“Value cannot be null. Parameter name: encoder” when importing with Toad for MySQL

I’ve been working on importing some data sets for a project tonight and keep coming across the error message “Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: encoder” when using Toad for MySQL v.4.1.  The files I’m importing are comma separated text files where strings (text) are not enclosed in any quotation characters.  As an aside, I’ve [...]

Excel Sparklines

About a month ago I upgraded to Vista Enterprise and Office 2007 Professional on my desktop computer and boy howdy have I been seeing this message frequently!

Grrrrr…another shutdown!

This has not been a fully random experience but occurs when modifying data series and axes in graphs.  Some days I don’t experience a shutdown at all while [...]