Solitary Man

C – Am – F – G I got my first allergy Somethin’ bad happened to me I think it’s somethin’ you’ll understand Makin’ dinner for one Lord knows it ain’t no fun Drinkin’ my beer all alone [chorus] [F] I never thought I’d [G] see The [C] day...

Phototropism in Action – Tomato Plant

I finally got this video to work. It’s an example of how a plant (a tomato in this case) will bend itself toward light in an effort to maximise its photosynthesis. Ok, let’s see if this works: This was taken with a D300, 1 shot per minute, from about...

Eastern Wind

While I’m at it, I might as well post another song that I made with the orchestra plugin. This one was supposed to have a middle-eastern sound to it, but also have a nice driving drum beat. The actual beat of the drums is pretty close to what I...

Piano Song

I never posted this song up here, but I tend to want to listen to it sometimes, so I thought a nice easy way to get to it would be nice (FTP is annoying sometimes).  Basically, this is a song I wrote to play with a new orchestra plugin...

VB.NET DateSpan Class

Tired of writing code to find the years and months between two dates? ”’ <summary> ”’ Provides an easy way to get the number if years and months bewteen two dates. ”’ </summary> ”’ <remarks></remarks> Public Class DateSpan    Dim _Years As Integer    Dim _Months As Integer  ...

Political Comments on March 25, 2008

Clinton Admits that she ‘Misspoke’ about her trip to Bosnia. Either you intentionally embellished (lied?) about the trip, you forgot what happened, or you believe something happened and it didn’t. In any of those cases it’s not something I would expect in my future President....

How to Get the Date of a DateTime in SQL Server

Pretty simple really. Try this SQL: SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), GetDate(), 101); or SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(20), CAST(‘2008-04-04 16:07:07.920’ AS DateTime), 101); If you need to use it in a comparison you can easily do something like WHERE CONVERT(nvarchar(20), MyDateColumn, 101) BETWEEN @DateFrom AND @DateTo Enjoy!...

Replace the Headlight Bulbs on a 2001 Ford Ranger

On my truck, a 2001 Ranger, I first have to remove a little plastic plate that is above the headlight. It comes off after removing three small bolts on top. Remove that plastic and you’ll find two metal tabs behind the headlight housing (the glass part). If you pull...

Political Comments on March 20, 2008

Clinton Clinton’s current notion that Michigan voters will be disenfranchised if Obama doesn’t agree to a re-vote in Michigan is ridiculous. Its transparency is so blatantly obvious, how can anyone not see right through it? She didn’t seem very concerned with it back in New Hampshire. (Reference needed: Basically...