BlogCoward - misc

misc

Repost: Relational Database vs NoSQL Fanbois: This is basically NSFW, but if you’ve never taken a look, and are in to geek humor, you might want to take a look at this video.; posted @ Friday, January 25, 2013 3:29 PM | Feedback (0)

Another reason I hate ESPN: As the wonderful game crew (or whatever the hell they call their Sunday morning goof-fest) gathered to pick the Steelers-Bengals game, they all picked the Steelers (which is a kiss of death right there), but the kicker came when Berman explained that he was picking the Steelers because Franco Harris was attending the game (it being the 40th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception game). Right. That certainly guarantees it, doesn’t it? That’s the sort of logic that dominates the booyahs in Bristol. Naturally, the Steelers just lost.; posted @ Sunday, December 23, 2012 3:19 PM | Feedback (0)

Cleaning up Outlook RSS Feeds Subfolders: One of the wonderful <sarcasm> features </sarcasm> of Outlook’s RSS Feeds is that you cannot select multiple subfolders and delete them, instead you have to select them one by one. Ever accidentally import an OPML file more than once? Nothing like dozens and dozens of duplicate folders. It would be nice to just nuke everything and start over. Anyway, there is a programmatic way of doing it, which can be found here. Although it references Outlook 2007, the code works with Outlook 2013 (for the most part as I did have to manually delete a couple of them). ...; posted @ Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:16 PM | Feedback (0)

Windows 8 Phone SDK ‘breaks’ Windows 8 on a MacBok Air…: Previous readers will note that I have had…interesting issues in getting Windows 8 to run on a MacB0ok Air, particularly in regards to my Clear Communications 4G USB modem/thingy. I have yet again found some interesting issues with it. One note: if you ever have any question about whether something will work outside of ‘test mode’ in Windows 8, leave it alone. I totally misread the guidance from Clear (which has recognized some issues), and bricked the damn thing. Again. I will also note that trying to restore a computer from WHS from a MacBook Air is essentially...; posted @ Thursday, November 08, 2012 7:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Colin Cowherd inadvertently defines ‘irony’: On his show recently, Colin was doing a not totally unfunny bit about what it would be like on the day when Derek Jeter breaks Pete Rose’s all time hits record at the age of 47 (or something). He was describing Jeter limping to home plate, then remembering that he forgot his bat, limps back to the dugout and falls in and breaks his hip (it was actually pretty funny as delivered). He then said something like, “We know that his falling into the dugout will be sponsored by someone, since it is the Yankees, and the Yankees have someone...; posted @ Friday, October 12, 2012 10:54 AM | Feedback (2)

Feedburner goes bye-bye?: So, apparently I’m not the only one noticing that Feedburner counts are all at zero for the last few days. People talk about it here and here, among other places. I guess I should plan on switching to something else. I’ll just add that to the list.; posted @ Monday, September 24, 2012 10:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Ah, the start of another beautiful college football season: We made it all the way to 6:02 remaining in the first quarter of the Alabama-Michigan game before Kirk Herbstreit reminded us, after a penalty, that there is a “big difference between 3rd and 10 and 3rd and 5.” Brilliant, just brilliant. The only question is, considering this the ‘line’, do we take the over or the under on when John Gruden makes a similar comment on the first Monday Night football game?; posted @ Saturday, September 01, 2012 7:42 PM | Feedback (1)

Finally: Windows 8 RTM on a MacBook Air under BootCamp with Unsigned Drivers: disclaimer: this worked on my machine. It might not on yours, so if you brick it, don’t blame me. In a couple of previous posts, I talked about my somewhat entertaining (if you are easily entertained) attempts to get Windows 8 RC to run under BootCamp without issue, and with all of the software and hardware that I require to use it as my full time machine, which essentially boiled down to getting the touchpad to work with secondary click, etc., FaceTime support, and the ability to use my Clear 4G USB stick when out at client sites, or...; posted @ Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:21 PM | Feedback (0)

No Windows 8 Boot Menu = bad: One of the ‘features’ of Windows 8 is that it boots so fast that you can’t actually get the typical F2/F8 boot menu to show when powering up. Instead, you can, from within Windows 8, tell it to boot into a typical boot menu (where you choose to use last known good, etc.). If for whatever reason your last boot into Windows fails, the boot menu will also show. This is all great, but as my experience with trying to get Clear 4G to run on Windows 8 on a MacBook Air shows, this isn’t good enough. Windows boots...; posted @ Saturday, July 21, 2012 8:35 PM | Feedback (0)

A question of deep philosophical import concerning Taco Bell: Why didn’t they create a version of their Doritos Loco tacos using taco-flavored Doritos?; posted @ Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:11 AM | Feedback (0)

Archives

Post Categories

Stuff