Category Archives: Technology

I work in technology everyday, and occasionally I like to share what I’ve found.

Relationship Half-LIfe

My wife and I have now been dating or married for half my life.  Calculate your relationship half-life with “The Relationship Half-Life Calculator”.  It seems like just a moment hon Your birthday: Date your relationship started: Calculate your half-life

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Cloud Services Revisited – Part 3 – Every note in the cloud

In our 3 part series on using the cloud for everyday things you need, we’ve covered backups and passwords, now we’ll cover the simple act of note taking.  The service I’m talking about is a tool/service called Evernote. Evernote is … Continue reading

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Cloud Services Revisited – Part 2 – Passwords

In Part 1 of this three part series, we talked about using Cloud Services for backups.  In Part 2, we’ll talk about how you can use the cloud to keep track of the myriad passwords you end up collecting and … Continue reading

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Cloud Services Revisited – Part 1 – Backups

Last year, I wrote an article about using the cloud for backups and doing it securely.  There have been some big changes in the area since then, and I wanted to return to it and update some of my recommendations … Continue reading

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How I learned to love the cloud (at least for backups)

If you haven’t heard of “the cloud”, you probably haven’t been paying attention to all of the online services that are cropping up online.  If you’ve used Flickr, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, or any of the thousands of online tools available … Continue reading

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Oracle-like ROWNUM in MySQL

Sometimes in MSSQL, you need to mimic the Oracle ROWNUM functionality.  Here are some tips on ways to compress it into a single line of SQL.

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Search Triggers, Stored Procs, and Functions

Code that will search Triggers, Stored Procs, and Functions in MS SQL Server

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Don’t count on playing God – He’s a lot sneakier than we suspected just a couple years ago. – Artificial Intelligence Researcher

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Finding comand line arguments in PHP script

A good way to look for particular arguments passed on the command line to a PHP script. The code below will grab the -f argument and stick it in the $filename variable. <code> $filename = ”; for ( $c=0; $c<$argc; … Continue reading

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Preventing Windows Update reboots

How to keep from getting those annoying restart messages from windows update. Type gpedit.msc at the run prompt you see at the bottom of your list when you click the start button.  This will bring up a new tool. Navigate … Continue reading

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