Monthly Archives: August 2007

Hey, Google

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

If you’re going to send a guy a survey to find out his impressions of your recruiting/interviewing methodology, you might not want to send it to somebody who has been waiting two months for you to pay his travel expense … Continue reading →

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A day well wasted

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I took the Lance over to Batavia for service. It was only supposed to take a couple of hours, and I’d be back at work before 11:00. Of course, it didn’t work out that way.

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Darn it!

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Some years ago I got a set of Shape Files (much as I hated ESRI at the time, they did beat us (GeoVision) fair and square with an inferior product and superior marketing) for the provincial and territorial boundaries of … Continue reading →

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Hoist by my own petard

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Yesterday I thought I’d try running my loading scripts on my home machine because it’s so much faster than my colo box. And it was running faster, and had gotten further than the still running script on my colo box … Continue reading →

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Sigh

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I made some major changes to the way data gets loaded into my navaid.com waypoint generator database, mostly in the processing of the “combined user data”. Mostly, I wanted to make sure that if “Bob” provides me some data on … Continue reading →

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