Alex Papadimoulis

Not too long ago, Erik was hired to do extend and maintain a timesheet application for an employment agency. It was an ASP/VBScript web-app with data that lived in the Everything Database: a single SQL Server database filled with random tables from all sorts of various applications.

Tandem Computers were all the rage in the mid-1980s, especially in the banking industry and other high-transaction environments. "While most computer systems have failure rates on the order of a few days," Tandem salespeople would often say, "our NonStop line of computers is designed to fail hundreds of times less. We measure our uptime in years." And they were right: Tandem delivered hardware solutions with virtually no downtime.

Some companies spare no expense to make sure they get all of their money. Apparently, Windstream Communications is no exception as, a few months back, Aaron's company received this stern disconnection notice via Certified Mail...

Originally posted in the sidebar, "Throgdor the Bold" was having a few JavaScript issues on Houston Chronicle's site and took a peek at the source code. At the bottom of their utils.js, he noticed this...

This story was originally posted to The Sidebar by "citking".

"I was asked this question when signing up for a bank account," wrote James. "I was going to answer 'The', but was surprised to find this rather limited selection... "

"Having recently upgraded my forum software," Kinta wrote, "I noticed that my site had been running incredibly slow."

Originally posted to The Sidebar by "ObiWayneKenobi"...

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Back in 1919, Proffitt’s opened their first department store in downtown Maryville, TN. While it didn’t quite have the prestige of a big city department store like Saks Fifth Avenue, it certainly had the technology of one.

Document Dis (from Lawrence)

Hypothetical Question from Simon

"After close consideration," writes Nick, "I've decided that my mayo really expired on Feb 19, 2008, not 1908. Apparently, Y2K bugs never seem to expire...