Blog Posts

MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.

Awesome Rock Band (local to northeast Ohio)

Awesome Rock Band (local to northeast Ohio)

An awesome rock band for anybody interested in such things is Redshift. Their song Infamy got a ton of play time on local stations back a couple of years ago (about a year after 9/11). At the time I really liked it …

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Writing a Days of the Week Selector Control

Writing a Days of the Week Selector Control

In this article I'll describe the process I went through to create a control for choosing days of the week. The need driving this is the creation of an admin program that allows certain tasks to be scheduled for certain …

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Mail Call and WebSite Info

Mail Call and WebSite Info

For those wondering how long mail takes, I got 2 letters and 2 packages today (9/10), 3 of which were sent on 8/26 and one on 8/28. So 13-15 days. I had some time today to play around a bit with the look my section of …

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More Stuff To Bring

More Stuff To Bring

Recommended gadgets for soldiers deploying to Iraq including laptops, MP3 players, GPS devices, thumb drives, and digital cameras.

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Bitmask Helper Function

Bitmask Helper Function

I had a need recently to be able to determine if a given position of an integer bitmask was set or not (for example, given the bitmask 0101 which is 5 in decimal, how would you check if the 4 position is set?

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Big Guns

Big Guns

No, not my muscles… We had weapons qualification earlier this week and brought along some other weapons to familiarize with (courtesy of EOD). I got a few pictures and a couple of nice movies of the experience. …

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