I spend a great deal of my time looking at maps - it’s a bad habbit, almost like a compulsive disorder, but I enjoy, for no reason, pinpointing known and unknown locations. When I’m in the compulsive/joyable mode I usually use the good old book version. Not e-book, just book.

Then there are other times when I use the e-book version - typically Norwegian map providers and sometimes Google/Yahoo! Maps. Those are times when I need to find information about a location and typically how to get there.

One day I was looking for an island off the coast of Kristiansand, Norway, and I found this map with a rather strange feautre.

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…and tomorrow I’m going fishing.

By the way, here is probably the most funny lure of them all.

Today, in the pursuit of a free version of SQL Prompt, I visited Red-Gate Software. 

I noticed their slogun “ingeniously simple tools”. SQL Prompt was of course not free (why would I even believe that?), so I did not find what I initially was looking for. Instead I spent a couple of minutes looking at the other tools they were offering. Tools for SQL refactoring, profiling, documentation, diff etc. In my opinion a quite useful lot of SQL utilities.

Then I decided to move over to their forum - and this was what I got:

So, maybe I’m wrong on this one, but “ingeniously simple” doesn’t have to mean it’s “good enough”.

I once worked together with this developer that seems to enjoy (or had a rather bad habbit of) turning every logic expression into its negative complement. That is, instead of properties (or fields) named Enabled or Visible, his properties would be named Disabled or Hidden. It made every expression look like:

If Not Disabled And Not Hidden Then       

    'enabled and visible       

End If

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