Their 15 Seconds Are Up

I really need to implement some kind of category system here at the blizzog.  A blog by a guy from the Midwest who lives in the South and writes software for a living but can actually have a conversation with a real live person about old-school hip-hop, politics, cheezy reality TV, marketing, or fine art really needs to have some way for its poor readers to separate the stuff they want from the stuff they don’t.  Okay, I made that part up about ‘fine art.’  I know nothing about it, but I thought it made me sounds classy. ;)  I’m thinking about tacking on a del.icio.us-like tag system to the blizzog to help sort all of this out.  Maybe this weekend.

I mention that first part about categories and stuff because this post is technology-related.  Those of you not in the biz will have zero idea what I’m talking about, so feel free to move along.  Sorry.  I should have something non-geeky for you here shortly.

Anyway, I have been an avid reader of 15Seconds.com since my days as a baby-fresh ASP developer.  Back in the day I could count on them for really kewl and insightful articles on how to do all kinds of neat stuff with ASP.  However, in the past few years I’ve noticed that their content has started to slide.  It’s really only every now and then that I find something on there that is really useful to me.

Yesterday they hit an all-time low for me with an article, dated January 27, 2005 titled “Moving a Database from SQL Server 7.0 to SQL Server 2000” Uh, WTF?  First of all, this is supposed to be a site about developing ASP or ASP.NET.  While I realize that there are a lot of people who use SQL Server for their development: a.) there are a lot of people who don’t, and b.) those who do are most likely using SQL 2k anyway.  This was a really helpful article……6 years ago!  How lame.

If there are any sharks reading this right now, you need to duck so that 15Seconds.com doesn’t smack you in the forhead as it jumps over you.  You’re welcome.