Brian Desmond's Blog : None of the Above

Slick Site - GrubHub.com

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:27:04 GMT

If you happen to live in Chicago, New York, Boston, or San Francisco, GrubHub.com is definitely a site worth checking out. I'd heard of it but never tried it until last night, and it's great. The site has a very extensive collection of restaurants...(read more)

Books I Recommend

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:48:58 GMT

I get a lot of what book would you recommend about ____ questions, so I thought I'd start piecing together a list of books I recommend. I added a link at the top of the site called Recommend Books, or you can go directly to http://briandesmond.com/blog...(read more)

Happy Holidays!

Brian Desmond's Blog — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:53:00 GMT

Happy holidays to everyone! Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More......(read more)

New Look for the Site

Brian Desmond's Blog — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:32:00 GMT

After a couple hours of customization, I activated a new theme for the BrianDesmond.com site. The old look was the same theme I had when I started a blog on weblogs.asp.net in 2003. I felt like it was kind of depressing to look at the old colors - there...(read more)

Posting from Windows Live Writer

Brian Desmond's Blog — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:44:26 GMT

One of my MCS friends, Jeff Rosen has been hinting that there was some new toy coming down the pipe. He emailed me tonight with it, so I'm trying it out. The tool has a preset for Community Server, but it still didn't work out of the box. One of the behaviors...(read more)

Broken Links

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:53:00 GMT

If you find any broken links here, send me an email or leave a comment. I think I caught them all, but the manner in which the software this site runs on makes URLs is rather complex and I don't really understand the config files, so it's pretty entirely...(read more)

Site Fixed

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:43:00 GMT

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think...(read more)

Comments Disabled

Brian Desmond's Blog — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:30:00 GMT

I've temporarily disabled comments until I can get a verification system in to deal with the blog spam Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More......(read more)

Site Move/Upgrade

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:39:00 GMT

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid...(read more)