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time

Friday Five: Favorite Months

Friday December 11, 2009

June December February September October

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Tiny Time

Wednesday April 18, 2007

Are you a sports fan? Have you ever wondered just how accurate those clocks are? And can a ref — or anyone — really determine a hundredth of a second?

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Timeline WordPress Plugin

Monday October 9, 2006

This domain of mine has had stuff on it for a long, long time — before WordPress or MovableType or even Blogger. The original davidgagne.net is, sadly, lost forever. Some pieces of it have been kicking around on my various hard drives and FTP locations for a decade now. One file that I could never [...]

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Longitude

Saturday March 23, 2002

I finished reading Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel this afternoon. It is a wonderful book.

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Eddie

Thursday June 14, 2001

“There!” said Ford, shooting out his arm; “there, behind that sofa!” Arthur looked. Much to his surprise, there was a velvet paisley-covered Chesterfield sofa in the field in front of them. He boggled intelligently at it. Shrewd questions sprang into his mind. “Why,” he said, “is there a sofa in that field?” “I told you!” [...]

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Daylight Savings Time

Wednesday March 28, 2001

Very Informative: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Daylight Saving Time link via LarkFarm

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Visual Basic and Crystal Reports

Tuesday February 6, 2001

For two days now I’ve been trying to get a report to run from my Visual Basic application. The report calls a stored procedure on the SQL Server from a Crystal Reports ocx in the app. I needed to pass two simple parameters through the ocx, from the app, to the storedproc so the report [...]

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The Timestamp

Monday August 7, 2000

Note that 00:04:47 am is 4 minutes, 47 seconds and not 4 hours, 47 minutes after midnight. <grin>

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Time

Sunday August 6, 2000

I used to be fascinated with the passage of time. I still am, I suppose. My watch chirps at me on the hour to remind me that my time is passing. I love calendars and diaries and journals and notebooks and all things similar. (Have you noticed?!) When I was younger and not as digital, [...]

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