October 30, 2003

Why 'Chaos Magnet'?

I've come to realize that the name of this blog can be somewhat misleading. I mean, most of the time I'm talking about politics in some way, so with a name like that, it may seem like I'm an anarchist or something, but I'm really not.

The name, Chaos Magnet, really refers to the progression of my life. Nothing, but nothing, ever goes smoothly. Not that I have a terrible life, of course. Quite the contrary. I have a wonderful wife, a great son, and a nice house. I'm employed, and reasonably healthy. And I'm extraordinarily grateful for all of those things.

But I am a walking example of the Pauli Effect.

The Pauli Effect was named after physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Pauli had an interesting tendency to adversely effect experiments and machinery in the vicinity. Well, maybe "adversely" is the wrong word, but whenever he was around, the results were always strange. Once, a scientist friend wrote to him to say that he was thinking of him that afternoon because an experiment has gone awry for no discernable reason. It turned out that Pauli had been passing by on a train at that exact moment.

That, in a nutshell, is my life.

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Comments

Hi Nick. Love your philosophy.

Can you use 2 words to justify the incredible effort to transition to .net and quit with ASP.

If yes show me the direction for the first step.

I grew up with your ASP from scratch...since 2000 (italian version...)

Posted by: marco at December 20, 2004 02:44 AM

I'm working with ASP 3.0 form Scratch,your book, and whenever I try to get something into the Outpost database,it says"
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an updateable query." exactly.What's wrong?
(sorry if i posted at the wrong place)

Posted by: Private at January 6, 2006 11:47 PM
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