Month: January 2009
SQL Tips – List of New Zealand Towns and Cities
Here is SQL and a text list of the towns and cities in New Zealand. The list is free for all to use for any purpose. The original data was sourced from Wikipedia on Saturday 31 January 2008….
Read More »SHA256 and higher in SQL Server
As part of a new project I’m doing, I needed to use hashes. A good source of information on hashes is available from wikipedia. SQL has the built in function HASHBYTES but this only supports up to the…
Read More »Happy Birthday Opportunity
Following on from my earlier post. The Mars rover Opportunity has now been successfully on the martian surface for 5 years. I have information on the Spirit rover on my earlier post (link at top of this one)….
Read More »SQL Tips – List of US States
Here is SQL and a tab delimited list of the States of the USA for all to use. The original data was sourced from Wikipedia. Please post a comment if you find this useful. Edit: I’ve beed advised…
Read More »Happy Birthday Apple Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh was introduced on the 24th January 1984. Image source: Wikipedia. Happy 25th birthday, you’ve come a long way.
Read More »SQL Tips – List of Countries
This data was published in 2009 and is understandably out of date. Click here for an updated (2018) revision. Here is SQL and a tab delimited list of Countries for all to use. The original data was sourced…
Read More »SQL Tips – List of International Dialling Codes (IDC's)
I’ve been working on a new project and needed a list of International Dialling Codes to insert into my database. Here are the results of my work for all to use. The list is supplied as SQL and…
Read More »Mac OS X – Remote Desktop Client UK Keyboard Bug Fix
I use the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (Version 2.0.0 Beta 3) to connect to a number of Windows machines from my Mac laptop. There is one very annoying ‘feature’ when using the Remote Desktop Client with a MacBook…
Read More »Apollo Newspapers – Daily Mail, 11 July 1969
The Daily Mail released a few pullout sheets about the moon mission. They were called “Moon Mail”. Here is the Moon Mail from 11 July 1969.
Read More »Apollo Newspapers – Daily Mail, 10 July 1969
The Daily Mail released a few pullout sheets about the moon mission. They were called “Moon Mail”. Here is the Moon Mail from 10 July 1969.
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