Stranded

I thought I'd been finding cycling harder again, and a quick check this morning confirmed that yes, my brakes are busted again. Don't buy a bike from Halfords, I'm telling you. This time though, one of the front bits has completely lost it's spring and needs to be replaced. Which is fine, except that they can't give it back to me until Monday. If only it was like car repairs where they gave you a courtesy bike to use while they're tuning yours up.

Not random enough.

I'm putting in a random quote on my journal and friends pages and I'm having a little problem getting it random enough. I couldn't get the SQL server rand() function to work in Access, so I'm using VBs Rnd function to give me a number between zero and 1 which I then use to pick out one of the 115 quotes in my db. So far so good, except that it always seems to come up with the same quote. The seed I'm using for Rnd is Day Month Year Hour Minute Second. I'm lazy so I haven't checked whether it's always generating the same number or it's just the first couple of decimal places which are always the same, but either way, not helpful. Any suggestions?

In other weirdness, last week, no asp page which accessed the database would load from my local server - it just gave me an error message when I tried to open the db connection. Today, as I found out when I went to check the error message to ask you guys about it, it's fine. Who can fathom the ways of IIS?

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Just testing something here. If you can't vote in the poll, but are an LJ user can you comment with your login settings. If possible, can everyone vote according to their login settings - if you're bored you can try them all!

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