Officially disguised as a Canadian
Author: RandolphI’ve just written a very nifty C# application, and for reasons of secrecy, I can’t tell anyone what it is or how it works! This is frustrating because I think it’s awesome. Hopefully just posting this entry about [redacted] will get the excitement off my chest and then I can continue doing my tax filing.
There’s been a major attack on all WordPress (and Joomla) websites worldwide. When I last read about it, over 150 000 IP addresses were involved in the botnet. My (fantastic) service provider, Site5, with whom I host all of my customers’ sites as well as my own, mitigated the attack through the course of aContinue reading Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress
I broke my foot on Sunday. We were on Vancouver Island, at the very end of our weekend away, staying with friends. I’d gone outside where it had been raining, saw the garage door closing, decided I’d try run back inside, and slipped on the concrete with wet shoes. Anyway, we thought it was justContinue reading Broken foot
“To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to findContinue reading Contribute joy to the world
There’s a trend on various networks to show off one’s home screen on their smart phones and / or tablets. Never being one to miss an opportunity to follow the herd, here’s my iPhone’s home screen: For good measure, here’s the second screen, because how can I get by with only two? I love folders.
Obligatory “I’m still alive” post. For microblogging, I’m on Twitter and ADN (App.net). I’m not on Facebook1. I’m on Google+ periodically. There’s Tumblr, where I lurk a bit, mainly to find lurid pictures for a friend of mine. There is a LOT of porn on Tumblr. You can also find me on Pinterest, where IContinue reading Hello, world
Success! Sort of … Instead of the complicated method I described previously, I’ve gone manual, which is, yes, more complicated :-). I started with the latest sms.db file from my new iPhone, and then editing SQLite scripts, incremented the ROWIDs by 30,000 for the message table, and 1000 for the others, so as to avoidContinue reading Merging iOS Message databases: update
I ran into a bit of a snag with my original plan. I built the framework for parsing the SQL script, one statement at a time, and catered for statements that wrapped over more than one line. It took about two hours to get to the point where I was ready to parse the SQLContinue reading Progress on Merging SMS databases
Disclaimer: I haven’t actually done it, yet. Last night I rediscovered my original iPhone SMS database from before I did a factory-reset on my phone. I had jailbroken my 3G ages ago, and ever since then, the carrier wasn’t updating properly, regardless of the SIM card I used or country I was in. So inContinue reading Merging two iPhone SMS sqlite databases
It’s snowing today in Calgary. While this is expected for March, it was unexpected for me. We moved here from Lloydminster last August, and after two-and-a-half years there, I thought we were used to heavy snow. The good news is, the yard is much smaller, there is no driveway, and the front path is muchContinue reading Snowfall