"…in a technical sense, Attila the Hun had an active outdoor lifestyle."

At Feministe, Jill writes more about the purity/integrity thing.

I cannot believe that anybody ever links "feminist" with "man-hater" ever, when there are so many better examples of man-hating.  Like the above link, where apparently, men are these poor passive souls who will inevitably sin when brought anywhere near a woman.  How does it feel to be regarded like that?  Like you have no personal agency at all, like your soul's fate depends on the actions of others, like you're only barely human?

Oh, wait.  Women get treated a lot like that, only we don't want to be.

I'm going to change what I say, regarding giving men five trust-demerits first-off.  It's not that I do this because they're men oh noes, it's that I do this because I can't tell the men from the fucking animals.  Once someone can tell me how I can tell, I'll work on my trust filters, mmkay?

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

GoldMine can burn in hell for all I care.

I realise that by posting this publicly, there is a chance in hell that the object of my distinctly poisonous bafflement may find what I've written and comment on it.  To which I say, good.

GoldMine's Infocenter (their version of a knowledgebase) is organised by book, then folder, then page.  So, an example listing:

[B] How To
-> [P] Back up a database
-> [P] Repair a database
-> [F] Windows
-> -> [P] Boot a PC in Safe Mode
-> -> [P] Display all files
[B] Information
-> [F] Palm
-> -> [P] Palm Desktop

In the database back-end, there are two columns, Tsection and Topic.  Topic contains the page names, which is fine.  Tsection contains the book and folder names, in a fixed width format, which is asinine.  Observu, Leganto:

Tsection
How To
How To      Windows
Information
Information Palm

By which I mean to say, what the fuck.

Thank god I know about the substring function in SQL Server, since I don't really have time for an unholy quest to cut out the GoldMine database creator's still-beating heart to recreate the entire thing in SQL Server just to clean it up for the migration.

(To the DB creator – I'll assume, for the sake of sanity, that this was some sort of management decision, and that you're a good person, really.)

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.