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How to fix: random exclamation marks in e-mails 20 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
If you are programmatically sending e-mails, you might troubleshoot random question marks and random exclamation marks in e-mail bodies. Question marks are often caused by a character encoding issue. ...
HTML dev tools: testing the hover state of elements in Chrome and Firefox 19 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am
Something I recently discovered, which has been around for at least a year in Chrome and at least a couple of years in Firefox / Firebug: you can preview and debug the hover state in their dev tools w...
Mortgage renewal considerations: principal prepayment privileges and collateral mortgages 18 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
When your mortgage term is up for renewal, there is no shortage of factors to consider. Variable vs fixed, interest rate, and term length are the headline details. Beyond those aspects, there are quit...
12th Street Barbers New Westminster hours of operation 18 Jul 2013 | 10:48 pm
I’ve been going to 12th Street Barbers in New Westminster regularly for over a year now. The barber (there’s only been one as long as I’ve been going) always does a meticulous job and is very pleasant...
Lenovo ThinkPad T430s review 11 Jul 2013 | 09:03 pm
The Lenovo ThinkPad T430s is a light, sturdy, 14-inch Windows laptop that is a great blend of performance, usability, and portability. I had previously never owned a ThinkPad but now, having used this...
Exporting Facebook comments from Comments Box using xid and migrated=1 21 Jun 2013 | 04:42 am
If you’ve been using the Facebook Comments Box on your website for a few years, you might have gone through a migration in 2011 where you simply added a “migrated=1″ parameter as suggested by Facebook...
Cross-domain Ajax calls in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 17 Jun 2013 | 06:16 am
I was working on a site (let’s say www.site.com) that had a multi-page quiz feature. Once you are done with the quiz, the results page tells you how you did but also posts your score to a separate dom...
Connectify alternative: sharing Internet connection wirelessly on Windows 7 14 May 2013 | 08:39 pm
I’d previously written about Connectify as a way to: Share my home wired-only network to a smart phone / iPad / tablet (since those devices can only connect wirelessly) Share one Internet connection...
How to disable WebEx call-back feature 8 May 2013 | 09:46 am
My company uses WebEx a lot for screen sharing and conference calls. When we first had a WebEx account, we quickly learned how fast the costs added up when offering a toll-free call-in number. Enablin...
Google Play / YouTube Canadian online movie rental review 29 Apr 2013 | 07:06 am
Almost 5 years ago, I discovered iTunes online movie rentals and it seemed like a revolutionary new way to rent movies. For a comparable cost to in-store rentals ($4 or $5) you could stream a good qua...
