Author Archives: Garrett

Anyone want to buy a house?

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Garrett

It’s for sale! Details at 100alden.wgb.me. If you or someone you know of is looking for a new home in the North Chatt / Red Bank area, send them our way!

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Electricity Usage So far in 2009

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Garrett

In 2007, the electricity usage at my house was at 27,751 kWh for the year. In 2008, it dropped 8.71% to 25,528. As of 2009 (just missing December), it is down by 17.73% to 19,877. If we were to go … Continue reading →

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Kevin Smith and I are pretty much best friends now

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Garrett

…he just doesn’t know it. But, hey, he responded to a Twitter post by one of the @PredFans participants! Oh, and if you didn’t know, he’s a HUGE New Jersey Devils fan and a pretty active Twitter user. For those … Continue reading →

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On friends becoming zombies…

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Garrett

“… I wouldn’t hesitate one second to put a bullet in your skull if I thought you were turning. It would be the best thing for all of us. The way I see it is this: You could see the … Continue reading →

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Vista Activation Got You Down? Bypass it! (Sort of)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Garrett

Let’s just start from the beginning (aka “the excuse”). I had to install Windows XP or Vista on my MacBook Pro for the data architect class I’ve been taking. Since this is work-related, I snagged work’s copy of Vista. We … Continue reading →

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Time Machine Backup to Samba NAS with Mac OS X 10.5.8

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Garrett

After a couple of days of struggling and Googling, I finally came across a resource that worked to allow Time Machine to back up to my NAS over Samba with Mac OS X 10.5.8. The resource I found is How … Continue reading →

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That’s Me on the Griffin Technology Blog!

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Garrett

I was featured on the Griffin Technology Blog as a prize winner from this past weekend’s BarCamp! Here’s a screenshot just in case they archive the post and it goes away.

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Networking at BarCamp Chattanooga 2009

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Garrett

We all know BarCamps are about networking. Typically people networking or social networking. The kind of networking I’m talking about is wireless networking. This past weekend was Chattanooga’s first ever BarCamp. The announcement of the BarCamp was made shortly after … Continue reading →

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Structs, Arrays, and Arrays of Structs in WSDL

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Garrett

I’ve been getting into creating web services lately for all sorts of tasks. I started out with XML-RPC and was hammering away pretty well with it until I discovered that .Net didn’t like to play with XML-RPC. Since this was … Continue reading →

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Our New 2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Garrett

After over a week of the dealer searching and trying to make trades, they finally got the Mazda 3 that we wanted! It’s a celestial blue 2010 Mazda 3 5-door (hatchback) Grand Touring with tech package and audio package. Features … Continue reading →

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