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Hardwood Floors: Lessons Learned 19 May 2013 | 04:38 am
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 staircased ...
Path Over 2048 Chars Kills Windir Environment Variable 17 Jan 2012 | 12:17 pm
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 got a terrible error...
OCIDescribeAny Can Allocate Memory 12 Jan 2012 | 01:29 pm
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 structures w...
2011 Surrey Candidates for School Trustee 30 Oct 2011 | 12:54 pm
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 ...
2011 Surrey Candidates for Councillor 30 Oct 2011 | 12:51 pm
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 place (out of 8). W...
2011 Surrey Candidates for Mayor 24 Oct 2011 | 12:03 pm
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 candidates f...
Replacing Toyota Echo Rear Side Marker Lights 12 Sep 2011 | 03:54 pm
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 mainten...
Scammed by Dormaster/Promaster 21 Aug 2011 | 05:01 am
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 was naiv...
Blog Content Longevity 15 Aug 2011 | 04:39 am
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 than this o...
Google Snooze Fail 10 Aug 2011 | 04:49 pm
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 releases. To ...
