Posts Tagged '2008'

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008)

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RottenTomatoes.com has it at 37%.
I
say that is about spot-on… I love Simon Pegg in most of his roles and
say that he did as good a job as he could given what he had to work
with. I never read the book on which this movie was based, so I can’t
say how closely it stuck to [...]

Amos Lee: Last Days at the Lodge

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I am not very familiar with Amos Lee and his catalog of music, but what I am hearing from his latest album “Last Days At The Lodge” are fairly mellow, R&B inspired songs that resonate with something personal to Lee. Apparently, he wrote all the songs that appear on this album, which I applaud. You [...]

MSN Dream Car Challenge

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I have entered the MSN Dream Car Challenge, where I have the chance to win… something. I don’t know, I didn’t read the rules. I signed up for some free Microsoft Points I may get some more points too, if you vote for my car. So, get voting already.

Also, you can find it here: Dream [...]

My Blog’s Graph

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I was reading Griner’s Blog over at TheSocialPath.com and his latest post had an interesting image of a graph the blog. Of course, I got curious and decided to graph out my blog using this cool web page graphing site:
Webpages as Graphs

I am not sure what exactly it all means, but it sure looks purty.

Updating ActiveX Datagrids in QTP

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In my recent testing efforts, I have comes across a desktop windows form (written in VB6) involving updating a data grid and then calculating another field’s value based on those updates. In order to achieve this functionality, the development staffs implemented two events (AfterColUpdate and LostFocus) that, when triggered, would fire off the calculation method.
None [...]

Using QTP to Connect to an Oracle Database with Instant Client

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Need a light-weight ODBC connection to an Oracle database for you QTP scripts? Oracle Instant Client is just the ticket, assuming you have Oracle version 10g for your database. Please read the information provided by Oracle to make sure Instant Client is right for your needs.

Be Kind Rewind

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“Be Kind, Rewind” by Michel Gondry was an imaginative adventure starring Mos Def, Jack Black, and Danny Glover. Being a fan of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and Jack Black, I was expecting an off the wall comedy explosion with a unique narrative style. I was not disappointed by the imagination, but a little [...]

More Proof of the Birthday Bonanza

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More photographic evidence of the Birthday Bonanza!

Get Smart

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After a busy weekend or partying, house-cleaning, and hosting, Brandy and I went to relax at the theaters. We obviously went to see “Get Smart” according to the title of this post. Here is a brief synopsis:
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is a CONTROL Analyst who dreams to be a field-agent, working alongside his favorite agent, [...]

The Birthday Bonanza

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Brandy and I invited several folks over to the house this weekend to celebrate our birthdays. It was a lot of fun and a big thanks to everyone who came out for the shenanigans.
We fired up the grill and pulled out the drinks for all of our guests. However, I completely underestimated the amount of [...]