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When I’m 107!
Monday, October 25, 2010 3:00 PM
This is just too good to not share! So I received my MasterCard Statement this month and there is a new law in Canada which requires Credit Card companies to tell you how long it will take to pay off your current balance assuming that you make only make the minimum payments. This month is a higher than normal month for me, as I purchased a new laptop and anniversary... Read More...
by Garth Jones
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SMSUG.ca Forums
Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:44 AM
I have decided that the forums on www.SMSUG.ca are not being used and due to some SPAMMER populating the membership list, I have closed them down. This is a good thing as it means I will arrange for the site to be convert to a blog only site. With the new site will come a new look a feel. (wait for it)   If you are looking for ConfigMgr , SCCM , SMS, v.Next... Read More...
SRS and Twitter
Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:02 AM
So last night I was at the OttawaSQL.Net UG meeting, Colin Melia did a 400 Level (really it was a 500+, truly a deep dive!) about using SRS to collect data from different data source. Anyways, Colin used Ashton Kutcher twitter account http://twitter.com/APlusK as a data source and displayed a chart of times when he post and the average # of words he posts. Although... Read More...
Today’s Fun link! - 2
Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:07 PM
The video got striped out of the blog post. Here is the link to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw Read More...
Today’s Fun link!
Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:03 PM
  Today I was reading the myITforum newsletter http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenl/nls/20090709.htm . So after checking out at all the article and forum posts, I checked out the “Today's Fun Click”. I started to LOL when I saw this. Read More...
Replaced!
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:45 PM
  To quote Ellen’s Facebook page..   “We have a dog in the house again, and this one is finally ours to keep. Yesterday we brought home a four-year-old Labrador Retreiver (black of course). She's a country girl, and has lived all her life so far in the Lanark Highlands with lots of room to play, lots of playmates and a river to swim in, so there... Read More...
by Garth Jones
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We are now +1
Sunday, May 17, 2009 7:50 PM
Well not really but Ellen and I did drove out to the a Labrador breeder today and we picked up a new Labrador. She is not a puppy but a 4 year old dog who was a show champion show dog too! More to come on that later, or check out Ellen’s facebook page, I’m sure that she will have picture up there before I do. Also while driving we saw an ad for a restaurant that... Read More...
by Garth Jones
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Drinking Game?
Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:22 PM
This week I was introduced to a new drinking game. In this game you take a drink each time you see Susan Ibach (from our friend at CTE Solutions ) within this Video . I Love Learning Ok it is not really a drink game but it is a cool video. If you ever meet Susan ask her to tell you the story behind this video and how her boss (Mia) first saw it! BTW I counted... Read More...
Job posting
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:47 PM
Make sure that you stop by the OWSUG Job forums. There have been 10 new posting within the last month with more that half of them for Microsoft! Read More...
OWSUG Job listing
Friday, May 09, 2008 2:27 PM
If you are into RSS then you should add the OWSUG job listing feed, there were 6 jobs posted to the forum the other day. http://owsug.ca/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=10&Mode=0 Read More...
Blog Statistic – Part 2
Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:03 PM
Just after posting the blog stats, I remember that I also want to check out that number of ping backs and comments. Since April 1 2007 there have been 181 ping backs and 22 comments select count(*) as '# of Comments' from cs_Posts cs_Posts, cs_Sections SEC where cs_Posts.SectionID = Sec.SectionID and Groupid = 3 and cs_Posts.SectionID = 20 and postdate... Read More...
Blog Statistic
Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:41 PM
Recently I was asked about stats for my blog, so instead of guessing what the stats are I created a SQL query to figure it out. So with out further ado here are the stats from April 1 2007 until this just before this post. Number of post 325 Total # of web views 49042 Average # of web views 150 Total # of Agg views 96404 Average # of Agg Views 296 I wonder what... Read More...
Happy New Year!!!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:57 PM
Ellen and I would like wish you all the best in the New Year. Read More...
Hourly posting status.
Monday, December 31, 2007 7:21 AM
Why am I posting this information well, 2 reasons. 1) Someone asked me how I could ensure that I posted once per day and the answer is I pre-posted lots of posts. As you can tell I used hour between 6-7 am (7-8 EST) for pre-posted blogs. Just because… 2) Ever so often I would miss posting on time so I would back post blogs J I used the 10-11 pm (11 pm-Midnight... Read More...
Top 50 posts for 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:01 PM
Total Title Web Views RSS Views 1117 One more reason to use v_GS_Computer_System vs v_R_System 748 369 989 SMS Log files 572 417 928 Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide 611 317 872 What are my top 25 post? 256 616 859 Ottawa Windows Server User Group Newsletter 512 347 846 What is the average number or items within the Add/Remove Per PC? 431... Read More...
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