The 1st control I’ve uploaded is a simple recent blog comments list. Everything is css’ible (is that a word?) which will make it easier for other users to modify.

Check it out

Well if you have ever had to go through the maze that is the Calgary Transit website to try and find what your next bus time is, I guarantee you’d be exstatic. Trying to find out what your next bus time is like finding a needle in a haystack. Well ok, it’s a little better then that, but if you ever went to their old site, let just say it was difficult.

Now that Google includes transit maps and times, I can look on a map to where my bus stop actually is, and what time it’s going to come next. See the little dots on the map in the blue lines. Those are bus stops. If I click on those little dots, I can find out what buses stop there and when they’re coming next.

How simple is that? Calgary Transit..take notice.

So next time, you find yourself asking when the next bus is actually going to come, try google maps. You might actually be surprised!

Back in May of 2009 I posted

Since then, I’m over 2,000 a month. Now remember, I don’t delete anything, and after 30 days, they automatically delete. I’m currently at 2,555 spam emails per month, and you know what? Not one has hit my inbox in like 6 months.

I’ll continue to put my email into everything…why? Because Gmail does an unbelievable job at taking it out. 95% of all emails are spam, if not one hits my inbox it doesn’t even bother me.

So spammers…email mattkiazyk@gmail.com – If you dare!

Hope this helps somebody. It’ll help me next time I forget how to get rid of it.

and this

Now I’m not sure how long this took to build these, but damn! If only you could convince the corporate world that doing visualizations with things other then bar and line graphs

The latest has been using the Microsoft jdbc connector. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to add it into my project and get the project to actually connect to it. Well after struggling for a while I finally figured it out.

1. Import your sqljdbc.jar file into your project
2. Add it to your referenced libraries in your project properties.
3. The one that got me. In your runtime Classpath settings (plugin.xml), set a reference to the imported jar file.

Hope this helps anybody who’s trying to get Eclipse connecting to SQL Server properly.

Hilarious.  What’s a brother to do when he can’t fly his own personal jet anymore because it’s too expensive! Well he must fly commerical now. Well at least he still has first class!

It was a close vote, but in the end, the ranger died

So after a four month long poll, yet another Canadian beer legend is leaving us. While personally he wasn’t my favourite, it still made for funny commercials.

Although there’s nothing more Canadian like and more satisfying when you find the sasquatch on the Kokanne beer can.

But the all time favourtite beer personality is the Alexandar Keith’s Scotsman. From the infamous label peeler to spilly talker to the “you broke it’s neck”.  Too bad he got charged with child pornography posession. Wonder where his career went after that?