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Stumbled upon this today
http://search.live.com/macros/sql_server_user_education/booksonline/
Pretty sweet, using search macros, you can search books online..well, ONLINE :)
Here is a search for DATEDIFF
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=DATEDIFF&go=Search&form=QBJK&q1=macro%3Asql_server_user_education.booksonline
Handy little macro if you don’t have SQL BOL installed. You can always search Google or MSDN to find the info, but this seems “scoped” for just what you need for books online, pretty cool if [...]

Tonight, just for the heck of it, I decided to get PHP running on my machine. I am running Vista (not SP1 beta). I already have IIS installed, so that pre-req was taken care of.
First thing, I made sure I had everything turned on..
Start->Run->Programs and Features->Turn Windows Features on or off…

I made sure [...]

Ok, another big difference from Portland. The coffee shops in Madison are few and far between, and there aren’t many Starbucks around, and if there are, they are drive thru, or at Target. And the east side of Madison is really low on coffee shops..
I have been to a couple of shops on the east [...]

Stumbled across this site - http://www.cityofmadison.com/reportaproblem/Potholes.cfm
You can report potholes in Madison. First off, can I just report an entire road? All of 151/East Washington/University from the Interstate to Middleton. And then how about every road surrounding the East Towne Mall. Add into that just about every side street in town.
I swear the roads in [...]

Again with the VBA, working with MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeList objects. How do you load XML? Well MSDN shows you how to do it from an XML file..
Loading from an XML File:
Dim MyIXMLDOMNodeListVar As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeListDim xmlDoc As New MSXML2.DOMDocument30
xmlDoc.Load “c:\myxml.xml”
If (xmlDoc.parseError.ErrorCode <> 0) Then   Dim myErr   Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError   MsgBox (”You have error ” & myErr.reason)Else   Set [...]

So, recently working on some things, I have noticed the HUGE difference between VBA and VB.NET, specifically with turning bytes into bitmaps.. (assume GiveMeBytes() returns a byte array that is a bitmap)
VB.NET:
Dim image As Byte() = GiveMeBytes()Dim memStream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream(image)Dim bitImage As Bitmap = New Bitmap(System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(memStream))
bitImage.Save(”C:\test.bmp”)
 
VBA:
Dim image() As Byteimage = GiveMeBytes()
Dim bitImage
bitImage [...]

Saw a post this morning on Geeks are Sexy, about “Why Geeks Shouldn’t Change For Anybody”, which has a clip from Diggnation (which, I would love to do a show like this, just need someone to do it with).. anyways..
Watch the video:

 
They are spot on. This is exactly right, and it is funny, because [...]

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Best of Bootie 2007 is out! http://bootieusa.com/bestofbootie2007/index.htm
Best of Bootie 2006 was awesome. It reminds me of playing Wii at Brye’s before the Holiday Party last year.. good times..
 
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