Carp Tuesday

Carp Tuesday

I don’t normally pay attention to the Solunar chart since it has failed me often in the past. I do however usually go fishing before work on Tuesdays, and yesterday happened to be an excellent day according to Solunar data. With the weather getting cooler (thankfully!) I figured catfish will be hunkering down for the winter.

Preparing for “Trout season”

Preparing for “Trout season”

It’s fall, temperatures are (finally) getting and staying cooler, and so is the average water temperature. I enjoy fishing for catfish, but they just don’t bite in water temperatures below 75° (they prefer water temps around 82°-84°). I believe I’ve caught one, maybe two in Octobers past in AZ. Rainbow trout, however, are cold water fish, preferring water temperatures between 61°-64°. In AZ the average temperature in wintertime is 70°-80° during the day, and as long as water temperatures stay…

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My latest project – OAQ

My latest project – OAQ

Several years ago I took a Raspberry Pi 2 B+ and turned it into SLRPi – the SETI listener for Raspberry Pi. It was a custom build of Debian Jessie and a custom build of BOINC for the SETI project. You can read more about that effort here. Earlier this year it was announced that this phase of the project was ending. After 20 years of collecting data it was time for them to do some data mining and look…

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SharePoint: Updating file/folder metadata with a # in the name

SharePoint: Updating file/folder metadata with a # in the name

For the longest time this wasn’t an issue. There were just certain characters that weren’t allowed as file or folder names in the Windows world (%&#/\ and so on). Not too long ago, Microsoft decided it’s ok to accept files and folders in SharePoint with either the % or the # in the file or folder name. Great for end users who enjoy that sort of thing…awful for us developers. For example, in the past I’m sure you did something…

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