tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: A Situation - And A Recipe
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-situation-and-recipe.html
Thursday, March 14, 2013. A Situation - And A Recipe. I just got an email. The email says " Your cell phone battery is getting low! I checked my phone, and sure enough, the battery was down to 15%, so I plugged it in to charge during the afternoon so I don't run out of juice before bedtime tonight. Who emailed me? Well, the cell phone did, of course! Actually, it texted me. but let me start from the beginning. Enter the Send SMS Plug-in. Your cell phone battery is getting low! With the special "I'm at wo...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: August 2011
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html
Tuesday, August 9, 2011. So, I finally. There are, however, a couple of things about Netflix Streaming that annoy me a bit, and I wanted to blog about those things. maybe someone from Netflix will read this blog entry and take it to heart. (Fat chance, but a guy can dream, can't he? I'd like better parental controls. Right now all you can do is limit the programs that can be viewed based on the MPAA rating. only allow shows rated PG or less, for example. This is a joke! Scrolling to a certain point withi...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: April 2012
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html
Sunday, April 15, 2012. Google Play Music: it's ALMOST there. Music in the Cloud." The phrase itself sounds sort of like "Pie in the Sky," doesn't it? Well, so far that's kind of been what cloud-based music has equated to. A year ago I blogged about this same thing. This post is about the music portion of Google Play, so I'm going to refer to it as Google Music for now to avoid being ambiguous.). But before I tell you about my Android frustrations, I want to touch on a few problems with the Web player...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: Cox and their "Nerd-Level Wi-Fi"
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2015/04/cox-and-their-nerd-level-wi-fi.html
Thursday, April 9, 2015. Cox and their "Nerd-Level Wi-Fi". Cox Cable, your "nerd-level Wi-Fi" commercials are not only an insult to the intelligence of nerds everywhere, but they are spreading misinformation in the name of marketing. For those who may not have seen or heard these breathless commercials, Cox has been advertising heavily that they have the "fastest Wi-Fi available", which they are referring to as "nerd-level Wi-Fi". Here's an example (double-click it to go full-screen):. When I do, here is...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: March 2013
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html
Saturday, March 16, 2013. Google Collects Things People Shouted From Rooftops - Ordered to Pay Someone Else As Punishment. Google Ordered to Pay $7 Million to U.S. States for Wi-Fi Snooping Incident. Google is finally settling a three-year investigation this week into a Wi-Fi incident that occurred when compiling data for its mapping service. The settlement orders that Google split $7 million among 38 states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia, which were involved in the incident. Read the rest here.
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: Named Map Pins - get it right, Google!
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2013/07/named-map-pins-get-it-right-google.html
Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Named Map Pins - get it right, Google! Marking a location in Google Maps and remembering what it is has pretty much always been a pain in the neck. Don't get me wrong. I know how to mark a place. I can pull it up in Google Maps on a computer and "star" it, or I can do basically the same thing on my Android. When I do, it comes up as a star on my phone or on my computer whenever I view a Google Map. It does, anyway. Why, Google, why? Actually, that's not entirely true. I've f...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: The "Unlike" Project
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-unlike-project.html
Thursday, February 28, 2013. Today I made a rash decision. I decided to Unlike stuff on Facebook. The reasons for this are not irrational. The reason I've clicked "Like" on TV shows, musical artists, movies, and whatever, is usually because I want my profile to say things about me when people visit it and look at my details. You take a good look at that stuff when you look at people's profiles, right? What do you mean, you never look at people's profiles? Because they see it in advertising. And if you ar...
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: Google Collects Things People Shouted From Rooftops - Ordered to Pay Someone Else As Punishment
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-collects-things-people-shouted.html
Saturday, March 16, 2013. Google Collects Things People Shouted From Rooftops - Ordered to Pay Someone Else As Punishment. Google Ordered to Pay $7 Million to U.S. States for Wi-Fi Snooping Incident. Google is finally settling a three-year investigation this week into a Wi-Fi incident that occurred when compiling data for its mapping service. The settlement orders that Google split $7 million among 38 states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia, which were involved in the incident. Read the rest here.
tulsamjtech.blogspot.com
TulsaMJ's Tech Blog: ColdFusion and FOR XML AUTO
http://tulsamjtech.blogspot.com/2015/07/coldfusion-and-for-xml-auto.html
Thursday, July 23, 2015. ColdFusion and FOR XML AUTO. I had a task: given a SQL Server query using FOR XML AUTO, XMLSCHEMA. Build a file using ColdFusion. Easy peasy, right? It returns one column containing the entire XML document. Get that and you're home free. Tag, make sure you specify the "result" attribute. I believe this was added in ColdFusion 8. We need it to figure out what the name of the column is from its property called "columnlist". (I almost always call it " query result. Cfset my xml stri...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT