Just a short, simple blog for Bob to share his thoughts.
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| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-07-10 | Not All Marginalization is Misogyny |
| 2014-10-23 | Interesting Verbiage Choices in Technology Journalism |
| 2014-07-25 | Why I Don't Like Macs |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-06-04 | Welcome to Javalinaville |
| 2023-01-01 | Bidding Adieu to 2022 |
| 2020-12-27 | Tucson's Chicago Music Store was an Institution |
| 2020-09-16 | Remembering Tucson's Bob Cooke |
| 2019-11-14 | The Beauty of Arizona Deserts |
| 2018-06-14 | Trying Not to Overheat |
| 2018-04-23 | Desert Cycling Bingo |
| 2017-06-24 | Ride Notes for June 24th, 2017 |
| 2016-11-19 | Ride Notes for El Tour de Tucson 2016 |
| 2016-11-04 | Cycling in Arizona in the Fall |
| 2016-10-18 | Idiots in the Desert |
| 2016-09-18 | The Midnight Ride of Rob McMurray |
| 2016-07-13 | A Hot Time in the Park Today |
| 2016-05-26 | Snakes in the Lane |
| 2016-05-03 | Cycling Perspectives |
| 2015-11-22 | El Tour 2015 - The Day After |
| 2015-11-21 | Ride Notes for El Tour de Tucson 2015 |
| 2015-08-04 | Say Hello to My Little Friend |
| 2015-07-22 | Ride Notes for July 22nd, 2015 |
| 2015-06-27 | Ride Notes for June 27th, 2015 |
| 2015-06-06 | Sunset On This Evening's Ride |
| 2015-03-10 | I Love a Good Salsa |
| 2014-05-28 | How Much is that Lizard in the Window? |
| 2013-08-28 | You Know You're From Arizona When... |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-05-31 | Painters and Pretenders |
| 2021-10-01 | A Fool and His Money |
| 2018-05-04 | Desert Riding Bokeh Videos |
| 2015-09-01 | Modern Art versus the I Could Do That Mentality |
| 2015-01-26 | Code Monkey Save World |
| 2013-08-30 | The Photo that Nearly Got Me Killed |
| 2013-07-02 | The Eye of the Beholder |
| 2013-06-15 | Your Tablet PC is Not a Camera |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2017-08-04 | Adjusting Pitch for MP3 Files with FFmpeg |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-05-30 | Case Study: Migrating Microsoft's .NET Community Websites to Microsoft Azure |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2018-03-21 | Running IIS Express on a Random Port |
| 2017-08-04 | Adjusting Pitch for MP3 Files with FFmpeg |
| 2016-09-23 | Fixing Underwater Videos with FFMPEG |
| 2014-07-06 | How to Merge a Folder of MP4 Files with FFmpeg (Revisted) |
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-03-16 | My COVID19 Public Service Announcement |
| 2016-11-04 | Cycling in Arizona in the Fall |
| 2010-02-22 | Blog SPAM |
| 2010-01-20 | The Twelve Commandments of Flaming (Revisited) |
| 2009-10-10 | Welcome to my blog... |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016-11-29 | Bob's Presidential Campaign: Recap |
| 2016-09-30 | Bob's Presidential Campaign: Day 2 |
| 2016-09-29 | Bob's Presidential Campaign: Day 1 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-12-25 | A Bad Christmas Eve Pun |
| 2018-12-24 | Tales of Christmas Past... |
| 2018-12-10 | The 12 Days of Paper Writing |
| 2018-12-02 | Gaffes of the Galaxy |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-07-10 | Not All Marginalization is Misogyny |
| 2022-04-22 | Computers in the 1980s, Girls Studying STEM Subjects, and Chickens Versus Eggs |
| 2021-12-07 | Al Gore and the Invention of the Internet |
| 2021-07-10 | Scripting the Task Scheduler to Create System Restore Points |
| 2020-11-03 | Those who can - do. Those who can't - teach. |
| 2016-10-21 | The Internet Is Down |
| 2016-02-22 | Windows XP... Really? |
| 2016-01-21 | Technology in the Home |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-05-22 | How to create an HTML Application to configure your IIS SMTP Username and Password settings |
| 2014-06-30 | Some Useful and Obscure FTP Configuration Settings |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-07-16 | Proper Use of Acronyms In Business Communications |
| 2013-04-30 | Feedback Request for Curated Content Views |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2017-06-15 | Inheriting C++ Code from Other Programmers |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-06-14 | Minor Surgery on a Ricoh Theta V |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-05-17 | Dogs Versus Cats, The Sequel |
| 2021-11-28 | The Chronic Epidemic of Fake Service Dogs |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023-01-31 | College Loans and Debt Forgiveness |
| 2020-11-03 | Those who can - do. Those who can't - teach. |
| 2020-09-02 | A Higher Purpose for Higher Education |
| 2018-12-10 | The 12 Days of Paper Writing |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-07-24 | Star Trek Continues to Disappoint |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-15 | Why Does Expression Web 4 Want to Modify My PHP.INI File? |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-10-12 | Louis McMurray (1940 - 2024) |
| 2022-09-12 | Standing Up to Bullies |
| 2019-10-17 | Sometimes It's Better Not to Chase Your Dreams |
| 2018-03-30 | Adventures with the Easter Vampire |
| 2017-07-19 | Forgiveness and Restoration |
| 2017-01-11 | Painful Childhood Memories |
| 2016-04-23 | The Importance of an Apology |
| 2016-02-01 | Too Cool for School |
| 2016-01-21 | Technology in the Home |
| 2015-12-05 | Time Marches On |
| 2015-09-16 | The Most-terrifying Moment In My Life |
| 2015-02-13 | Living with Adult Children |
| 2015-01-13 | Losing My Father-in-Law to Alzheimer's Disease |
| 2014-12-29 | Looking Back on 30 Years of Marriage |
| 2014-11-28 | In Memoriam: Kenny King |
| 2013-08-29 | If You Listen to Liberals About Education, You Are a Bad Person |
| 2011-09-23 | Proud Microsoft Dad Moments |
| 2010-02-02 | For My Wife: Growing Old Together |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2017-08-04 | Adjusting Pitch for MP3 Files with FFmpeg |
| 2016-09-23 | Fixing Underwater Videos with FFMPEG |
| 2014-07-06 | How to Merge a Folder of MP4 Files with FFmpeg (Revisted) |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-09-10 | Taco Bell Isn't What It Used to Be - And They Don't Care |
| 2020-05-01 | An Ode to SOS |
| 2015-03-10 | I Love a Good Salsa |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-11-27 | Flight Simulator 2020: First Impressions |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-10-30 | It's Never Too Late to Go Back to School |
| 2011-12-31 | Weight Loss Recap for 2011 - and Why I Won't Write a Book |
| 2011-12-29 | A Few Thoughts on my 27th Anniversary |
| 2011-11-08 | The Geek's Guide to Weight Loss |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016-03-31 | First World Problems |
| 2015-04-09 | Using the Ceton Echo with Windows Media Center |
| 2014-07-07 | Why I Will Buy Another Dell Computer |
| 2012-12-28 | Upgrading a Baby Computer |
| 2011-03-23 | Why I Won't Buy Another HP Computer |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-03-14 | RFC 7151 - File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| 2012-09-05 | The New Look for IIS.NET |
| 2012-09-04 | Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 are now available! |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-11 | What's New in IIS 8.5? |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-09-05 | The New Look for IIS.NET |
| 2012-09-04 | Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 are now available! |
| 2007-12-22 | WebDAV Module for Windows Server 2008 GoLive Beta is released |
| 2007-12-14 | FPSE 2002 RC1 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64) |
| 2007-10-02 | FPSE 2002 RC0 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64) |
| 2007-09-27 | FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RC0 is released! |
| 2006-09-20 | IIS Show #8 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-11-15 | How to trust the IIS Express Self-Signed Certificate |
| 2001-07-23 | 216-Color Safe Web Palette |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-06-12 | Simple Java Wrapper Class for raspistill on the Raspberry Pi 2 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | Cognitive Offloading versus Learning a Language |
| 2021-12-18 | Excuse My French |
| 2021-10-26 | I'm a Russian Language n00b |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-10-27 | Using FrontPage 2003 to Consolidate Images in a Common Folder |
| 2013-06-21 | Using FrontPage 2003 to Bulk Rename Images Using VBA |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-12-29 | A Few Thoughts on My 40th Wedding Anniversary |
| 2023-04-27 | When in Rome |
| 2019-02-21 | The Ups and Downs of Illnesses |
| 2019-02-14 | Cow Chip Cookies on Valentine's Day |
| 2018-12-02 | Gaffes of the Galaxy |
| 2017-05-24 | Why I Fail To Understand Women |
| 2016-04-23 | The Importance of an Apology |
| 2011-12-29 | A Few Thoughts on my 27th Anniversary |
| 2010-02-02 | For My Wife: Growing Old Together |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-07-10 | Not All Marginalization is Misogyny |
| 2021-10-22 | The Day I was a Sports Legend |
| 2020-12-19 | 25 Years at Microsoft |
| 2020-11-27 | Flight Simulator 2020: First Impressions |
| 2016-12-08 | This Scammer Picked the Wrong Geek to Mess With |
| 2015-12-18 | Some Thoughts About My 20th Anniversary At Microsoft |
| 2015-06-25 | Still More Examples of Bad Technical Support |
| 2014-12-18 | Nineteen Years at Microsoft |
| 2014-10-23 | Interesting Verbiage Choices in Technology Journalism |
| 2014-07-25 | Why I Don't Like Macs |
| 2014-07-18 | More Examples of Bad Technical Support |
| 2002-09-25 | My 15 Minutes of Fame |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2007-05-11 | Scripting MIDI Events in Sibelius |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-21 | The Unrest in Our Small Slice of the Forest |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011-05-04 | WordPerfect versus Word |
| 2008-09-30 | Outlook Macro: Export Appointments to TSV File |
| 2008-09-30 | Outlook Macro: Delete Old Appointments |
| 2008-02-17 | Access Macro: Export Table/Query To Excel |
| 2008-02-17 | Access: Database Schema Report |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-09-30 | Using the WebDAV Redirector with OneDrive Part 2 - Two-Step Verification |
| 2014-09-30 | Using the WebDAV Redirector with OneDrive Part 1 - Standard Security |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | When The Tables Have Turned |
| 2022-09-12 | Standing Up to Bullies |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-01-30 | Rapid PHP Deployment for IIS using a Batch File |
| 2013-07-15 | Why Does Expression Web 4 Want to Modify My PHP.INI File? |
| 2012-11-29 | Using WebMatrix to Take a PHP Class |
| 2012-07-26 | Windows Cache 1.3 for PHP 5.4 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023-07-20 | Cursing by Keyboard in the Early Morning |
| 2020-05-01 | An Ode to SOS |
| 2019-12-01 | Burning the Candle at Both Ends |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2021-01-06 | Contemplating Dark Sarcasm and Thought Control |
| 2020-12-25 | Summarizing how we feel about 2020 with RGB |
| 2020-11-03 | Those who can - do. Those who can't - teach. |
| 2017-06-15 | Inheriting C++ Code from Other Programmers |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-06-27 | Creating a Mark Twain Funko Pop |
| 2013-12-22 | Building a Faux Fireplace for the Christmas Season |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | Bidding Adieu to 2022 |
| 2022-11-18 | My Philosophy for Tipping |
| 2022-08-19 | Thought for the Day (2022-08-19) |
| 2022-08-07 | Thought for the Day (2022-08-06) |
| 2021-10-04 | Facebook Vanishes for a Few Hours |
| 2021-08-17 | Memories of Better Days Gone By |
| 2021-07-20 | It Was the Most Something on Record |
| 2016-10-08 | Hacking - Hollywood Style |
| 2015-12-18 | Some Thoughts About My 20th Anniversary At Microsoft |
| 2014-07-16 | Proper Use of Acronyms In Business Communications |
| 2014-04-29 | What I Do For A Living |
| 2006-12-30 | Happy New Year! |
| 2006-02-01 | To geek, or not to geek... |
| 2005-12-28 | Merry Christmas 2005! |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-06-12 | Simple Java Wrapper Class for raspistill on the Raspberry Pi 2 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-10 | Charlie Kirk (1993 - 2025) - Christian, Husband, Father, Political Activist, and Martyr |
| 2024-04-08 | Reflections on Persistence, Pagans, and the Past |
| 2024-03-30 | One Of My Favorite Easter Stories |
| 2024-03-14 | Deliberately Misquoting Jesus |
| 2023-10-28 | Making a Point while Missing the Mark |
| 2023-10-12 | A Picture is Worth Thousands of Broken Hearts |
| 2020-03-27 | Optimism and Hope |
| 2020-01-18 | The International Bonhoeffer Society Denounces Trump |
| 2019-04-09 | Minor Debates About the Shroud of Turin |
| 2018-10-16 | The Sad Life and Strange Disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
| 2018-03-30 | Atheist Prayer Warriors |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022-06-29 | King's X Has Not Aged Well |
| 2022-06-23 | Marcin Patrzalek and Bach's Toccata |
| 2021-06-22 | Gear Review: Epiphone Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess Standard |
| 2020-12-29 | Movie Review: Wonder Woman 1984 |
| 2020-11-27 | Flight Simulator 2020: First Impressions |
| 2020-08-29 | Movie Review: Radioactive |
| 2017-04-21 | Verizon versus T-Mobile |
| 2017-03-30 | Omnicharge is Your Devices' Best Friend when Travelling |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-27 | Why Rick Steves is Wrong about Weed |
| 2025-01-10 | Stupid People Do Not Understand Genetics |
| 2024-08-12 | Ninety Percent of Food and Diseases |
| 2021-04-08 | Anti-Vaxxers are Anti-Science |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-05-22 | How to create an HTML Application to configure your IIS SMTP Username and Password settings |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011-05-31 | My SharePoint 2007 Custom Membership Provider Adventure |
| 2011-05-31 | Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Color Negatizing Script |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-05-22 | How to create an HTML Application to configure your IIS SMTP Username and Password settings |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2019-12-31 | Ranger Up - A Sad Tale of Customer Service Failures |
| 2016-12-08 | This Scammer Picked the Wrong Geek to Mess With |
| 2016-08-08 | Correlation versus Causation |
| 2015-06-25 | Still More Examples of Bad Technical Support |
| 2014-07-18 | More Examples of Bad Technical Support |
| 2014-07-07 | Why I Will Buy Another Dell Computer |
| 2011-03-23 | Why I Won't Buy Another HP Computer |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-10-23 | Interesting Verbiage Choices in Technology Journalism |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-08-26 | Electric Vehicles are Not Evil |
| 2022-07-10 | Not All Marginalization is Misogyny |
| 2022-04-22 | Computers in the 1980s, Girls Studying STEM Subjects, and Chickens Versus Eggs |
| 2021-12-07 | Al Gore and the Invention of the Internet |
| 2020-11-30 | The Downside of Kickstarter Part II |
| 2020-09-24 | Modding Aviom Headphone Jacks |
| 2018-10-11 | The Downside of Kickstarter |
| 2018-06-18 | The Future - and Past - of Dual-Screen Laptops and Tablets |
| 2017-06-13 | Apple's Self-Driving Car? |
| 2017-03-30 | Omnicharge is Your Devices' Best Friend when Travelling |
| 2014-07-21 | Drum Circles and Conference Calls Do Not Mix |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-07-24 | Star Trek Continues to Disappoint |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2021-11-25 | What I'm Thankful For This Thanksgiving |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-10-09 | My Wi-Fi Travel Log |
| 2025-08-28 | Chocolate Break on a Warm Spanish Evening |
| 2025-01-28 | The Glamour and Romance of Travel |
| 2024-07-09 | The Trials and Trappings of Wealth and Fashion |
| 2024-04-08 | Reflections on Persistence, Pagans, and the Past |
| 2023-04-27 | When in Rome |
| 2021-08-17 | Memories of Better Days Gone By |
| 2020-03-03 | My German Skills are a Little Rusty |
| 2020-02-28 | English isn't English |
| 2019-11-25 | Paying Tribute to Freddie |
| 2015-12-02 | Christmas in the UK |
| 2015-11-12 | Cool Towns Around The World |
| 2009-04-10 | Advertising IIS Around the World |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020-11-27 | Flight Simulator 2020: First Impressions |
| 2018-03-23 | Recovering a Mirror Set on Windows 10 |
| 2016-08-08 | Correlation versus Causation |
| 2014-04-09 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 - Part 2 |
| 2014-04-08 | FTP ETW Tracing and IIS 8 |
| 2008-10-02 | AppCmd 80070057 errors when configuring site-level settings |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | Bidding Adieu to 2022 |
| 2020-09-16 | Remembering Tucson's Bob Cooke |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-10-27 | Using FrontPage 2003 to Consolidate Images in a Common Folder |
| 2013-06-21 | Using FrontPage 2003 to Bulk Rename Images Using VBA |
| 2008-09-30 | Outlook Macro: Export Appointments to TSV File |
| 2008-09-30 | Outlook Macro: Delete Old Appointments |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-05-27 | Creating an HTML Application to Convert Text Files to Audio Files |
| 2015-05-22 | How to create an HTML Application to configure your IIS SMTP Username and Password settings |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-07-06 | How to Merge a Folder of MP4 Files with FFmpeg (Revisted) |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-05-16 | Simple Utility to Calculate File Hashes |
| 2014-05-16 | Simple Utility to Calculate File Hashes |
| 2013-11-15 | How to trust the IIS Express Self-Signed Certificate |
| 2013-10-26 | Custom Post-Build Events for Compiling FTP Providers |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-29 | Using XSPF files with VLC to Specify Start and End Times Within a Media File |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-11-15 | How to trust the IIS Express Self-Signed Certificate |
| 2013-06-28 | IntelliSense for jQuery in WebMatrix |
| 2012-11-29 | Using WebMatrix to Take a PHP Class |
| 2012-07-21 | WebDAV Website Importer for WebMatrix |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-07-26 | Windows Cache 1.3 for PHP 5.4 |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2021-07-10 | Scripting the Task Scheduler to Create System Restore Points |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | Exporting and Importing Windows Media Center Recording Schedules |
| 2015-04-09 | Using the Ceton Echo with Windows Media Center |
| 2014-02-16 | Using ASX Files with Windows Media Center |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2010-12-08 | Adding Windows Phone 7 Support to BlogEngine.NET |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-09-05 | The New Look for IIS.NET |
| 2012-09-04 | Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8 are now available! |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-11 | What's New in IIS 8.5? |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023-12-14 | Power Tip for Remote Workers |
| 2020-08-04 | To sleep, perchance to dream... |
| 2018-10-12 | Mission Statements |
| 2018-04-01 | Soul-Crushing Meetings |
| 2015-11-03 | Work/Life Balance |
| 2014-07-21 | Drum Circles and Conference Calls Do Not Mix |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024-06-11 | We've Always Done It That Way |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-02-28 | Advanced Log Parser Part 7 - Creating a Generic Input Format Plug-In |
| 2012-07-06 | Creating "Pretty" XML using XSL and VBScript |
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2012-12-23 | Why I Personally Think the Zune Failed |
| 2011-04-12 | Farewell to Zune? (Or not?) |