Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. Blink By Steven Moffat “Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink. Good Luck.” They are called the Weeping Angels. But they’re not…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor: Day Two – You Will Be Upgraded
Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. Rise of the Cybermen・The Age of Steel By Tom MacRae The TARDIS is dead. The Doctor and his companions discover themselves on a parallel earth, complete with Zeppelins. Every person wears…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor: Day One – Are You My Mummy?
Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. The Empty Child・The Doctor Dances By Steven Moffatt A little boy appears outside, ostensibly looking for his mother. He’s wearing a gas mask. “Are you my mummy?” he says in his…
Read moreGroupThink(tm) – Some Initial thoughts on the Calgary Election.
Many on the so-called “Liberal” and “Left of Centre” side of the spectrum have certainly treated me as an enemy. I’ve been told, by one socialist nitwit, that I was, (and I quote verbatim) “… no better than a rapist and murderer,” because I stood firm on an issue of strong personal conscience. Such statements,…
Read moreWhy I’m Supporting Naheed Nenshi.
Naheed Nenshi is far from perfect. Just like everyone else. He gets tired like you and me, he gets grumpy at times, just like you and me, and, just like you, he makes mistakes. He is also, as far as I can tell, quite, shall we say, “Liberal” on may of his personal beliefs. He hasn’t confirmed this to me, but I’m making that assessment of his ideological slant based on some of the things I’ve heard him say.
Read moreExcel and Sharepoint – Revisited
A few months ago, I wrote this blog entry here where I talk about logging into SharePoint, verifying a particular file exists, checking for a lock on the file, and informing the user of the result. Well, after much ado, I finished it. With a lot of swearing, cursing, and hating of SharePoint in general. What…
Read moreEverybody has an Amway Story
Everyone has an Amway Story. What’s yours?
Read moreExcel VBA, SOAP, XML and SharePoint – Verify a File Exists (Updated July 25, 2013)
This last week I have been hard at work on a project for a client. Essentially, the client needed an excel macro which would accomplish this:
1. Open a worksheet found in a predetermined location on a SharePoint Server.
2. Do some stuff with it.
3. Save the worksheet back to the SharePoint Server.
It seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? SharePoint is Microsoft, Excel is Microsoft, you’d think the two would talk to each other easily; or that Microsoft would build in various classes and methods associated to make linking Excel to SharePoint simple.
Read moreA Solution
Unlike many on the loony left, I like to deal with solutions. Many solutions I suggest, of course, get dismissed, or attacked, or ridiculed by the left on one level or another, but that is, sadly the nature of the left today.
Read moreIn Terms of Customer Service, @westjet Kicks in the Afterburners
I admit it. I hate packing. I hate everything to do with packing. I hate unpacking more. Unpacking after a vacation is, after all, such a depressing thing to do, because it means that life, along with all the included trials and tribulations associated with it, is returning. Packing sucks mainly because, invariably, I forget…
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