Al’s Blog

This is a great stored procedure you can use to generate SQL insert statements from your data. Kind of like how my SQL Data Export did some years ago, but this runs from inside SQL so is potentially a bit more portable.

“Two Seaworld penguins flying out of San Diego airport were sent walking through the metal detector” from BoingBoing
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Google Maps UK has now gone live. This gives you a great alternative to using multimap, streetmap, the RAC, etc and ebbs away at the market share of products like Autoroute.
Given the satellite map integration that Google recently added to their US versions, it won’t be long before we can expect that here too (not [...]

Following on from last years Bush vs Cheney flash animation comes this fantastic animation.

Useful collection of string formats for .NET
String formatting in C#

One of the RSS Feeds I subscribe to is the Quotes of the Day service which does what it says on the tin. Here’s a few of my recent favourites.
L. L. Henderson
“Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I [...]

Whilst I remember, here’s the link to a neat Flash map I did showing where Ade and I hiked last September.

So it’s late in the day and i’ve been working on the darned SQL Server Reporting for my latest project most of the day, but i’m sure that i’ve found a bug, rather than simply got confused.
I’ve got a report with a bunch of controls whose visibility i’d like to control from a parameter. Not [...]

If you’re running Firefox and want to stop those darn popups which are getting more clever and avoiding the built-in popup blocker, install this extension. It blocks all popups by default, allowing you to whitelist just those sites that you allow. It’s still in beta, but when you test against http://www.popuptest.com/ nothing appears (WARNING: If [...]