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When I am not listening to my music collection, I usually listen to Pandora, using Open Pandora. Now, I know, no ad’s, how does Pandora make money? Well, I would gladly pay 30 bucks a year for this service, the Open Pandora app should be eaten up by Pandora.
Anyway’s, I kept hearing this song [...]

Cooking. A chore if you will. Usually takes too much time, comes out wrong, and makes a mess of the kitchen. I usually don’t cook and if I do it is something simple. Last week Emily made us Lasagna (which was very good), so I thought I’d return the favor and make Salmon.
I’ve never [...]

Walking through the park today I snapped a picture
 

Now, take a look at this screenshot from Oblivion (the video game)

 
Obviously the lighting is different, but yeah, I think Oregon might be part of the video game :)
Technorati tags: Oregon, Portland, Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls, Video Games, Washington Park

Took a walk through Washington Park today and took some snaps.

http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157600454435349/
 There is the International Rose Test Garden, and the Japanese Rose Garden (I didn’t go into it, 8 bucks??). Nice day for a walk, a lot of people out there though…
Technorati tags: Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, International Rose Test Garden, Roses, Rose Garden, OR

This is a screenshot of a mashup I created today using Microsoft Popfly. Is this the future of application development? Well, short answer, maybe.
It has a long way to go, that is for sure. First off, only services that have “blocks” available are able to be used. There are many services that don’t have [...]

Since everyone thinks I won’t be in Portland long, I figured I would respond the way they would on the Simpson’s, in song.

Technorati tags: 311, Cover, Acoustic, YouTube, Portland, Music, Guitar

Well, I did a little research, and probably the best bet (sadly) is Quicktime Pro. So I put out the 30 bucks and got it. Was able to crop my video, and compress it (from 250 MB to 9 MB!!)
Quick how to crop a mov in Quicktime pro
1) open Quicktime and the movie2) Window->show Movie [...]

In Minnesota, you go to Target, or Walmart, or Shopko, or something else. In Portland, you go to Fred Meyer (wikipedia). Fred Meyer is a grocery store type Walmart but nicer type store. It usually has a Starbucks, electronics area, organic section, etc. There is one a few blocks from my apartment, and there are stores [...]

I have really never been to a Starbucks before, aka “I hate coffee”. Well, there are tons of them around my apt, and since I have T-Mobile hotspot on my phone plan, I might as well use it. Today I ventured out to a nearby Starbucks, laptop in hand.
Since I don’t really like coffee, [...]

In SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services), if you have a measure group, with some measures as AggregateFunction of Sum and some of AverageOfChildern, you will see a red squiggly line on the measure group and if you highlight it (or build the cube), you will get this error:
Semi-additive measure requires a time dimension.
The problem starts [...]