Posts tagged “time”

Longitude

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.

Eddie

Eddie

On eddies in the space-time continuum

Daylight Savings Time

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

Visual Basic and Crystal Reports

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

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

Time

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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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.