for most of my life i've tried to be a generous friend. It may not always exactly equate to money, but none of my friends have had to cover very much when they hang out with me or need help.

so now i have bachelor party coming up. It's gonna be pretty awesome, cause i'm indirectly directing it. shit is going to happen, that you can't even imagine, only because what's going to happen is the type of thing that you never knew you wanted, but once you hear about it, you're gonna be like, wow, i wanna do that.

But, dozens of friends are being total assholes when it comes to it. why? i dunno....recession? depression? cheapness? lameness? i dunno. I may catch a ton of flack for this post, i may lose friends, but....jesus, if any of my friends asked for 100$ for their first bachelor party (and in my case only, which everyone knows) they'd get 200$, immediately. even if i couldn't make it.

maybe i'm just being a bitch, but some of the way people have responded really pisses me off. I mean, seriously, this is going to happen once, ever, in your entire lifetime, You can't shed a few dollars from the extra budget for it?

For those who didn't think twice, i thank you. It doesn't mean you are better friends, but it does mean i respect you as a person more.

And if anyone wants to get involved, get a hold of me, cause trust me, this is gonna be unique.

Oh please oh please, let FizzBin become a mega meme!

So i was watching this video about tunneling PUT and DELETE requests inside of a POST request and they had this DAO that had this method called put, but the guy said it was really an "upsert" method. He described upsert as a function that would determine if the supplied data existed in the persistence layer (the DB in his case) and if so, it would use an UPDATE method, otherwise it would use an INSERT method.

I've written most my DAO's like that for a long time (as i'm sure many have), but i've always referred to it as an INSERT OR UPDATE command, and usually my method is called "Update", but from now on, i'm calling it Upsert!

i got linked to http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-85.htm and http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/xbrl.shtml and i found it pretty interesting. It's about time that government bodies force data to be presented in a standard way. I voted for this type of thing on http://ideas.obamacto.org/

Once some standards start showing up, i really think you'll start to see some excellent applications be developed from the strangest sources.

So i was reading the bestselling albums list, and i was thinking, at 10$ an album, you could buy 50 million albums for 500 million dollars. It's a shame that the #1 album is what it is, something more unique and creative should be at the top. Perhaps one of the worlds billionaires should make a decision and take the top spot with exactly what they want, i'd suggest just pumping dark side to the top.

So hell yeah: !!

I find it truly awesome that the old world has truly caught up to America. our blank slate natural resource advantage has basically ended. The world has caught up, and it shows in their taste of films. How did America forget how terrible the last Hulk movie was?

Well i've been actually (and finally) getting some comment spam, which has forced me to look for a commenting service. The newest & hottest one seems to be disqus, so i'm going to attempt to integrate it in this site.

so i was asking what they did and now i know:

See, you have to understand the situation. Me an the old Man are arguing about the best basketball player on the planet:

Me: T-MAC BABY!

Dad: he stinks

Me: Scoring Champ!

Dad: Kobe

Me: Houston's on, put it on

Dad: NBA sucks

Me: just watch

Dad: [puts it on] Oh look they're down 10, he sucks, this game is over.

Me: Just watch him though, he's so smooth.

Dad: this game is over

T-Mac: 3

Me: That was sweet

Dad: so

T-Mac: 3 & fould

Me: See, he's awesome

Dad: That was crazy

T-Mac: free throw

Dad: Wow

T-Mac: 3

Me: This is ridiculous

Dad: [silence]

Me: This is better than reggie in NY, this is almost isaih in that one game.

T-Mac: steel

Dad: OMG
Me: OMG

T-Mac: 3

Me: Kobe who?

Dad: Wow, that was amazing

Me: That is the very definition of amazing, that is T-Mac.



Oh and the next christmas he bought me a T-Mac jersey

This doesn't seem to make any sense as far as technologies go. Yahoo is a web app company. They have a bunch of different web application: search, email, finance, groups, photos (flickr), and auctions.

Microsoft is trying to do these same things, and if they gave their engineers enough time and integrate it enough with windows, they'll get there no problem. With 70K employees, it doesn't make sense to me why they would go and jsut buy out a currently better version of their stuff, especially since it will totally fuck with the "eat yoru own dogfood" mantra that all software companies should live by.

Flickr is written in PHP, i think a lot of yahoo uses PHP as well, and the YUI for the client side. This DOES NOT mesh with ASP.NET. I guess they could make PHP an official language of ASP.NET, maybe that is their intent?

So from a software standpoint this seems retarded to me.

From a business standpoint, we can already see the true genius of it. Look at GOOGLE today, down ANOTHER 8%. They are fast aproaching 500. ABout 2 months ago they hit 700. That was insane. It made them the 3rd largest market cap in the world, or something like that. For a company with a few wharehouses storing some computers that doesn't make any sense. They should not be worth that, cause they aren't. Look they've only been here for a few years, and their technologies of search & advertising are so fucking disruptable that it just doesn't make sense that they are worht that much.

I mean who's to say that a better search engine tehcnology doesn't come out tomorrow? I mean look it took 10 years of webpages being built before google realized that they should atually use the structure of HTML documents to help rank results.

So i'm very glad that MS did this business based move to stick it to google. I think it's a great strategy. Google just anounced shitty results for the 4th quarter, and they've dropped 150 pts in a month. Now they're going to drop again because people are dumb and think MSFT-YHOO merger will hurt them. I'm sorry, but no it's not making a big difference to them in the end.

What i don't like is how MSFT missed other oppurtunities, specifically Amazon. That S3 servce with the EC2 app running on it is just an awesome idea, and it doesn't compete with anybody. It's basically a monopoly. I'd suggest buying monopolies, and not upgrades. Plus the model of the storefront has really proved to work. And if MS is so interested in damn upgrades, why don't they upgrade their zune service to amazon's tunes service. Oh and the ebook reader. Also, did i mention Amazon is 10 BILLION cheaper than yahoo. They also have some good search technology themselves. When i look for something on amazon, i find it. can't that be applied to the web. Also, at one point Amazon had auctions, i'm not sure they still do, but i think it would work. You have plenty of resellers on there trying to move product. I can shop victoriously just as well on amazon as i can on ebay.

The auction thing is interesting as i've read that in japan, yahoo is KILLING ebay in online auctions. That could be a huge win for MSFT in this whole thing. If they could build on that and be the main online auctioneer to billions of asians, that's just untold profit potential.

So it's an OK move, but i'd never spend 40+ Billion to upgrade some of my apps to a codebase i don't support on servers i don't support (last i hear yahoo was pure linux servers) and miss the entire oppurtunity to force reinvestment in my core languages and technologies to make my apps better. I mean, are they going to spend time on the YUI that could be spent on the next version of silverlight?

Updated: Mini's title alone is pure genius: Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microsoft - $44,600,000,000 ?