Explore a diverse collection of blog posts spanning family, travel, sport, and techโespecially cricket, rugby, Microsoft SQL Server, and data analytics. With a standout travel section offering insights into incredible destinations around the world, every article is conveniently grouped by year for easy access and discovery.
I've always been a YYYY-MM-DD kind of person. I hereby display my archives in such a format.
2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1997
2025 (4)
- 2025-01-09 - Gold Coast BBQ with Old Mates, Banter & Ocean Views
- 2025-01-07 - Gold Coast Fun: VR Battles & Movie World Magic
- 2025-01-05 - A Dog Friendly Gold Coast Getaway at Broadbeach
2024 (1)
2023 (6)
- 2023-12-14 - Intimate and secluded retreat in Nusa Dua, Bali
- 2023-12-09 - Ubud - Incredible Stay in Baliโs Cultural Heart
- 2023-06-17 - A Disney Degustation Dream at Nel Sydney
2022 (4)
- 2022-09-16 - An Unbelievable Family Photo Session in Fiji
- 2022-09-14 - Family Adventure at Plantation Island, Fiji
2021 (1)
2020 (2)
- 2020-05-22 - MYSQL - Find Starting With Lowercase Letter
- 2020-02-04 - 41st Birthday Glamping at Paperbark Camp, Jervis Bay
2019 (3)
- 2019-04-20 - Celebrating My Nieceโs 18th Birthday in Townsville
2018 (11)
- 2018-12-10 - A Father-Son Journey - Trekking Northern Thailand
- 2018-08-24 - A Scenic Picnic and Day Out at Cataract Dam
- 2018-06-17 - Unforgettable Mudgee Wine Weekend with Friends
- 2018-01-01 - Looking Back on 2017: Love, Growth & Highlights
2017 (33)
- 2017-09-14 - Whitby: A Seaside Town of History, Legends & Dracula
- 2017-08-31 - Exploring Carnasserie Castle: A Quiet Scottish Ruin
- 2017-08-23 - Exploring Renfrewshire โ A Scottish Homecoming
- 2017-08-23 - Exploring Urquhart Castle on the Shores of Loch Ness
- 2017-08-06 - A Perfect Beach Day in Maroubra: Family, Sun & Play
- 2017-07-30 - A Perfect Winter Day at Coogee Beach with the Family
- 2017-06-20 - Bruny Island Cheese & Wine: A Must-Visit in Tasmania
- 2017-06-17 - Cradle Mountain & Dove Lake: A Stunning Winter Hike
- 2017-06-02 - Team-Building in Sydney: Louie's Visit to Australia
- 2017-02-27 - Exploring Tagaytay & Taal Volcano: Our First Getaway
- 2017-01-27 - Australia Day From Hilltop Cottage
- 2017-01-01 - Looking Back on 2016: A Year of Change & Growth
2016 (10)
- 2016-12-02 - Lions & Salt Pans: Exploring Botswanaโs Nxai Pan
- 2016-11-21 - The great South African road trip
- 2016-03-31 - Hidden Camping Gem: Beehive Point, Kangaroo Valley
- 2016-01-01 - Looking Back on 2015: Travel, Family & Highlights
2015 (21)
- 2015-12-27 - Christmas at Mercure, Boxing Day BBQ & Dadโs 60th
- 2015-12-11 - Surprising a Mate at His Ohio Wedding From Australia
- 2015-06-17 - Distinct Combination Selection in SQL
- 2015-04-29 - Hayden turns 7
- 2015-04-28 - Clear SSRS Report Cache
- 2015-04-25 - Liam Turns 13 - Surprise Trip to Brisbane
- 2015-04-22 - Subtract days, weeks etc in SSRS
- 2015-04-02 - Grant Elliott discusses World Cup final sledging
- 2015-03-14 - CWC15 - Australia v Scotland in Hobart
- 2015-03-09 - CWC15 - Australia v Sri Lanka in Sydney
- 2015-02-27 - CWC15 - South Africa v West Indies in Sydney
- 2015-02-22 - CWC15 โ Australia v Bangladesh in Brisbane
- 2015-02-15 - CWC15 - Australia v England in Melbourne
- 2015-02-01 - Nevan Turns 15: Celebrating a Milestone Birthday
- 2015-01-26 - Big Bash T20 Thriller: Last Ball Win at the SCG
- 2015-01-21 - Create a Custom Sort Order in SSRS/Paginated Reports
- 2015-01-01 - Looking Back on 2014: Milestones & Memories
2014 (29)
- 2014-12-30 - SSRS and Project Subfolders
- 2014-10-28 - Multiple labels on bar chart
- 2014-10-08 - SSRS Display Issues In Chrome
- 2014-09-27 - Katherine turns 1
- 2014-09-18 - Download all Report Server RDL's
- 2014-09-10 - An error occurred within the report server database
- 2014-07-25 - Excel 2010 - Set Default Template
- 2014-07-24 - Find SSRS subscriptions of an email address
- 2014-07-10 - Hide #DIV/0! From Excel Pivot Table
- 2014-07-06 - Create CSV from file names in Windows folder
- 2014-07-04 - Find the datatypes of a SQL #temp table
- 2014-07-01 - Excel Lookup - Maintain Date Format
- 2014-06-26 - Sort In Original Order When Grouping
- 2014-06-24 - Get First Day & Last Day of Last Week
- 2014-05-25 - Find all tables with specific column name
- 2014-05-19 - Goodbye Solutions Outsourced, Oran Park
- 2014-05-08 - PHP POST method not posting "type=file" variable
- 2014-05-05 - MySQL Fulltext Index not working
- 2014-04-26 - Liam turns 12
- 2014-04-23 - Archives
- 2014-04-22 - SSRS - Hide textbox if no data
- 2014-04-07 - SSRS - Force Proper Case
- 2014-03-06 - Update value from SUM(values) in another table
- 2014-02-02 - Nevan turns 14
- 2014-01-26 - Family Abseiling Adventure at Mt Keira, Wollongong
- 2014-01-14 - Find text in Stored Procedures
2013 (7)
- 2013-11-17 - Most Active Databases in SQL Server
- 2013-09-27 - Welcome Baby Katherine
- 2013-06-30 - Delete rows in Excel from a list
- 2013-05-15 - How to find my full sitepath?
- 2013-03-23 - 2012-13 - That Tied Illawarra 2nd Grade Grand Final
- 2013-03-07 - Hide SSRS Toolbar
2012 (6)
- 2012-07-20 - SSRS โ Alternate Row Colors of A Group
- 2012-07-15 - Get First Day of the Quarter
- 2012-07-13 - SSRS โ Mixed formatting breaks hyperlink action
- 2012-07-11 - SSRS โ Capitalize the first letter
- 2012-07-02 - Get first & last day of the month
- 2012-06-21 - Repeat header columns on each page not working
2011 (6)
- 2011-09-08 - Go Daddy Apache Upgrade
- 2011-07-01 - Michael's New Car
- 2011-02-03 - Set Play Count in iTunes
- 2011-01-19 - Twenty20 Big Bash
- 2011-01-06 - Ashes 2010/11 - Sydney Test
- 2011-01-01 - Camping Narooma
2010 (19)
- 2010-12-10 - Muse Gig
- 2010-11-21 - Good Charlotte Gig
- 2010-08-19 - Nevan 3rd in District Discus
- 2010-07-03 - Nevan makes District Discus
- 2010-06-19 - South Coast Hike
- 2010-05-31 - Nevan makes District X-Country
- 2010-05-27 - Styling Facebook โ XBox 360 Theme
- 2010-05-26 - MySQL GROUP_CONCAT returns [BLOB - 14 B]
- 2010-05-07 - When things go bump in the night
- 2010-05-02 - My First Butchers Annual Presentation
- 2010-04-30 - Need some SQL dates?
- 2010-04-29 - Hayden turns 2
- 2010-04-28 - Camping Shoalhaven Heads
- 2010-04-25 - Liam turns 8
- 2010-04-12 - The US Masters - 2010
- 2010-02-07 - Beach Day With Family and the Bensteads
- 2010-01-31 - Nevan turns 10
- 2010-01-24 - Sheep Shearing
- 2010-01-22 - Mt Kosciuszko
2009 (10)
- 2009-12-01 - Jenifer's New Car
- 2009-10-17 - Camping Ulladulla with the Bensteads
- 2009-09-30 - NRL Grand Final 2009
- 2009-05-19 - Gold Coast Holiday
- 2009-04-28 - Hayden turns 1
- 2009-04-25 - Liam turns 7
- 2009-03-14 - The US Masters - 2009
- 2009-02-05 - I am 30
- 2009-02-01 - Nevan turns 9
- 2009-01-15 - Family Holiday & Kangarooโs
2008 (6)
- 2008-12-30 - My 10 Songs of the past 10 Years
- 2008-12-25 - Hayden's First Christmas
- 2008-12-21 - Liam stung by a Jellyfish
- 2008-11-11 - Fun Tech Stuff for November
- 2008-10-27 - Launching a New Site - Butcher Cricket
- 2008-08-06 - Why Quickflix is bad
2007 (26)
- 2007-10-14 - Man of the match
- 2007-10-09 - First Grade - Round Two
- 2007-10-01 - First Grade Debut
- 2007-10-01 - Selected for First Grade
- 2007-09-15 - 50,621
- 2007-09-07 - Heart-pounding Friday night
- 2007-09-03 - Eels make me happy on Fathers Day
- 2007-08-16 - Hey Experts Exchange!
- 2007-07-25 - I'm not sure it gets better than this
- 2007-07-23 - Funny moment of the day
- 2007-07-13 - Our couch has finally arrived
- 2007-07-12 - Christmas Magic at Disneyland & California Adventure
- 2007-06-24 - My brother & family visits
- 2007-06-20 - Yes or No Optus?
- 2007-05-14 - Sunrise with My Feet Wet: A Secluded Stay in Moorea
- 2007-05-13 - Est-il difficile de comprendre mon accent?
- 2007-04-20 - Adam Parore - Are you kidding me?
- 2007-04-02 - My Gallery is back
- 2007-03-28 - Cricket - Arrogance = Dominance
- 2007-03-27 - Monitor Disk Space on your SQL Server
- 2007-03-27 - What a difference a month makes
- 2007-03-26 - South Africa - Still Chokers
- 2007-01-24 - You say Emo...
2006 (10)
- 2006-12-26 - I have a patience problem when I am batting
- 2006-12-18 - Australia Win The Ashes
- 2006-11-07 - Business in the Caribbean
- 2006-09-18 - G'day from Melbourne
- 2006-07-07 - Meeting & Playing the Stars
- 2006-06-28 - Cricket - LA Open - I'll be playing
- 2006-05-30 - Memorial Day Weekend
- 2006-05-17 - My Hectic Two Weeks
- 2006-03-09 - Back from Australia
- 2006-01-09 - The radio triangle
2005 (10)
- 2005-10-20 - Sydney Cricket Ground
- 2005-10-19 - Snow!
- 2005-10-16 - When there is no cricket?
- 2005-10-08 - We are the champions!
- 2005-10-06 - Cricket Awards
- 2005-10-02 - The all-rounder coming alive
- 2005-09-28 - Blazing in the middle
- 2005-08-25 - Featured in Softball West magazine
- 2005-08-01 - Amazing cricket match!
- 2005-02-01 - Nevan turns 5
2004 (16)
- 2004-11-26 - First Ski Trip Of The Season
- 2004-10-14 - Cricket recognition
- 2004-09-13 - Amazing catch
- 2004-08-01 - New Car - Subaru
- 2004-07-25 - Horribly eventful weekend
- 2004-07-03 - Cricket versus CSU
- 2004-06-26 - Mush Ball Out x2
- 2004-06-19 - Mush Ball Out
- 2004-04-26 - Liam turns 2
- 2004-03-24 - Exploring Colorado
- 2004-03-23 - Jenifer learns to Snowboard
- 2004-03-18 - Las Vegas Convention 2004
- 2004-02-01 - Nevan turns 4
- 2004-01-17 - 6 Years in the USA!
- 2004-01-01 - Happy New Year 2004
2003 (22)
- 2003-12-25 - December & Christmas
- 2003-12-19 - The Family Is Here!
- 2003-11-24 - Trip to Pittsburgh, PA
- 2003-11-11 - Portable DVD Player
- 2003-10-11 - Autumn colours
- 2003-10-11 - New SLR Camera
- 2003-09-21 - Camping in Durango, Colorado
- 2003-07-15 - New Home & Vacation
- 2003-05-29 - Liam is walking
- 2003-05-20 - Raleigh/Durham, NC
- 2003-04-26 - Liam turns 1
- 2003-04-09 - April Photos, 2003
- 2003-03-23 - A Day On Lake Vallecito, Colorado
- 2003-03-17 - Just the boys...
- 2003-03-13 - Creative People
- 2003-03-04 - Cricket World Cup!
- 2003-02-27 - Winter Wonderland again
- 2003-02-24 - Site redesign
- 2003-02-18 - New Photos
- 2003-02-11 - Knocked out cold
- 2003-02-01 - Nevan turns 3
2002 (37)
- 2002-12-31 - Christmas Day 2002
- 2002-11-22 - Thanksgiving 2002
- 2002-11-02 - California friends visit
- 2002-10-04 - Snow photos
- 2002-09-20 - First Family Portrait
- 2002-09-09 - Softball is over!
- 2002-08-30 - What's New?
- 2002-08-23 - Day trip to Ouray, Colorado
- 2002-07-24 - Silverton, Colorado Trip
- 2002-07-15 - Camping with Rick & Jaimee in Utah
- 2002-06-26 - A new fire
- 2002-06-26 - La Plata Canyon
- 2002-06-23 - Day in the Colorado Mountains
- 2002-06-22 - Mixed Game of Softball
- 2002-06-17 - Hanging out with Jaimee Callies
- 2002-06-15 - Durango Fires
- 2002-06-05 - Made it to Durango
- 2002-05-24 - New job - Database Analyst
- 2002-05-19 - Vegas Nights & New Friendships on a Business Trip
- 2002-05-15 - Viva Las Vegas 2002
- 2002-04-26 - Liam
- 2002-04-25 - Funny true story
- 2002-04-22 - Personal Site retouches
- 2002-04-11 - Amazing photos!
- 2002-04-07 - Back from Colorado
- 2002-03-28 - World Champion Half Life DMC Player
- 2002-03-21 - Do You Play Half Life?
- 2002-03-06 - Back in North Carolina
- 2002-03-03 - Nevan turns 2
- 2002-03-03 - My directions, gone...
- 2002-02-26 - Working hard on the SLO Rugby site
- 2002-02-14 - Trip to Broomfield, CO
- 2002-02-14 - North Carolina
- 2002-01-28 - San Luis Obispo v Kern County
- 2002-01-28 - San Luis Obispo v San Fernando
- 2002-01-16 - 4 Years Tomorrow
- 2002-01-01 - 4 Years Today!
2001 (22)
- 2001-12-25 - Merry Christmas 2001
- 2001-12-20 - It's chilly in Oregon
- 2001-12-10 - Alaska vs American
- 2001-12-10 - Getting jacked around on another trip
- 2001-12-06 - I'm trying to learn flash
- 2001-12-02 - It's a boy!
- 2001-11-26 - Business trip to Phoenix, AZ
- 2001-11-23 - In LA for Thanksgiving
- 2001-11-20 - Rugby - San Luis Obispo v Arroyo Grande
- 2001-11-16 - Softball November 12th-15th
- 2001-11-11 - Install in Los Angeles
- 2001-11-10 - Softball November 6th-8th
- 2001-11-02 - New York Yankees
- 2001-10-31 - Doing nothing in Georgia
- 2001-10-31 - Softball October 29th-2nd
- 2001-10-24 - Fractured Wrist
- 2001-10-23 - Softball October 22nd-26th
- 2001-10-21 - In Columbus a little longer
- 2001-10-16 - Softball October 15th-19th
- 2001-10-11 - Softball October 8th-12th
- 2001-10-09 - Looks like I am traveling again
- 2001-10-09 - We are expecting!
2000 (1)
- 2000-02-01 - Nevan
1997 (1)
- 1997-05-29 - The Bus
