Azure Charts is a site that a lot of people should know about but don't. Alexey Polkovnikov came up with and developed the site, and I highly recommend checking it out for a few reasons. Solution Explorer One of the trickiest parts about Azure is the mess of products available. There are so many that…
TIL: Slack + SQL Server
No, I don't mean the SQL Server community on Slack---although you should definitely join up there. I have a client whose primary method of communication is Slack. They have e-mail accounts, but hardly use them. They also have no real monitoring solution in place, so I wanted to be able to do some quick checks and,…
Making Music With SQL Server
This is an old post, but I'm turning Thomas Rushton's idea into a lightning talk for the .NET User Group. Basically, the idea is that you can call Console.Beep with different pitches and for different lengths of time, with the end result being music. I'm also going to demo the Super Mario Brothers theme. Here's…
WinHTTrack
I picked up on a tool called WinHTTrack from Dale Meredith's Pluralsight course on reconnaissance (which I will review in a couple of days). The tool has a simple premise: grab website files based on links. When I ran it against Catallaxy Services, it pulled back results based on each link. The app handles subdomains…
Watson Personality Insight & Tone Analyzer
Here’s a fun pair of tools out of IBM’s Watson project: the Personality Insights and Tone Analyzer. Personality Insights For Personality Insights, I decided to put in two separate blog posts. The first blog post is my listing of three essential concepts in economics, written back in 2007. Because that’s only 3101 words and I…
Miata Paid Off
Yesterday marked the last payment on my new Miata. My original plan was to pay upfront with a cashier's check, but the check arrived a few days too late, so I ended up doing a payment plan. Strangely, the loan provider's website limited my payments to 3x the monthly payment, and only allowed me to make two…
ChuWi Vi10 Thoughts
About a month or so ago, I purchased a ChuWi Vi10 tablet. Now that I’ve had the device for a bit, here are my thoughts on the tablet. First of all, dual booting is not a joke nor is it a novelty. It really runs Windows, and it runs Windows pretty dog-gone well, even with…
Weatherstripping Rejuvenated
As soon as I got back from SQL Saturday Cleveland (an event I rather enjoyed), I had to take advantage of the 72-degree weather to work on the Miata. Today's mini-project was around weatherstripping. The weatherstripping on my Miata is old, but not really cracked too badly. It is, however, not nearly as strong as…
Tightening A Convertible Top
This probably won't be a very useful post, but it is something I learned recently and figured I would share. My 1999 Mazda Miata had a bit of a problem recently: the top got loose on one side, up near the latch on the passenger's side. This bothered me for a few days but it…
TinEye
Neat service: TinEye is a reverse image lookup. Give it an image or a link to an image and it will try to tell you where it came from. This is nice for maintaining copyright protection.
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 