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Month: December 2011

Technology December 23, 2011May 27, 2012

ShutOff 2000 Update

Good news, all three of you that follow this blog and are interested in my ShutOff application: it’s almost done! Luckily it hasn’t taken me over twelve years to get to this point! Last week I realised that twelve years brings with it a new era: the death of anything before Windows XP, and theContinue reading ShutOff 2000 Update

Canada, News December 20, 2011May 2, 2012

Canadian television debut

30 seconds of pain. Mortifying. Two ways to describe my first television advert on Lloydminster’s local news channel. I did it as a favour for a chartered plane company in town, and when you take into account that I didn’t want to do any lines on camera, the end result wasn’t too bad. To saveContinue reading Canadian television debut

Tasteless Humour December 19, 2011May 2, 2012

This. Is. Awesome.

Speaking of tribute pages, here’s one to the immortal Tom Selleck, sent to me by Aidan. (He also sent me to this Dave Coulier shrine.)

Tasteless Humour December 19, 2011May 2, 2012

Hoff tribute page

Since I’ve moved everything to WordPress, I was able to use a WordPress plugin for my David Hasselhoff Tribute Page, which you can now find here.

News, SQL Server, Technology December 16, 2011February 22, 2019

What I did today

Today at the clinic, we did the second of three phases of network reorganisation. In the first phase, which we completed a week ago, our new server was set up with the EMR software, all data was migrated from the old server, and the vendor remoted in to make sure everything was up and running.Continue reading What I did today

SQL preparation, Technology December 16, 2011April 10, 2012

SQL Preparation, Part the Second

Thus far I have made it through 11 of the MCM videos on SQLSkills.com, as well as the associated demos. There is a large amount of information in these videos, and I’ve been learning a lot. The point of this training next year is to fill in the blanks. I consider my T-SQL skills forContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the Second

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