Based on my rental patterns at Netflix, when it comes to film/TV genres, I like (in this order), “TV Crime Dramas,” actor Jeremy Irons, “Pre-20th Century Period Pieces,” “Indie Dramas,” and mysteries. That’s pretty accurate, I’d say.    

Though I wrote a master’s thesis on Julian Barnes’ novels. I’d never actually heard his voice until today. Surprisingly, he sounds almost exactly like I would have expected him to. I’ve read a good many interviews with him, but I’d never heard one before now. This one is from several years back, I suspect, as [...]

I didn’t take the time to blog my birthday this year. I couldn’t think of anything to say other than the obvious (“yo, it’s my frickin birthday”). I updated my weird little universe via FaceBook, Twitter, and Google Talk status messages. And I got quite a few feel-good comments via those channels, which was nice. [...]

I need to write up a nice demo with examples, but here’s the short version: if you are creating aggregate queries in Microsoft Access 2007 (though it should work in previous versions, too) and end up with funny math because Access won’t subtract a null from a numeric value (or add one to a numeric [...]