch the Grammy’s, but it just held me there captive. The stage, the performers…unbelievable. Anything involving Stevie Wonder makes me smile. Things still pissed me off though. Namely: The voters inability to pick correct choices. What is w/ Ray Charles…

  • Your wife is like a roller coaster…

    There is a long line getting on, lots of screaming, and I feel sick afterward.

  • Google Maps

    Check out them apples: Google Maps Tour Now if it was only in the Prius…

  • Messenger Beta 7

    In case ya’all straight tripping, you bets be gittin MSN Messenger 7 Beta. Then while you be representin’, gets Message Plus 3.4 Beta to make all yo homies mo’ pimp. Afta dat you can hit it with some skin by gettin all up in http://www.rolandunderg.net/skins.php. I’m like the hardest programmer evah. Feel it.

  • Count Distinct Rows in SQL Server

    Question: How do you count distinct rows in a query? 1st Try: I *thought* this would work: select distinct count(taskid) from #temp however, it returned the count of all taskid's. 2nd Try: then I tried keeping duplicates out to begin with, so I could just do a normal count(taskid). That wasn't fool proof. Solution: Just…

  • iTunes Album Purchased Today

    Bright Eyes – Digital Ash in a Digital Urn