Over the seven days leading up to the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who (November 23, 2013), I am a selected story from the revived series and reflecting on it. The Pandorica Opens・The Big Bang By Steven Moffatt Stories from the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons of the revived Doctor Who series are going to be…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor – Day 4: “Hello, Sweetie!”
Over seven days, I am watching and reflecting on one Doctor Who story from the revived series. Silence in the Library ・Forest of the Dead By Steven Moffatt A library that encompasses an entire planet. It’s deserted. Millions are saved, but there are no survivors. A mysterious woman seems to know The Doctor very intimately,…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor – Day 3: “Blink and you’re dead.”
Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. Blink By Steven Moffat “Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink. Good Luck.” They are called the Weeping Angels. But they’re not…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor: Day Two – You Will Be Upgraded
Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. Rise of the Cybermen・The Age of Steel By Tom MacRae The TARDIS is dead. The Doctor and his companions discover themselves on a parallel earth, complete with Zeppelins. Every person wears…
Read moreThe Week of the Doctor: Day One – Are You My Mummy?
Over seven days, I’m watching a selection of stories from the rebooted Doctor Who series, and reviewing them in celebration of the 50th anniversary. The Empty Child・The Doctor Dances By Steven Moffatt A little boy appears outside, ostensibly looking for his mother. He’s wearing a gas mask. “Are you my mummy?” he says in his…
Read moreGroupThink(tm) – Some Initial thoughts on the Calgary Election.
Many on the so-called “Liberal” and “Left of Centre” side of the spectrum have certainly treated me as an enemy. I’ve been told, by one socialist nitwit, that I was, (and I quote verbatim) “… no better than a rapist and murderer,” because I stood firm on an issue of strong personal conscience. Such statements,…
Read moreWhy I’m Supporting Naheed Nenshi.
Naheed Nenshi is far from perfect. Just like everyone else. He gets tired like you and me, he gets grumpy at times, just like you and me, and, just like you, he makes mistakes. He is also, as far as I can tell, quite, shall we say, “Liberal” on may of his personal beliefs. He hasn’t confirmed this to me, but I’m making that assessment of his ideological slant based on some of the things I’ve heard him say.
Read moreExcel and Sharepoint – Revisited
A few months ago, I wrote this blog entry here where I talk about logging into SharePoint, verifying a particular file exists, checking for a lock on the file, and informing the user of the result. Well, after much ado, I finished it. With a lot of swearing, cursing, and hating of SharePoint in general. What…
Read moreMetrics Tracking Application
The Issue: The customer is a data management company for a number of large customers in a very large market sector. As their customers had a large amount of documents being checked out and checked in, updated, maintained, indexed, and, where necessary, destroyed, the customer needed a distributed application for data entry which could have…
Read moreExcel Merge Macro
The Issue: The client used SharePoint to distribute data entry across a number of different locations. Each location would update the data in an Excel workbook, and the customer needed that data integrated into a centralized Excel workbook to manage their inventory database, from which would be uploaded and synchronized with a Magento-based eCommerce platform….
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