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Never do business with Long of Chattanooga

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Garrett

When I first bought my 2005 Volvo S40 T5 in December of 2004, everything was great. The dealership (then Prebul) was outstanding and bent over backwards to make sure we were happy with the car. Even at the 50,000-mile scheduled … Continue reading →

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GUI Programmer Compliment?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Garrett

I thought this little exchange between a coworker and myself was funny: Mike: i don’t know how you front end guys deal with all that stuff, it’s like you gotta be a coder and hand write .docx files at the … Continue reading →

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Easy Object->Array Conversion in PHP

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Garrett

Are you ever working in a “mixed environment” where some things (like the Simple XML Element) return objects and some things like to work with arrays? If so, there’s a really easy way to convert all those objects into arrays … Continue reading →

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New Parent Tip #1 – Visitation Hours

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Garrett

We’ve been new parents for a whole 8 days, but the biggest tip we can share is to schedule “visitation hours” and stick to them. While everyone outside your household is used to a routine with work, sleep, eat, etc, … Continue reading →

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Hello World

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Garrett

At 6:06 PM on April 15th, 2011, we welcomed our little Lola to the world outside her mommy. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces and 20 inches. The birth and life since has been great. This past Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Quick Composting Primer

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Garrett

Since I’ve done a brain dump of my composting habits for a couple of friends, I figured I’d go ahead and post it out on the web in case anyone else is interested. It’s just some of the tools and … Continue reading →

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Definition of Football

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Garrett

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Hard Drive Benchmarking

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Garrett

I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft lately. I host my server out of my closet at home on a little 1.66 GHz Intel Atom CPU with 2 GB of DDR2. Whenever the hard drive starts getting hammered, you can … Continue reading →

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Directory junctions, Symlinking, and DropBox

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Garrett

Sometimes applications will not let you choose where to put their stored files and settings (for game saves, profiles, etc). But, sometimes you’d like to synchronize those directories outside of DropBox without changing the “root” of your DropBox folder. In … Continue reading →

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Virtual Graph Paper

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Garrett

I’m a geek. I know this. And it is because of this that I want things like “virtual” graph paper. And I want it online. And in a browser. So, after impatiently shrugging off the first page of Google search, … Continue reading →

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