Archive for June, 2006

A Quick Guide to Kayaking the Monocacy

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006


I decided to go kayaking down the Monocacy river (around Frederick, MD) last weekend. I was a bit worried about finding a place to park and having to sneak through people’s yards to get into the river ;-)

But driving along the river I discovered that some local government service or other group has provided parking and river access points (boat ramps) about every 5 miles along the river! Very impressive.
Monocacy River Access Point 6

I took some pictures of the sign they had up detailing the access point locations:
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What are Preprinted Inserts?

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

I was reading this article: Why Consumers Love Getting Preprinted Inserts and I got to wondering what it was talking about! Searches didn’t turn up anything but newspaper prices, so I went ahead and made the leap of understanding that preprinted inserts are those things that come inserted into the newspaper with colorful ads.

I now figure the internet needs a page that tells what these things are so here’s my attempt at that. If you, dear reader, have a better definition, by all means please tell us.

My search terms:

  1. Preprinted Inserts
  2. What are Preprinted Inserts
  3. What are “Preprinted Inserts”

[tags]Advertising, Direct Marketing, Preprinted Inserts, Data Mining, ads, newspapers[/tags]

MS SQL Server – Two Servers, Two Databases, One Query – How To

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

You need to use the sp_addlinkedserver and sp_addlinkedsrvlogin procedures.

Here is what currently works for me albiet slowly: (Fill in your own values where relevant.)
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