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From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't
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Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately
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First, always keep the wrapping, even the little twisty ties that keep the wires tidy. Keep the paperwork and the CD's - and I try to open the tamper-proof stickers with a sharp knife so that I don't rip the paperwork. I'm getting very good
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Don't believe anything you read today. I know better, but I still forgot the date and believed Daniel had sold his company . His post was very well done, but I still think my old April Fool's Joke was better. Back in 2005 it was more believable
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LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.. "What's for dinner, Mom?" Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they
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I was having loads of fun getting a "borrowed" web service running on the staging server yesterday. As with all code that you take without asking, there are always.. shall we say, "hiccups". Apparently every line in the web.config
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I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People
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As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you
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Newbie tip. This is good: if (error.Contains("Declined")).. Not so much: if (error.IndexOf("Declined") != -1).. Guess which seems to be more common in code P.S. Yes, I have old code with examples of the latter. Doesn't count. ASP.NET
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To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool ... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook
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Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's
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This was interesting - I had a uniqueidentifier as an output parameter from a sproc and wanted to put it into a Guid. Guid guid = (Guid)sqlCmd.Parameters["@UserID"].Value; No. That throws System.InvalidCastException : Invalid cast from 'System.String'
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I'm quite looking forward to reviewing links between my sites and others, and applying XFN's rel="me", rel="friend" etc. Read more about XFN and check out this cool video from Google (via shoemoney).
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My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month
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