stevienova.com

Well, end of the year, here are some stats on my blog.. around 63,000 page loads, and 46,000 uniques up from 35,000 page loads and 22,000 uniques in 2006, almost doubled! posts per month: # December 2007 (17)# November 2007 (16)# October 2007 (13)# September 2007 (21)# August 2007 (24)# July 2007 (31)# June 2007 [...]

One big difference between Madison and Portland is that it is tough to find stuff in Madison, unlike Portland. Portland is a big enough city where it has its own Citysearch and Craigslist is used a lot more. Madison just fits into the “National” citysearch, and craigslist is pretty empty. Portland as the Mercury and [...]

The xkcd comic today says it all, which actually got me thinking about writing this post   Funny, yes. I think sometimes everything just needs to be reset back to zero. I remember back in the day, trying to beat Metroid on the NES and having to leave the NES on for days without shutting [...]

Just recently going back to the dark side, and getting cable again, I have noticed some new iPhone commercials on TV. There is one where they talk about kind of going on vacation, and show you all the things you can do with the iPhone to aide in planning, etc. If you watch closely, you [...]

So, the other day I had to create something in T-SQL that called a MDX query using OpenRowset – this is pretty easy to do, you can query around the openrowset and get the values back you need in a T-SQL Query. This was fine when the MDX query was a static string. The format [...]

Here is my Google Reader shared items link blog – http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10787205546622911766 The RSS Feed is here: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/10787205546622911766/state/com.google/broadcast Check it out if you want to see what I find interesting, mostly going to be BI/Database/Programming posts I find that are useful. Technorati tags: Google Reader, Google, Shared Items, Link Blog

So I read last week you could order pizza via text message now, from Papa Johns. Was feeling like some pizza last night, so I decided to try it out. I already had an online account at Papa Johns, to order delivery, so I went there and checked it out. I set up 4 favorite [...]

Ok, so for some reason you can’t play with adhoc networks, maybe your IT dept locked you down, maybe something else happened, some security software or something jacked your settings. Well, you can use netsh to allow adhoc access again. Maybe you don’t even want to connect to ad-hoc, but you want to run one, [...]

I started reading blogs steady back around 2002-2003, and started my own in 2004. Since I started reading blogs, I have went through the gamut of readers… First I started with SharpReader for a while, a fat client, that was OK..but a lot of feeds had errors.. I then started using RSS Bandit, which was [...]

Like I said previously, I just moved to GAFYD, which is the Google Apps version of Gmail. I needed to move my Hotmail (well, actually Windows Live Domain) emails over to gmail. How do you do this? Well there are a few ways…. #1 – Install Windows Live Mail Desktop, add your hotmail account, get [...]