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Monthly Archives April 2006

Visiting Jacob Johnson

Raleigh has some real hidden gems, and the Old City Cemetery is one of them. Buried (no pun intended) in the half-beautifully-restored, half-decrepit historic Oakwood part of the city, the Old City Cemetery is one of the county’s oldest burial grounds - and the resting place of many prominent citizens.
A large stone at the [...]

Posted 30 April 2006 † Mike § Blog ‡ Comments (2) °

Vigenere, SQL 2000 style

For all of you geeks out there … I decided to write a SQL Server 2000 function that would do Vigenere encryption and decryption. Here is an example of how to call the function (Kryptos style):
select dbo.vigenere(‘BETWEENSUBTLESHADINGANDTHEABSENC’, ‘PALIMPSEST’,‘KRYPTOS’,1)
select dbo.vigenere(‘EMUFPHZLRFAXYUSDJKZLDKRNSHGNFIVJ’, ‘PALIMPSEST’,‘KRYPTOS’,0)
And here is the code for the function itself:
create function dbo.vigenere (@text varchar(4000),@key varchar(4000),@shift varchar(4000),@direction [...]

Posted 28 April 2006 † Mike § Blog ‡ Comments (0) °

Tagged for tunes

So I was tagged by Mini Nerd. And in this tag, I have to set iTunes to shuffle (its normal state of being on my computer), and use the songs it picks (in the random order it picks them in) to respond to the following questions:
Q) How does the world see me?
I’m Glad There [...]

Posted 27 April 2006 † Mike § Blog ‡ Comments (0) °