They may have gotten to the PC level. It only takes 3 digits for CTL+ALT+DEL. Does this mean that Windows is appealing to our reptile brains, or that...

COBOL could be around for another 8000 years, but my guess is that, by that time, only the mutant self-aware cockroaches will care.

For those of you who are Zelazny fans and may have read "Lord of Light" and/or "Creatures of Light and Darkness", I'd recommend Steven Brust's "To Reign in Hell". ...

The Lensman books will always be my favorite space opera. Stalwart heroes, consumately evil bad guys, daring escapes, epic space battles...

What more could you want out of a fantasy...

Dhalgren is definitely on my list. When I read it the first time, I got to the end and thought "What a ride!". The whole diary within a...

Roger Zelazny for me. Lord of Light is my favorite novel of all time. The Amber series was also quite good.

Steven Brust, with his Vlad Taltos series, is...

Yep, pretty soon I'll be getting the Honored parking at Shari's...

Seriously, it came as quite a jolt to get the AARP membership application in the mail. Makes me think...

All-night, drunken D&D at the next PASS?

I'd have to show up for that. I might not live through it, but what the hey...

I started late (in my 30s) so I used the AD&D books to start with, but hey, once a geek, always a geek.

Never could get my kids interested...

Hmmmmm...

So many AD&D players.

DM: The OP has just sprung from behind a large pile of unread MSDN Library DVDs, wielding an update query with no qualifiers.

Cardinal Moden (15th level...

Dear SQL Experts,

I am having problem with machinery controlled by SQL database. Rest of staff ran from room and supervisor shouted "You're in charge" as he shut outer blast...

The correct name of the master database is "Alfred". If the OP doesn't see it in his list, he should re-install SQL Server as many times as it takes...

Given that the order of data in a relational database normally has no meaning and that you have only values in the table you created, you're lacking a method for...

I think a lot of this is a 'learning styles' issue. I love to read manuals, but I'm a visual learner. If I see it, I can usually...

Most of the DBA folk I have worked with came from non-computer science educational backgrounds. Our current DBA at my place of employment is a cartographer by training. ...