Believe it or not, it can happen. Following links between favorited photos, I found this screenshot generated by WinDirStat, a utility for displaying Windows Directory Statistics graphically.

Milind Lele reports that the first Community Tech Preview for Sedna is now available.

BoingBoing tells us about an undercover news investigation where in all but three of the stations where their reporters attempted to get forms to file complaints against officers, they weren’t able to get them.

In fact, one of the officers caught on hidden camera took the station to court to prevent the airing of the story: the preliminary injunction was denied.

Craig Boyd shows us some super-nifty stuff he’s working on with the Fox team involving hosting XAML in a VFP form and outputting XPS (the Office 12 Document format) from VFP reports.

After finding out that CafePress could make calendars, I thought I’d give it a try. I created one with my pictures from the closing of the Metro bus tunnel in downtown Seattle. I also created a miniposter of the Pioneer Square station and some postcards of a picture of Erin reaching for a bird in flight.

If you’re interested, check them out at donnael Designs. :-)

One of the IS scripts I created, but don’t use enough, is the one where I need to query the table I’m currently in. So, I created a “MeSel” Intellisense shortcut with the following code in it:

LPARAMETER oFoxCode

oFoxCode.ValueType = "V"

lcDBF = DBF()

lcRetVal = "SELECT ~ FROM " + juststem(lcDBF)

RETURN lcRetVal

This fills in the current database name and leaves the cursor where the tilde is in the code above, ready to type in the field list.

I keep forgetting which Visual FoxPro Intellisense settings I’ve actually defined on my machine, so I just tossed this short program together to see what they are.

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A while ago, I set this blog up in Feedburner, just to see what it would be like. Feedburner does link tracking, so you can see what links of yours are actually being followed. I don’t like being on the user end of it, though, because if you’re reading a Feedburner feed and you want to get the URL for the article, you have to click through Feedburner’s redirect to get it. If you’re interested, though, you can find it at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SarekOfVulcan. I didn’t do any of the Amazon Associates or Google Adsense stuff to it, but that could change in the future, if I’m really bored. :-)

The normal feed, blog.xml will not be going away, so don’t feel like you have to change your aggregators. It’s just another option. Update:Well, actually, it did go away, but http://blog.donnael.com/feed/ works nicely.

I’m currently working on a mail job where one of our standard programs kept giving me an “invalid subscript error” message. In one line, there was a FOR x = 1 to n statement: in the very next line, x equalled “25″.

Of course, it only took me about 15 minutes to remember that the client’s data had a column named “x” in it…

Scoble pointed at BlogCode in the same post where he invented Brrreeeport. You code various blogs, and it compares those blogs to other ones. Can my long-time readers go code me, too? :-) Let me know if you want me to return the favor.