http://myleshenderson.com it is myles henderson Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:17:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We needed to convert GPS waypoints which were in Excel and in decimal form to degree, minute, second form. Logically, we wanted an Excel function to do this, rather than do the whole thing by hand. I found a link to microsoft which gives a horribly broken implementation of the functionality. ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2009/08/10/convert-decimal-to-degreesminutesseconds-angles-in-excel A friend needs help getting the word out regarding the quality of Lone Rock Elementary School.  I hope this helps.  http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2009/01/27/fail These advertisements are from Cigar International's Christmas catalog, page 23, the closeout page.  I've never seen great things said about the cigars on that page; usually, one sees copy such as 'straight tobacco taste' or 'decent smoke'.       http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2008/11/20/truth-in-advertising-cigars It was 436 days ago that I stopped smoking cigarettes. I picked the day, December 22, 2006, two weeks in advance and quit cold turkey. Now I smoke one cigar per day, sometimes two if it’s a good day. I was a compulsive cigarette smoker. I smoked when I woke up ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2008/03/02/cigars-i-have-known-and-loved-15-months-in I like the plpgsql procedural language for PostgreSQL more than it is appropriate to like a procedural language. I find the reward:effort ratio to be quite high. Since one can do so many cool things with it, why waste time writing boring insert functions for tables? Here's my plpgsql ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/16/postgresql-insert-function-generator I have hacked together some PHP5 code to get a thumbnail of a random picture from Picasa Web Albums for a given userid. The code can be much better. Each time the page is requested two curl calls are made, one to fetch XML for the albums and one to ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/03/random-picture-from-picasa It takes an increasingly long amount of time to get out of the house. Seven years ago we could shower, dress, eat and be out of the door in half an hour but now it takes that long for this family of four just to have breakfast. The trees here ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/03/on-the-road-to-blowing-rock-nc It is time to buy vegetables for the week and having spent six months in Charlotte without taking the time to make the drive, we decided to check out the Charlotte Farmers Market. The Charlotte Farmers Market is one of five farmers markets owned ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/09/27/charlotte-farmers-market I give you the elvis: Take one piece of sliced bread Apply peanut butter Cover with sliced banana Cover with crispy bacon Drizzle honey Top with one piece of sliced bread It has been said that the King himself invented this sandwich after regaining his appetite following a two-week benzedrine binge. http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/31/the-elvis xkcd.com makes me laugh http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/27/sudo