My son’s car broke down last Sunday – in a very inconvenient spot. Those of you familiar with Orlando will understand when I tell you where be broke down. Matthew was on his way to pick up my father – so they could go to the Orlando Science Center and the Taylor Guitar exhibit that […]
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Removing all .svn folders from a folder via Windows batch
June 17, 2011 
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I needed to delete all .svn subversion folders and the files within them and did not want to take the time to do it manually. This little command prompt script will recurse a folder and delete all folders names “.svn” and all the files within. for /d /r . %d in (.svn) do @if exist […]
Continue reading Executing multiple SQL scripts against a MySQL database from a DOS batch file
June 10, 2011 8 Comments
[updated 2011-06-10 because a friend pointed out a flaw in my assumption that I needed to enter the password every time – see bottom for updates] I am architecting a project that is a C# front end, hitting SOAP web services, that communicate with a C# core, and has a MySQL database backend (accessed using a […]
Continue readingThe Biker’s Creed
June 1, 2011 0 Comments
I ride because it is fun. I ride because I enjoy the freedom I feel from being exposed to the elements, and the vulnerability to the danger that is intrinsic to riding. I do not ride because it is fashionable to do so. I ride my machine, not wear it. My machine is not a […]
Continue reading My Most Popular Search Term: “Lip Cancer”
May 30, 2011 0 Comments
If there were a content on the most popular search terms that land results on Binarybiker.com. the term “lip cancer” would be the clear winner – with over seven (7) times the hit relevancy than any other term. This is my SEO claim to fame: lip cancer. Apparently, many people with mouth sores, fever blisters, […]
Continue reading Current Controversies: Patriotism
May 27, 2011 2 Comments
The Binary Biker has been published (again)! A blog post I wrote in 2010 on Patriotism was picked up and included in a textbook titled Current Controversies: Patriotism. Published by Greenhaven Press, the text is part of a collection of books that touch on hot and emerging topics in today’s world. From the publisher’s website: Each […]
Continue reading Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
May 27, 2011 0 Comments
Senior pranksters at my son’s high school sprayed the school with silly string and Saran wrap the day before yesterday. Because of the school’s Zero Tolerance policy, the police are involved and, if caught, the offenders will face criminal charges of trespass and vandalism – marks on their criminals records that will follow them the […]
Continue reading Why didn’t Osama bin Laden get a trial?
May 20, 2011 7 Comments
On May 1st, 2001 I checked my smartphone phone before I went to bed and saw that the President of the United States was preparing an important press announcement and would be addressing the nation live. A late-night, unplanned, Presidential address; something big was happening. Feelings of dread filled me as crawled out of bed, […]
Continue reading Leesburg Bikefest 2011
April 9, 2011 1 Comment
This was my first year at the Leesburg Bikefest. I always imagined it being some rinky-dink affair, a pale clone of Daytona’s Bikeweek or Biketoberfest. After all, it’s in Leesburg, a rinky-dink town about 45 miles outside of Orlando, without even the benefit of a beach nearby to draw visitors. I was absolutely wrong. Leesburg […]
Continue reading Cancer is a Terrorist
February 24, 2011 2 Comments
On September 11, 2001 a group of determined terrorists shocked, horrified, and angered the nation by killing over 2,000 people on our own soil. America found out that where we thought we were safest, we were vulnerable. We learned that where we thought ourselves strong, we were weak. It was a critical blow to our […]
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