2016-03-19 18:53
Yes, I own a Windows 7 Phone. I have only two regrets:Windows Phone doesn't seem to respect ReplayGain. To be fair, I hadn't heard of ReplayGain when I bought the phone.Windows P… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Having completed the hardwood floor of one small room, there are things I wish I had known in advance.quicklock would have allowed me to remove a few rows and undo a spacing mistake that sta… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
All of a sudden my cmd prompts in Windows 7 had no PATH environment variable. And when I tried to change my path (Right Click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced Settings) I… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The doc is silent on the matter, but my testing shows pretty clearly that OCIDescribeAny is allocating memory and attaching it to the OCIDescribe in/out param.So never reuse OCIDescribe stru… Read More
2011-11-18 15:08
Here is a lightly annotated list of all the candidates running for Mayor of Surrey in 2011. Feel free to leave links, complaints, or a thumbs up for any of them in the comments.See also can… Read More
2011-11-16 16:18
See also candidates for Mayor and School Trustee.Kuldip Ardawa (SCC, BCNDP)Immigrated from England 8 years ago, focus on multiculturalism.Bob Bose (SCC)Elected in 2008 in 7th… Read More
2011-11-12 23:32
See also candidates for Mayor and Councillor.Terry Allen (SFE)Elected in 2008; 2nd place (out of 6).Endorsed by NWDLC (regional trade union).Ijaz Chatha (SCC)Elected in 2008; 6th place (out… Read More
2011-09-13 13:48
I'll start with a few mea culpas:If I had done minimal research, I would have found the dismal BBB ratings, and allegations of fraud (by rival companies, but a warning sign nonetheless).I wa… Read More
2011-09-12 03:55
I had to do a ridiculous amount of research to replace some running lights on my Echo, which by all rights should have been a simple job.Lesson 1:At some point Toyota (during manufacture or… Read More
2011-08-14 16:54
While pondering whether I should delete any of my long-paused blogs I took a look at the visitor stats.
My "current events commentary" blog, with twice as many posts and vastly more words th… Read More
2011-08-10 04:55
With the release of a snooze feature for Gmail I learned that you can extend Gmail with scripts. I also learned that Google is starting to put less effort into polishing the products it rel… Read More
2011-08-08 16:37
Today I noticed that Questrade's address on file for me is only loosely based on my real address. Wrong enough that I would not received my sign up docs if it had been wrong all along.
The… Read More
2010-05-15 05:55
After a multi-day ADSL outage by the hosting company who's name we shall not speak (fixed only after I remotely diagnosed their improperly configured router from within the affected area, an… Read More
2010-02-24 06:44
I have noticed something very strange with Windows XP: When you lock out the current user and let a small child wail on the keyboard, bad things happen.First, the next time you wake up your… Read More
2010-02-21 06:13
Google Reader has started recommending a combination of Christian news and porn to me.I'm not sure what to make of this interpretation of my online activities.It definitely limits the locati… Read More
2009-08-29 04:03
I wonder why big media companies (like the newspapers going bankrupt because no one will pay for anything anymore) are still offering their content in a form that facilitates ad blocking.It… Read More
2009-07-09 18:53
Argh.Much to my dismay, Bluehost treats PostgreSQL as a second class citizen. You can't back up PostgreSQL databases using the standard Bluehost tools, and the Export function in the phpPgA… Read More
2009-07-09 03:13
Just tried Drupal for the first time. Wow - an hour to get a pleasant looking corporate site up, and another two to get things configured and teach someone else how to create content.I will… Read More
2009-06-21 06:26
When you host your email through Google Apps, you can create email aliases that are called "groups". Very recently messages routed via those aliases started to silently drop off the face of… Read More
2009-06-13 16:48
Way back when, pre-2002, I started maintaining an ecommerce website that delivers ordered products via email. This means that customers have to enter their email address during the order pr… Read More
2009-06-06 23:04
After last.fm had the gall to start charging money for their service I had to scramble to find a replacement. Tim Ferris and Kevin Rose talked about thesixtyone in one of their random video… Read More
2009-06-02 04:44
If you live anywhere near the Vancouver (BC) International Airport (YVR) you can now do online reporting of noise complaints. Like for when a plane flies so low over your house it rattles t… Read More
2009-06-01 04:54
I'm not a privacy nut in any sense of the word. I have stupid and largely unused Facebook, LinkedIn, and "whatever my friends are hot on today" accounts, and I don't worry about the informa… Read More
2009-05-24 15:31
It seems that Google is giving up on advancing their automated search technology.Submission 1: After largely deprecating HTML meta tags like keywords and description, Google is now requestin… Read More
2009-04-26 04:57
My primary irritation with App Engine right now is that long running scripts that worked fine on my machine in the SDK time out in the live environment.I initially created a page for GiftFin… Read More
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