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Retro: Nice rig, man

Sometimes my own idiocy amazes me. A week or so ago, I took the boys to Rick’s Bakery (best sausage rolls and donuts on the planet, but bad website – horribly broken in Chrome). As we were leaving and getting into the wife’s Armada, I heard the guy next to me, who was also getting [...]

Poetry from a four year old

The other day while driving down the road and admiring the wildflowers that are blooming all over The Woodlands, Harri came up with this little nugget: Roses are red, bluebonnets are blue, and your feet stink too.

My Google Voice invite arrived!

Last night I got my Google Voice invite that I’ve been ever so patiently waiting for, and man is it slick. Setup took about 10 minutes total, and my first test of their transcriber went like so: Which was transcribed to: Hey moron. Let’s see how good Google Voice. Transport sincere garbage that you’re leaving on [...]

Fishing with the boys

This is what it’s all about folks, the picture pretty much tells it all. I took the boys fishing today for the first time in a while, and they slayed ‘em. They each caught at least ten bluegills and four small box turtles. Will caught his first largemouth bass, and a nice one at that, [...]

Wanna see me naked?

Last Thursday night. In San Diego. After the Padres game. On the corner of 4th and Market. A buddy from work (who shall remain nameless) and I are heading back to our hotels from Rock Bottom Brewery (excellent beer), and we are approached by a girl that can’t be more than 20 years old: Girl: [...]

San Diego, here I come!

I’m heading out in a few hours to San Diego for the ESRI User Conference. I’m really looking forward to the conference, tons of GIS stuff, seeing some old buddies, enjoying the weather (damn, it’s hot in Houston this summer), and last but not least, getting some In-N-Out.

Ripping recorded video from a Cox DVR on OS X

Sometimes some of the most entertaining TV you’ll see can come from your local news – especially if you live in Arkansas it seems. And so was the case last Tuesday night. But more about that later. First let’s talk about getting the recorded program off of the DVR so we share it with the [...]

Executing a SQL Server stored procedure in C#

Are you kidding me? I’m a major amatuer at anything .NET, and after some Googling and about 15 minutes of coding, this works. How ridiculously easy. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient;   namespace ExecuteStoredProcedure { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { SqlConnection conn; try { conn = new [...]

I ate it

I just turned the corner from the kitchen to the dining room, and met up with our three year old son, and he hit me with this: Son: There was a booger in my nose. Me: And…what did you do with it? Son: I ate it. Oh, the brutal honesty that is childhood.

Converation Viewer now an official WordPress plugin

I finally got around to getting Conversation Viewer into the WordPress plugins SVN repository. Been meaning to do that for a while. Version 1.0.0 can be had from the trunk at: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/conversation-viewer/trunk/ The writeup and instructions/examples of usage can be found here .