141 Eyewear, a product with a purpose

Over the past few years, Tom’s shoes have become well known, hip and trendy. Everyone knows that if you buy a pair of their shoes, they donate a pair of shoes to children in need. I love the philosophy, but HATE their shoes. Personally, I think they look ugly and clunky, but to each their [...]

SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Saving changes is not permitted”

Working in SQL Server 2008 I received this confusing error when editing the structure of a table:
“Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes [...]

Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring [...]

SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved”

Today I was trying to edit the value in a table cell through the query browser in Microsoft SQL Server Management Itudio and I kept getting the following error:
Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved. Do you want to save your changes now?
(Optimistic Concurrency Control Error)
Click Yes to commit your changes to [...]

StatusThis

I admit that I love all flavors of social networks, including spatial once. My current favorite is Gowalla (gowalla.com/users/JoshHighland).
I saw this comic online and needed to share t because this is what my life has begun to look like. This masterpiece is from StatusThis.com, a new web comic site. Please check them out and show them [...]

I got a Drobo!

I have entered into a relationship with a new piece of high tech equipment, Drobo. Drobo is a self proclaimed “Data Robot”. In technical terms its a ASD (Attached storage device) running a custom version of RAID 5. When coupled with a DroboShare, it becomes a NAS (network attached storage) device.
In non tech terms, its [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week.
Things I was right about:

Apple will announce a tablet device
new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2
iPad will run on the iPhone OS
iPad will run iPhone applications
The iPad will have a 10 inch screen (9.7 inches is close enough)
16, [...]

Book review: Crush It

I really suggest that you read this book. I’ve been leveraging social media for years but this book has recharged me and changed the way that I think about several things. It’s a great read.
Order Crush It from Amazon.com for $10!

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

Art imitating life

I saw this and it brought teh LOLz. Thought I would share.  Check out this guys other comics. http://drawingboard.smackjeeves.com/

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