Monthly Archives: December 2007

If architects were expected to work like web designers…

… they might get a letter like this:
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Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added [...]

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Romans 7:14 - 8:1

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the [...]

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What is sin?

John Wesley once looked his mother in the eye and asked a massive question. “Mother,” he said, “can you give me a definition for sin?” That brilliant woman who raised two giants in the faith—John, the preacher, and Charles, the great hymnist—said this: “Son, whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures [...]

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Your Random Thought For The Week.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday… lying in hospitals beds… dying of nothing.

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Getting Range In DB2

DB2 is the database bane of my online existence. It doesn’t support even the most basic of SQL commands, let alone handy dandy functions such as LIMIT and the seriously-limited-but-none-the-less-useful TOP found in MySQL and an assortment of other SQL databases. So how am I supposed to select a range of recordsin DB2? With nested [...]

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