sxyme4utosee

I've read an article in Newsweek during the lunch:

A girl has a web site titled "sxyme4utosee", meets several men for sex, online and off. On her Web site she uses a vulgar, sex and racial remarks and slang as well as provocative images. Then when she gets killed while fucking a guy she arranged to see on the back-lot of McDonald's, some idiot entitles her picture "Lost Innocence". The article title is "A Chat-Room Encounter's Tragic End".

- Hello?!? How are we supposed to react? To wonder about this cruel world and the innocent girl (age 13) in it? Did she not know exactly that what she was doing was wrong, did she not say it openly that she is living a double life? I think the America's public should grasp a reality...

"Another whore bites the dust"

FotoArtLib.com

I shot a lot of pictures by the Chicago River during the lunch today. I hope that at least one will be a "keeper". The Web site is comming around, it is becoming a nice stop on the Internet. I would like to add at least average of one good photo per day, but I don't want to use any of a mediocre quality. It takes more than 20 shots on the same subject to get one right. FotoArtLib.com

I have an idea for a new photo set, say, "Chicago wrapped in Nature". Cheesy? Nevertheless, I want to mix shots of nature within big city. We don't have Central Park, but Chicago has it's green spots.

Today, for a change, I feel somewhat elation. I did not feel that way for such a long time that I would say it is a new feeling, or maybe it feels anew every time you feel it.
I noticed that my work situation greatly influences my spirits. Recently, I was allowed to do my job again, I remember I used to love my work when I was really running technology departament. Also, taking and processing pictures gives me a great pleasure and a good hobby to take my mind off the thought how low indeed we live our lives.

I am happy that some of my friends on moving on with their lives and doing what they want, where they want it, may it be NY, or Arizona. Everyone is so different, yet beautiful.

paddling a canoe... with a tennis racket

Programming Web with ASP/VBS is like paddling a canoe... with a tennis racket.

I am so frustrated. (explanation for all of you geeks out there) I have been programming ASP pages and discovered that a certain instance of a variant (root of all evil) in VBS can be:
- neither an object, Null, nothing, zip, nada
- nor have any length, not nothing, not zero, not a Null length.
I cannot detect it with any comparison, as if somebody erased all reference of it from the memory.
I call it varBlackHole.

Recipe for this varBlackHole?

Pull a Null from MS SQL, stuff it into an Scripting.Dictionary Object (e.g. objDict("myDBNull") ), pass that reference to a function as regular variant (e.g. funFunCheckValue( objDict("myDBNull") ) ).

Function funFunCheckValue( varBlackHole )
   ' Hello World! I am a varBlackHole variant and I am absolutely useless!
   funFunCheckValue = varBlackHole
End Function