I’ve been pretty much head’s down in Access all day so far. I had a rather complicated request for some reporting from our membership database, so I pulled all of that into Access to mess around with some queries and I’ve got it 90% done, but I’m running into a slight roadblock involving the exact logic of what I’m trying to do. Maybe I’m just hungry and need to set it aside until after lunch. 🙂
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Random cantankerous thoughts that I’ve thought this week: People who feel the need to remind you how open minded they are, aren’t. It’s probably time to bail when the association you work for decides that the very core of what it does, isn’t something they can sell to people and their own marketing people start…
I think maybe it’s time to change how the networks broadcast the Olympics. I know this year it seems as though the ratings aren’t what they used to be, and I think it has a whole lot to do with the fact that they are showing things well after they’ve already happened. Come on, this…
I wasn’t all that interested in Google’s new Desktop Search, but when even my wife’s grandmother starts asking about it, well what kind of a techie would I be if I couldn’t say whether it worked or not. So I installed it at work. It indexed my files in about 10 minutes, which is pretty…
In addition to tracking down mysteries of not getting virus def updates or Windows Update automatic downloads this week, I’ve also been working on a few other projects. The first thing I wanted to accomplish was using a trial edition of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 to setup an NT Workstation install alongside my XP machine….
Hey, there’s a new patch, I think, that fixes the Yahoo “problem”. I’ve been away all day so I don’t know the details but I know I couldn’t connect to Yahoo yesterday, I went and looked for an update today, installed it, and now I can connect to Yahoo. Where have I been all day?…
I bit the bullet and installed SP2 over lunch today, since I had to work through my lunch hour anyway. (Long story) Everything went well, and nothing really came across as “broken” in any major way. I had to re-enable the Messenger Service, since I do use “net send” across our internal network quite often….