Category Archives: General

I got a new hard drive delivered by UPS today. Car Accessories.com ordered it for me. http://www.caraccessories.com It is a 250 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive. I copied my Windows XP operating system onto this new drive … Continue reading →

I am in the process of recovering from yesterday’s hard drive disaster. It is very upsetting to have another hard drive go bad when this already happened in July. I recovered most of my data and all client data. Today … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, the hard drive on my computer is going bad again. My computer froze shortly after I booted up this morning. When I rebooted I heard noises coming from the drive and got the blue screen of death. Fortunately, the … Continue reading →

Although it is fairly easily to get a single query string value, I recently found it was very difficult to get the entire querystring which I wanted to include in an error report. In order to store the querystring in … Continue reading →

I don’t like how my voice sounds when recorded with a PC microphone so I ordered over $500 of audio equipment. I bought a PreSonus Firebox 6×10 FireWire Recording Interface, a Shure SM58 Dynamic Handheld Microphone, a Sony MDR7506 Large … Continue reading →

Yesterday I spent the most time working on some complicated SQL queries. I learned how to use table aliases to reference the same table twice. My query was returning multiple records for a customer because some customers had multiple addresses. … Continue reading →

I’ve been spending so much time chatting with YouTube celebrities on Stickam that I’ve decided to put the time to good use and do some programming with the Stickam API. The Stickam API allows you to determine if a user … Continue reading →

Yesterday I visited the Smithsonian Natural History Museum rather than hang around the National Book Festival. The 2006 National Book Festival was pretty boring. You could only buy books by the featured authors, stand in a long line to have … Continue reading →

Tomorrow I am going to the 2006 National Book Festival on a bus trip sponsored by the James V Brown Library. I will be out of town for the entire day and will not be able to get any work … Continue reading →

Today I received in the mail ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies and Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies. I like reading Dummies books because they are a good way to get an introduction to a subject without spending a lot of time … Continue reading →

Tonight I tried a version of Linux called dyne:bolic. You can burn this version of Linux onto a CDROM and run the entire operating system from the CDROM. All of its multimedia tools worked pretty well on my system. I … Continue reading →

Today I upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake Linux 9.2. I found some welcome improvements. My sound card is now working. My built-in network connection is working so I can connect to the Internet over Verizon DSL. However, I did … Continue reading →

I recently bought a LogiTech USB Desktop Microphone because my voice sounds funny when I try to narrate a screen capture video. Unfortunately, my voice still sounds strange when I record it using this new microphone. It may be that … Continue reading →

Today I did some work on WordPress Theme customization. I added a topic on this subject to my notes. I created a custom snapshot image for the WordPress Theme Picker and I documented how to change the header image and … Continue reading →

I recently bought the Philips SAA 7130 PCI TV Card to capture video on my PC. I needed this in order to import some videotape of Linux running on my Playstation. This video capture card works extremely well with both … Continue reading →

I have created an ASP.NET version of my script to document a database design using queries of the information_schema.tables. This required dynamically creating an unknown number of datagrid controls, one for each table that would be found. To do that … Continue reading →

Today I learned how to do some Internet Explorer hacks to deal with differences in how Cascading Style Sheets are handled in other browsers and Internet Explorer. The problem I ran into is that I wanted to absolutely position a … Continue reading →

Yesterday I bought TechSmith’s SnagIT Screen Capture software. I plan to use it to make tutorial videos and screen capture videos. I will be able to create a video to show a client how to use a web application or … Continue reading →

Today I learned how to use the Response.ContentType property to cause the browser to open an ASP.NET page as a Word document in the Rich Text Format. I know how to do this in ASP to cause an Excel spreadsheet … Continue reading →