29-XII-2008.

Just a thought. If one makes a last wish, it can be as stupid as one wants. It doesn't matter. It won't change the stature, the opinion of the people, and there's no regrets. The "I wish I chose differently" is not going to happen, this was the last one. Just go for it.

I'm trimming my beard trimestrally... and somehow I allowed myself to be talked into skipping it once. It grew luxuriously, in the near perfect ballance of my regular brown and white (the „gray“ wouldn't apply, it's white... or „sed“, as is the specific expression in serbian for hair-which-lost-color).

In response to the wunderkind of UA, about peculiarities of TSQL:

cSQL = "select * from VRP_CONTACT where [CONTACT CONTACTID] = '" + crsrs.contact_opportunity_contactid + """

Brackets around identifiers are SQL Server's way of handling illegal names.

I suppose the fact that I haven't been coding in a while, and SQL Server was never actually in my skill set leads to all sorts of new problems for me!

But bracketed names in SQL weren't illegal at all :).

You're in for quite a ride... specially when everything looks fine for quite a while, and then you stumble upon something you thought trivial... for example, val("423blabla")=423 in xBase languages since forever. SQL server will bang trying to cast() that as an integer. Or... but you already know that fox has better string cutlery than m$ Office and SQL server taken together. I've caught myself just dragging the data into fox, grinding them there and pushing them back - easier than to do there.

At home, Go was in pivnica with her classmatess, probably the last conference before the doček. Made a bunch of photos which I got later. I actually know one of the guys, at least knew his mother (deceased years ago), who was the largest girl in VIII₂ back then, she could carry each of us in her teeth.

She made pihtije. I'll keep trying to make a perfect photograph of it for many years, and while I got many weird results, I haven't made one which would convey the substance of it. Came close several times, though.

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Mentions: doček, fox, Gorana Sredljević (Go), Majkrosoft (m$), pihtije, pivnica, UbiquAgora (UA), VIII₂, in serbian

29-XII-2008 - 31-X-2025