AI Test - defeat Excel / me

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Don't outsource your humanity to a machine

AGC Conference 2024 - 12 months in AI

More thoughts on a four day work week

(Nintex) Workflows failed to run (after security patching)

Why we removed all LLM-generated content from cortex.gg

Ironman Vitoria Gasteiz 2024

Apple One Family - the fight; the experience; Apple Support?

Blazordle - a Wordle solver (and some JetBrains AI Assistant)

Plausible proxy in Azure App Service

Resetting a Raspberry Pi root password

Thoughts on a four day work week

Building a website with AI - the state of ChatGPT

Coding with an AI Sidekick - How ChatGPT Facilitated the Creation of DipnDine.gg

Atomstack A5 Laser on macOS Catalina and LightBurn

Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - the Code

Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - Setting Up

Building a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi - Intro

So close, yet ultimately... so far: Ikea.

In hindsight, Nespresso, you did OK

Climbing Aconcagua, Argentina

Garmin - really doesn't care.

eBay - apology please. I'll wait. Maybe.

Algorithms Are Shit - Carvana, Amazon

The Cycle of Continuous Innovation

Building a PiHole on a Raspberry Pi

Home Office Build

2022 H1 Review

Samsung M8 Smart Monitor review

What is this approach to marketing? Blinds Direct

Can AI ever be sentient? On LaMDA and the wider debate

Moving my Music library to a NAS - update

At last a macOS update I can get on board with

MySQL - get previous and next rows in one query

Hugo escape shortcodes for display

Bootstrap Style Tables in Hugo (without bootstrap...)

Samyang Korean Spicy Ramen Noodle - Results

Samyang Korean Spicy Ramen Noodle - Intro

Adding decals to carbon road bike wheels

Removing decals and stickers from road bike wheels

Migrating Wordpress comments to HashOver for Hugo

Twitter - advanced search to find your old tweets

If this is the future of challenger finance, maybe it really is time for crypto. Starling Bank

Goodnight, Frankie

Deploying Hugo sites - rclone to the rescue?!

Updated Initial Thoughts on Hugo

2022 - exploring creative stuffs again

Draytek vs Netgear Orbi for Mesh Wifi

Initial thoughts on Hugo over Wordpress

Migrating from Hugo to Wordpress

Blog update 2022: migrated to Hugo

SharePoint Word Automation: there is no word services application proxy configured for this site collection

Resolving Neff oven E6200 error

Graniteman 2021

My site was hacked. Sort of.

Exchange Online Powershell on macOS

I finally moved my Music library to a NAS

GoPro still has an issue with some SanDisk SD cards

BMW Mini R57 foglight replacement

Installing Disney+ app on a Sony Bravia 4k television

I built a router table.

VMWare Fusion / Big Sur / Ubuntu / Black screen

Obscure SharePoint errors #13653: DavWWWRoot is not accessible

Misc Ubuntu 20.04 on Hyper-V from macOS setup stuff

Guernsey Marathon 2020

Converting a Bosch GKS 18V-57 to a GKS-18V-57 G

VW Caravelle Westfalia Towbar install

Eugh. Configuring Powershell for remote Exchange management

Basic web scraping with Python: Episode 3!

Nintex site workflow + lookup columns

ASP.NET Core OAuth Facebook cancel causes 500 fix

Visual Studio regex replace for 7 year old issue...

Bulk delete items from SharePoint Document Library with Powershell - with filters

Troubleshooting Word Automation Services in SharePoint

Why I hate no-reply / unmonitored inboxes: British Airways

Ben Nevis, North Face via Tower Ridge

Basic web scraping - Part 2: thoughts on debugging and Python3

Sharepoint - Open .eml files in Outlook

Basic web scraping with a Raspberry Pi, Python and Requests

Use DISKPART to bring a disk online

Migrate VMWare Fusion virtual machines to VMWare ESXi

SQL Server - quickly delete all tables

Installing SharePoint in standalone / single server mode

Sharepoint 2010 - Access denied... even for farm admins

Sharepoint 2010 SP2 installation - variety of issues

Dear TripAdvisor, your systems have gone rogue

Bulk delete items and folders from Sharepoint document library using Powershell

La Village Cancalais, Cancale, France

SSRS: the given path's format is not supported

SSRS + Visual Studio + SP Integrated Mode

Does SharePoint 2013 work on SQL Server 2016?

SharePoint trace service keeps getting disabled

Monterey Hotel, St Helier, Jersey

SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint

Sharepoint solutions - stuck on retracting or deploying

HP-Setup wifi network on HP M377dw

Create SharePoint Content Organiser rules programmatically with lookup fields

SharePoint + Visual Studio - cannot rename Feature folder

MySQL on Raspberry Pi - allow connections from non-localhost

Recovering files from broken Raspberry Pi - Part 2

Recovering files from broken Raspberry Pi - Part 1

Chaining Powershell commands - now with email alerts

Quick tip: chaining powershell commands

SharePoint 2010 pain - splitting a large content database

Yes, more! Timer jobs not running!

SharePoint - Error encrypting or decrypting credentials

Setting content organiser settings programmatically

SharePoint site locked (read only)

psconfig v2v or b2b?

SharePoint passphrase recovery

Everything wrong with 'boutique hotels'

Climbing Elbrus

MySQL table name case sensitivity

On Mono on a Raspberry Pi... vs Win10 IOT Core

.NET console app on Mono on Raspberry Pi writing to MySQL (compiled on a Mac)

Camping Bel, Tranche sur la Mer, France

Proxxon AH 80 - Surface Planer / Jointer - English review

Debugging a Bosch compound mitre saw... part 2!

Debugging a... Bosch compound mitre saw

.NET application output app.config settings at runtime nicely formatted

SharePoint 2010 Programmatically Create List from Custom List Template in C#

Subaru Forester window motor replacement

Sample Python code to query Wunderlist API

Surf Snowdonia - 10 things about a trip there

HTML5 input number and search

SQL Database login for x on x failed. Login failed for x. Event ID: 3351

This functionality is unavailable for fields not associated with a list

SharePoint Features + Renaming

Sharepoint 2010 + Internal Field Name Max Length

Battery change on a Brita Elemaris water jug filter

gnucash + mysql + OS X 10.10: getting it running

Two useful SharePoint Powershell links

Event ID: 1108 SQL Server Reporting Services cannot load the SQLPDW extension

SharePoint list views filtered by date AND time

Debugging SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 workflow stuck on starting

SharePoint 2010 + SSRS Integrated mode + deploy + login prompt

Exception occured while connecting to WCF endpoint: An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party

SP2010 and Managed Metadata and &

SharePoint 2010 + DocumentSets + OfficialFile.asmx max file size

Current user is not a farm administrator - redux

The OLE DB provider Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0 for linked server (null) reported an error. Access denied.

Auto generate SQL audit tables and database triggers

SharePoint Designer 2010 - list/library There are no items to show in this view - ListData.svc woes

SharePoint 2010 - Managed Metadata - Required feature is not enabled for this column type

Some notes on VMWare Converter

My VMWare ESXi build - Part 2 - Building ESXi

My VMWare ESXi 5.1 build - Part 1 - The Hardware

SharePoint 2010 State Machine workflow delayActivity tip

SharePoint 2010 State Machine workflow onWorkflowItemChanged firing multiple times

Get SPUser from Person or Group field

SharePoint 2010 State Machine delay activity (and why it may not fire)

Activity onWorkflowItemChanged validation warning: The correlation token may be uninitialized

Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid file name

Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: This functionality is unavailable for field collections not associated with a list.

SharePoint Event Receivers + Inherited Documents + ItemUpdating

SharePoint 2010 upgrade failure - Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products

Quick tip: Access Denied when editing navigation (areanavigationsettings.aspx) in MySites

Error activating features - key cannot be null - redux

SharePoint 2010 + Custom retention formula installation failure + current user is not a farm administrator

SharePoint 2010 + Search within document sets

SharePoint Event Receivers + ItemAdded + Null Columns fun

Web Service access + internal traffic + 407 Proxy Authentication Required

Creating SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Rules programmatically

Powershell tip - find all checked out files

Quick tip: SharePoint powershell - get items in a list based on custom columns and other hints

SSRS error: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object

SharePoint 2010 Foundation + SQL Server Reporting Services Integrated mode installation issues: Failed to establish connection with report server, 401 errors and more

The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component

Error formatting query, probably invalid parameters [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22050)

Useful SharePoint script to restart SharePoint services and IIS

Configuring certificates and trust in SharePoint 2010 for accessing Exchange Web Services

SharePoint 2010: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

Coverage of a SharePoint 2010 project recently completed

The field with Id {} defined in feature {} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite

Quick tip: SPListItem.CopyTo custom method

SharePoint 2010 + Document Sets + Custom Ribbon Buttons with Custom Code

SharePoint 2010 context menu item with custom code

More fun with deploying Document Sets via XML

Updating declarative XML content types

Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Invalid field name.

Provision Document Set + XMLDocuments and ???

the specified value for the locstringid parameter is outside the bounds of this enum

SharePoint 2010: Visual Webpart tutorial

SharePoint: Error occurred during deployment step activate features

Tip: Visual Studio + Batch replace GUIDs

Powershell tip for updating document sets

Exchange Web Services and reading an EmailMessage to memory

SharePoint 2010 + Kofax Express + Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Can't alter server principal ‘dbo'

Painted lady butterfly timelapse

SharePoint workflow + list item edit + value cannot be null

Tip: Error occurred in deployment step Activate Features: Object not set to an instance of an object

SharePoint 2010 + Associate workflow to Content Type in a feature

SharePoint + Visual Studio + Get Current User

Tip: infopath comments and newline textbox

Visual Studio 2010 Workflow + Infopath 2010 forms - troubleshooting

Could not load web.config file. The given key was not present in the dictionary.

new SPSite - FileNotFoundException

Simplified deleting in OSX Finder

Turbocharge your SQL development: get more out of SQL Server Management Studio

Quick tip: Use OVER to get row numbers in subsets

Guide: MOSS 2007 Multiple site collections on Port 80

Allalinhorn (the easy way)

The Weissmies Traverse

Saas Valley 2010

VW Polo GTi 6n2 electric window switches refurbishment

Troubleshooting BDC Associations and Related Data List Web part

Set SharePoint BDC field value programmatically in Visual Studio workflow

Simplified SharePoint solution deployment

Extend SharePoint Designer's workflow activities

Updating Alesis DM5 drum machine firmware

Reporting a product bug to Microsoft

How to remove a Datatool System 3 from a Honda CBR600FX

Force comment entry when editing a list item

Canon IP5200R wireless printing + OSX 10.6.* Snow Leopard

Workflow error help: failed on start and more

Business Data Catalog tips, hints and errors

My iPhone experience

Famous. Again.

Wireless backups: USB drive, Airport extreme and Time Machine

Matt on BBC website

The Legend of Vino DiGiovanni

Leopard, iTunes & Airport Express: An unknown error occurred (-3256)

Free D-Link G624T Wireless router. (Kind of.)

Crossroads - Stamford, CT

If I thought that was paradise... - Barra de La Cruz, Mexico

Paradise Found? - Puerto Escondido, Mexico

Video Interlude - Mexico

Migrating millions, Monarch mariposa - Michoacan, Mexico

Back to Bedlam - Mexico City and Michoacan, Mexico

One (More) Night in New York

Cancun, Chechen Itza and Tulum, Mexico

Viñales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Trinidad, Santa Clara and Varadero, Cuba

Change of scenery - Cienfuegos, Cuba

Taxi? Amigo, Taxi? TAXI!? - La Habana, Cuba

A lesson in being disorganised - Nassau, Bahamas

Do you play Scrabble? - Eleuthera, Bahamas

New York... still.

New York

Niagara Falls and Montreal

Toronto

Packing fun

Matt's travel blog is a go

4 years, 4 hours and 4 letters*

It's been a long time coming

R.I.P my friend

Southampton to Santander on a motorbike

flickr is awesome

Interesting stat

Awesome programming cock-up

Petrolheads

Couple months late, but nevermind

Imagelists in VS2005

Poo in the sea

And so it begins.

Matt's Gone to Ireland

CBR600 FX Cam Chain Tension Lifter (CCTL)

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