Michael Haren’s Wassupy Blog

Archive of posts from 2011

1. I Vote To Close This Meeting Nov 23, 2011
2. Case Sensitivity in ASP.NET Nov 21, 2011
3. LEDs Have Arrived! Nov 16, 2011
4. A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine, Implemented Nov 15, 2011
5. Outlook Tip: Automatically Archive Annoying Meeting Invitation Responses Nov 15, 2011
6. A Candy Land Simulator: The Game Engine Nov 12, 2011
7. A Candy Land Simulator: Overview and Data Representations Nov 11, 2011
8. Please Ignore Me While I Gush Over My New Laptop Nov 10, 2011
9. Installing/Upgrading Memory in a Dell Latitude 6520 (aka MOAR GBs!) Nov 10, 2011
10. Jim, The Pony Taxi, Who Sounds A Lot Like an Engineer Nov 9, 2011
11. How To Give Better Technical Presentations Nov 8, 2011
12. Profanity in Technical Presentations and Business Nov 7, 2011
13. Oh no! I have an interview today and did absolutely nothing to prepare! Nov 5, 2011
14. What I Miss From My Android as a New iPhone User Nov 4, 2011
15. How the Google Search “Do a barrel roll” Works Nov 3, 2011
16. Moving A Hard Drive with Windows 7 to a New Machine Nov 3, 2011
17. iPhone, from a Former Android Enthusiast Nov 3, 2011
18. Campaigning Like a Boss Nov 2, 2011
19. Birth Story: Thing 3 Aug 21, 2011
20. The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio Jul 25, 2011
21. Reseeding *All* Identity Values in a Database Jul 19, 2011
22. Statistics are Misleading At Best, Filthy Liars at Second Best Jul 19, 2011
23. A Ridiculous Jury Duty Questionnaire Jul 19, 2011
24. How to Cook Bacon on a George Foreman Grill Jul 18, 2011
25. Fixing My Hipster Dryer Jul 18, 2011
26. Using Bitly’s “+” Links to Peek at Spam Apr 18, 2011
27. Reduce Noise from Responses To Your Outlook Meeting Requests Apr 15, 2011
28. Speed Matters: How to Talk About It Apr 15, 2011
29. Weather in the Midwest vs. A Typical Shower Faucet Apr 14, 2011
30. Renaming a SQL Server Database Apr 11, 2011
31. How Do I Print [this web page]!? Mar 24, 2011
32. Feature Complete vs. Complete Features Mar 17, 2011
33. Truncating the log of a previously replicated database Mar 16, 2011
34. How Not to Cross the Border, Or “Please Proceed to Immigration” Mar 16, 2011
35. The Curious Behavior of HTML Image Inputs, Or Why “&x=0&y=0” Is Showing Up Uninvited Mar 10, 2011
36. Dear NASA, I Officially Request One Space Shuttle Mar 9, 2011
37. Project Noodle: Terminated Mar 6, 2011
38. Code Isn’t Always the Best Tool Mar 6, 2011
39. How Much Does an Apple Addiction Cost? Mar 3, 2011
40. The Curious Tale of Ms. Talks-Too-Loud Mar 1, 2011
41. Does Tapping the Can Prevent A Massive Fizzy Explosion? Feb 26, 2011
42. 10 Reasons Why We Should Give Google More Credit Feb 25, 2011
43. The Kids’ Castle Feb 23, 2011
44. Hey Zoo Membership Dude: A Letter from Tammy the Tamarin Feb 22, 2011
45. Windows: Improving the Command Window, if Only Slightly Feb 18, 2011
46. How Not To Host an Open House Feb 17, 2011
47. Hyper-V: What are these *.avhd files for? Snapshots? But I have no snapshots! Feb 17, 2011
48. “Host is not allowed to connect to this mysql server” (Solved) Feb 14, 2011
49. Recovering from SQL Server Error: “Syntax Error in TextHeader” Feb 11, 2011
50. Generating Event Handler Skeletons in .NET Feb 8, 2011
51. I Guess YouTuber’s *Do* Advertise Feb 8, 2011
52. The End Of Super Bowl-Style Advertising Feb 8, 2011
53. A Case For Rolling It (All) Yourself Feb 8, 2011
54. An Extreme(ish) Company Planning Conference Feb 7, 2011
55. Is Microsoft Crowdsourcing Search? Feb 4, 2011
56. A Special Message From Thing1 and Thing2 Feb 4, 2011
57. Trouble Creating Windows Services With “sc.exe create” Feb 3, 2011
58. My Favorite Book Ever Feb 3, 2011
59. Idea: Blackmail Yourself to Health Feb 1, 2011
60. User Interfaces And The Fools Who Love Them Feb 1, 2011
61. Google’s Subtly Personalized Search Results Jan 31, 2011
62. How To Cook Occasionally Alongside a Wife Who Cooks Often Jan 31, 2011
63. Thing2 Explodes, Laundry Ensues Jan 25, 2011
64. Automating Minitab with C# Jan 21, 2011
65. Blurry Shapes: Unleashing the Bokeh Jan 11, 2011
66. Windows 7 Tip: Check Box-Based File Selection Jan 11, 2011
67. Presenting: The Parental Anger Scale Jan 10, 2011