It’s taken me far longer than it should, but I’ve finally gotten my McLane Edger craigslist score in a proper working order. The original issue had always been an awful squealing noise that would totally un-wind the pull cord in Read More
I won’t rant for too long about the great Sham that is Comcast, but remember the big HD TV transition? With Comcast you “didn’t need to do anything”, right – nothing except get some set top boxes for each TV Read More
I use NAnt for a build and deployment tool for databases and OLAP. I wanted to be able to add only the accounts needed per-environment to certain objects on the fly through the script, as they are run on whatever Read More
First, I don’t know why; but it seems like as soon as you add in the word OLAP or Analysis Services to your problem things just stop working as you would normally expect. Problem: I’m using NAnt as a deployment Read More
Not everything I say on Twitter is important, but I thought this was. You should follow me @thegarrettp ifttt.com is really slick 3 http://t.co/3ha12Wpr, testing some social integration #wp
“this is my sweet string” == “dGhpcyBpcyBteSBzd2VldCBzdHJpbmcZ”? Those two are actually equivalent, as proven by Amazon SimpleDB. We started seeing these mysterious strings in our SimpleDB data which is supposed to be a direct upload of SQL data for use Read More
Recently I’ve come across two cases where it appears in the interest of usability, we’ve gone too far and invaded what I thought used to be “boundaries” for UX, and proper accessibility practice. 1. Google Hijacking My Down Arrow Have Read More
The new $20 car licensing fee will allegedly save massive cuts in bus service. The free-ride zone is also being axed, but a new perk also popped up as I was reading this article: http://blog.seattlepi.com/transportation/2011/08/23/is-killing-the-ride-free-area-an-attack-on-the-poor/ Metro plans to hand out eight Read More
This is something that came up not too long after I may or may not have bought a house a while ago. Thought it was worth posting as there are still a large number of frustrated people on the internet. Read More
Yes, ALL CAPS, here is EXACTLY what I want to do: Add new column to google spreadsheet using java api Maybe now that term will be google-able? As with everything handy, it’s impossible to find what you need in the Read More