2008-05-27

Is Public Transport Worth it?

I take the bus to work with Connor(my boy) everyday the reason that I do it is because I work for a company that has a policy to pay for all public transport. Having only recently e bother getting my restricted licence I though it would be fun to see how much it costs and how long it takes to get to work with each option, with that in mind I decided to drive to work for all of last week. Here are the details:
BusCar
Cost per day ($ NZ)$ 4.00$ 3.20
Time per day(h:mm)1:200:40
People wonder why public transport is not use as much as it could be if you look above you will see that not only does it cost more but it takes longer, I will revisit this in a few months and see if increased gas prices make public transport look better.

2008-04-18

Worth Watching if you like Games

Here are the authors of "Grand Theft Childhood" Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.

2008-04-15

Google Workers Rocking Out or are they

Here is a picture of the google workers in the Zurich office rocking out to Guitar Hero II or are they.

Did you see what was wrong with the picture above, thats right they are not playing Guitar Hero they are playing the dashboard, opps.

2008-04-11

Queens of the Stone Age

O.K. Queens of the Stone Age was a little while ago but I thought that it would be worth sharing this low quality video of the concert.

The Landlord

Bad Photoshop

I was looking on trade me this morning and I spotted quite possibly the worse attempt of photoshoping a image ever, and thought other people might like to see it in its full glory.

2spend2 keep up the good work.

2008-03-13

How I Fixed - SQL Server Error 310

I have just spent an hour trying to work out why my Sql Server Agent would not start. I kept getting this error message
SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: Unable to connect
to server'(local)'; SQLServerAgent cannot start).

It was making me really angry when I realised what was wrong, I did not have the account for the Windows user the agent was running under in my database to. I created an account and gave it full access to the db and now everything is going fine.

P.S. Yes I know i am an idiot.