… specifically to get the White House home brewed beer recipe!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/white-house-beer-recipe-obama_n_1818531.html
Let’s get to the truth!
Petition for Beer
Reply
Civilian Drones On Display
Expo puts civilian drones on display. See link for more details.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/09/business/la-fi-drone-expo-20120809
Speaking
Having been involved with Toastmaster International for over four years, my speaking abilities have constantly improved. My speeches have included humorous ones as well as inspirational ones and have been presented in many contests. I have sponsored a new club and mentored several new members. This is an opportunity to pass along what was learned and showcase speeches by me as well as others.
Mike
August Caption Contest
“If you clean up your Olympic size mess, I will award you with a gold chocolate coin.” Submitted to opinion.usatoday.com.
Wall Street Crash Could Happen Again
On April 8, 2013 new more sophisticated Securities and Exchange Commission rules seeking to prevent another flash-crash tookeffect, but some observers are dubious about how effective they will be in another crisis-situation.
On August 1, 2012 the Knight Capital Group had a $400 million trading snafu.
On May 6, 2010, the Flash Crash occurred where the Dow Jones fell 9.2% in a matter of minutes. Finally a short story that explains how it could have happened and how it might happen again.
Click on Flash Crash Epitaph to read this short story. Enjoy!
Mustache Public Service Announcement
July Caption Contest
Here is my caption that I submitted to opinion.usatoday.com.
“For a second there, I thought I saw Congress.”
You Must Have Rocks In Your Head
Some people including my wife get turned around easily. In other words, they easily lose their sense of direction.
So I tell people, “If only my wife would eat more raisins.” They ask, “Why?”
I reply, “Because raisins are full of iron and if my wife had more iron, then maybe her internal compass would work better.” 😉
Committees – Need Lots of Love and KISS
Committees get overly complicated and bogged down. Here is a website that tries to solve this dilemma.
Irreverent but in an innovative way.
Reminds me of the book “Exploiting Chaos”.
Sybase SQL Question – Remove percentage sign from values in table
Solution:
If your DBMS does NOT have a “replace” function, you will have to use character substitution using several string functions.
Here is an example in Sybase and SQL Server.
UPDATE YourTable
SET YourColumn = stuff(YourColumn, patindex(YourColumn, ‘%’), 1, NULL)
This says find the pattern of ‘%’ in YourColumn. Now use that position number and replace aka stuff the character with NULL instead.
Good SQL, good night.
Michael E Kelley 