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This from my friend Cory. I thought it was funny enough to share.

Countries That Did Not Make the Axis of Evil Feel Snubbed

ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA SYRIA FORM AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL

Cuba,Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs

Beijing (SatireWire.com) - Bitter after being snubbed for membership In the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address.

Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best."

Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.
"They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool."

THE AXIS PANDEMIC

International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, within minutes, France surrendered.
Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the Axis of Somewhat Evil, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the Axis of Occasionally Evil, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs Filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America, while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the Axis of Countries That Be Allowed to Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick.
"That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay," accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.

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Well, we're closing in on the weekend. Damashita has continuing ed classes for her massage practice both days, so it's just us guys. Tentative plans are to go see Cadmus and his troupe (which i thought was the Cabiri, but is actually the Corybante) perform at the Whirligig Children's festival on Saturday from 3:30 to 4:00. Will have to see who else might be interested in coming along- Christine would, but will be working. Might have to try to hook up with revseandoe, but since he's single and has no kids, he might not be interested in being in a place full of parents and rugrats- not nearly enough available wanton females would be my guess.
We'll have to see. Next week's a short work-week, since my mini-vacation starts Friday; as is the one following it, since I don't go back until Wednesday. Hoping to make the Merchants of Deva party at Norwescon, even though we're not doing the whole con, and if we succeed, maybe even manage to meet AutumnGray Then there are upcoming events- my birthday (which won't be much) and the GBS concert at the Showbox later in the month (the 24th), and that pretty much takes care of April. Wow. Not even into the month yet, and I'm already working on exit strategies.
Enough babble for now. I'll try to have something relevant to say without the continual flow of plugs for interesting events and gratuitous name-dropping of local LJ friends.

UI Prototype for Search tool

This is a prototype of the tool i was talking about yesterday.
My thought processes now are to try doing it with a Visual Basic wrapper for the SQL calls, but since i'm not a programmer i'm leaving it open to input from anyone with programming skills who might be inclined to help out.
Just a few notes of clarification- this is presently contingent upon being already logged in, and will then query for the user's interests to populate the search drop-downs, and the ComboBox will also allow for text entry (so a user isn't locked into just things on hir interest list- and in the case of NOTs it'd be weird to search on one item in hir list but force the second element to also come from that list). Boolean is also a dropdown, the checkbox should be pretty self-explanatory- and unless it's checked, will need to run some sort of command on the backend to drop the results table from each query just to clean up after itself and keep the database uncluttered.
Presently, i'm thinking about developing this for Win32 and then perhaps expanding to encapsulate it into a web form, simply because making it a standalone application lets me control who has access to it during testing, and if something is fouled up is less likely to be a big mess than opening it up to everyone right away.