Author Archives: Kelly Martinez

Cutting the Cable (or dish in this case)

After experiencing another rate increase with DirecTV we had finally have enough. When we really sat down and discussed what channels we watch and what satellite was offering we found that we were basically paying $80 a month for a handful of crappy shows. Going in we knew we wanted Netflix, Amazon VOD, and Hulu.… Read More »

Restarting Services with PowerShell

Thought I’d share a script I use to reset services nightly. This script will also e-mail if something goes wrong on the restart (which hasn’t ever been the case so far). This specific reason I built this is for a Tomcat server that has some problems with errand threads (I didn’t build it and can’t… Read More »

PSA: Sleep Apnea (Follow-up)

So a few months ago I posted about sleep apnea and my experiences in getting diagnosed and treated. It’s been about 3 months now and I have to say it took about 2 months to totally get used to the mask at night (see pic). One thing for me that was interesting is that it… Read More »

Twitter to SQL Server with Powershell

Had an idea the other day that it might be nice to be able to grab tweets based on a keyword and populate a SQL Server table. So I put together the following simple PowerShell script to do just that. First I create “tweet” table under a database called TwitterDB: [sql] CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tweets]( [published]… Read More »