I knew about the symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids before. I had seen it on a few nature shows.
I knew about the symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids before. I had seen it on a few nature shows.I was surprised that I could actually witness this myself outside my front door.
I noticed we had some infestation on a plant near our front door, so I had a closer look. I then grabbed my digital camera and took a few photos. They turned out much better than I anticipated!
I may go to the nursery to buy some lady bugs. Apparently you can buy them to get rid of aphids in an environmentally friendy way. I like lady bugs, so this is perfect.
Here are my Photos:
June 5th, 2006
A quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson(Amazon.com/ Amazon.ca).”.. effective way of grasping our extreme recentness as part of this 4.5-billion-year-old picture is to stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of the Earth.
On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian.
All complex life is in one hand, ‘and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history‘
Makes you think about the significance of human history and accomplishments on a geologic time scale..
May 16th, 2006
A class written in VB.Net using GDI.net to create thumbnail images and stream or save them as JPG.
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January 22nd, 2006
Every wonder about all those processes in the Task Manager list of processes are? This is a quick and dirty way of getting a list of those processes, the file they’re running, and a number of other attributes.
I find it very useful to know the path and filename that is creating the processes in the list.
This is one way.. like I said, quick and dirty.. to detect and possibly help remove spyware, adware, and malware in general. It’s also useful to help debug system performance issues.
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January 20th, 2006
A VBScript that sends an email with a file attachment. I’ve used this in Windows 2000 (Win2K) and Windows XP Pro (XP Pro) environments.eg. Drag a file from explorer onto the icon for this script and it will send that file as an attachment to the email address you specify.
eg. Or.. incorporate it into an automated process by passing the filename and email address as parameters. This is useful if you want to send a file with a scheduled task or job.
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January 19th, 2006
Here is a very useful set of functions if you want to log to the application event log in Windows. I’ve used it on scheduled scripts, jobs, HTA (HTML Application).
You can call the LogEvent function with a string that you want to place in the application event log. This defaults as an information event. You can optionally call the LogEvent_ex, LogEventAudit, or LogEventAuditFail functions to specify a different event type. Enjoy!
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January 17th, 2006
This script generates an HTML report sent by email of the status and health of specified MS Indexing Service catalogs using a COM object in VBScript.
MS Content Index Service (CISVC) can be accessed through the object Microsoft.ISAdm.
Download the script to generate the CISVC report
January 16th, 2006
Want to take a bunch of web cam images and create a time lapse movie? Here’s the app for you.. it’s Open Source (GPL).
I didn’t write the app to begin with, I’ve only fixed a bug/issue with how it was getting the list of files.
MakeAVI converts a series of images into an AVI movie. This is the source code and compiled applicataion for a fixed version. The fix is for the number of photos that can be opened, there was a fixed buffer for the file names.
It works very well..
Download the Source Code
Download the compiled Application
September 16th, 2005
My Dad and I are building a playhouse for my daughter.. it’s nearly done, just a few more rows of shingles to put on.
On top of that, my Mom and Sister in Law came over for three days and whipped the gardens into shape by edging and trimming.. removing a trailer full of debris (and then some!).
August 16th, 2005
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