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Dear Census Worker

Daniel — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:35:12 +0000

This is close to what my place might look like now.

On the news today I heard that you guys will knock on doors soon and visit people who didn’t return their census forms. I am unable to return my census form this year, so I am sure you’ll stop by the house to check on me later this summer. The last time we met was 10 years ago. Do you remember me? I was a computer science student at Arkansas Tech, had recently married a local, and we were expecting a baby. Do [...] Continue reading Dear Census Worker

Morning Dew

Daniel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:14:46 +0000

Morning Dew

It is Sunday in late April. When I got up at 7 o’clock, the sun had just started to climb over the horizon. The morning concert of songbirds in the backyard was in full swing. In Europe, this time of day is the closest you can come to the sound of a tropical rain forest. With this exception: instead of parrots and toucans, Europe has robins, chickadees and nightingales.

The morning air is still moist and cool. Every single blade of grass is loaded with dew. I am sitting behind the house absorbing the warm morning sun [...] Continue reading Morning Dew

Tom has gone too far

Daniel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:01:41 +0000

Tom the mouse

When we moved into a country cottage last August, one of the first things we did was to set up a few mouse traps. Reclaiming the abandoned house from the wild was a success. After only a few days we caught several mice of different sizes. The job was done and the house was ours, or so we thought.

It was much later that we noticed a sole survivor. Afraid of baby mice popping up all over the place, we reset the traps and were sure we would get that one fast. But that last mouse was [...] Continue reading Tom has gone too far

What the heck is Twitter?

Daniel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:12:54 +0000

Whether or not you know what Twitter is, I bet I have a few facts you didn’t know. According to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social-networking and micro-blogging service that enables people to send and read messages up to 140 characters long. That’s not much, but in todays fast moving world, many people don’t have time to read much more. Like other social networks, you can follow and connect with people.

So what is twitter good for? There is no way I could list all uses. So I’ll just mention a few. You can use Twitter to stay in touch with [...] Continue reading What the heck is Twitter?

MYSQL: How to make a combination of 2 columns unique

Daniel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:45:29 +0000

Setting up some rules in your MySQL database can save you some programming time. This tip will show you how to make a combination of two columns as unique. Suppose you have a database that records BookTitles and Authors. Just having the Author field unique would not make much sense as every Author can have more than one book. But you also don’t want to have an Author / BookTitle combination entered twice. So here we can make the combination of Author and BookTitle unique.

Execute this MySQL statement to make 2 colums unique:

ALTER TABLE TableName ADD UNIQUE (Column1,Column2);

Replace “TableName” with [...] Continue reading MYSQL: How to make a combination of 2 columns unique

Less is more!

Daniel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:21:19 +0000

Less is more, minpins rule

I come from years of automated advertising-infested auto blogs. Don’t hold that against me. This is my real non-automated blog! But I am a programmer and still think of ways to use my programming experience to make my computer and non-computer work load easier to manage. I wrote my own to-do list script and I am also using several of my own programs to keep up with certain stats I care about. That saves me a lot of time.

So back to the auto blogs I had. [...] Continue reading Less is more!

Une poésie en français

Daniel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:10:18 +0000

Entlang der alten Wege

Today I will share with you: the only French poem I have written. Since I live in France at the moment, I think it’s appropriate to start with that one. I wrote this poem over 10 years ago while learning French in school. I recently published a whole book of my poems. Most of them are in German though. A few are in English. I am sure to write more poems (probably in English) some day. At the moment I work too much to have poetic juices flowing.

Pauvre Enfant by Daniel Garber Sous les arbres dans le pré l’enfant [...] Continue reading Une poésie en français

Twitter – To follow or not to follow?

Daniel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:16:14 +0000

Shamelessly advertising my own twitter account

I am not sure if I should admit this, but… ahh… lets just say I have followed a lot of people. OK, lets make this more clear. I have been a Twitter whore and followed anyone. I later found out that many of the “people” I followed were not even real people. They were just bots, as in automated twitter accounts. So I was following everyone and everything, sounds gross, doesn’t it?

Within a week or two I had over 1000 followers. But I was also following [...] Continue reading Twitter – To follow or not to follow?

un-subscribe and be more productive!

Daniel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:30:38 +0000

newsletters cluttering my inbox

How many newsletters are you getting every day? How many of those do you just archive to read later, but never find time to really go back and read them? How many newsletters seduce you into buying another e-book or money-making software? How many newsletters do you delete from your inbox every day? Do you know what I am talking about? STOP! Sit back and take a breath!

I was subscribed to tons of newsletters and spent who knows how much money buying e-books that were supposed to [...] Continue reading un-subscribe and be more productive!

Play Battleships

Daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:47:55 +0000

Play the classic battleships game for free! But be warned! Those little games can be big time wasters. Oh come on, just one game You can find more cool free games on NiftyGames.com