Well then, I for one am certainly relieved.  If a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa can cause a hurricane, I can only imagine what devastation a billion chinese whispering altogether at...

I'm truly sorry, I did not recognize the link as such and therefore did not click on it. 

This may or may not be due to the fact that my hovercraft...

In response to qed3, I found this definition for 'lurch':

Idiom:

in the lurch

"In a difficult or embarrassing position."

This is as opposed to a 'larch' which is:

 "Any of several deciduous, coniferous...

"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man"

I don't think truer words were ever spoken by man or...

My old 450 MHz AMD desktop (which my PC Tech friend says stands for "Another Man Duped"  ) was on its last...

I have read the source article and I can only compare what Tao is accused of to my sending an e-mail to a freind in say the UK or South...

LOL...just actually saw that one again last night. 

Similar Petshops Ltd.

"...the pallendrome of Boltun is Nutlob"

Interesting topic, although I'm not sure I like the title "Slacking off" as it seems to imply that "taking a mental health day" now and then is something that is...

My brain hurts!     (too bad we don't have a 'gumby' smiley)

I was thinking about changing my avatar.... 

Then I'll assume that you're speaking about operating system patches as the last patch that I know of for SQL Server 2000 was 03-031 released in 2003.  I've you've installed...

From QA run 'select @@version'.  There is a list of what the corresponding SP levels mean here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/dPriyankara/versionservicepack.asp

Hope this helps.

Not even the lumberjack sketch? 

Great question.  I know as a rule, this isn't recommended from a performance standpoint as not all performance enhancements available in 2000 are supported.  But if your hardware is new...

I must be punchy today or something.  At first read, I thought Steve was advising us to 'shred' our monitors.