May 2005 - Posts

Existentialism meets Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Installs

Published Tue, May 31 2005 23:32 | William

Be forewarned that this is going to be one of thoes “What's Bill Smoking” types of posts. However I am 'all natural' in that regard so any weirdness is purely just a coincidence. Back in undergrad I was a philosophy major as I've mentioned...

Filed under: Me

Tisk Tisk

Published Mon, May 30 2005 21:05 | William

I've posted many times about how many of the phishing attempts I get hit with have glaring holes in them. It never ceases to amaze me that people with apparently sophisticated technical skills, that cover just about every imaginable base technologically...

Filed under: News

My Love Affair with X10

Published Mon, May 30 2005 13:13 | William

I just got the first leg of my project cranking and I'm a lot more enthused about the possibilities than I have been so far. One of the biggest obstacles I saw originally was that I am a very dangerous person when it comes to fix'er up type project. I...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Misc Technology

http://poxxx-downxxx.d4f.xx/

Published Sun, May 29 2005 4:43 | William

Hmm, I was checking through my referrers and well, I'm not sure what's going on . No spam on the comments but all over my referrers is http://xxxxxxdownload.d4f.xxx I mean EVERYWHERE. I was checking through and the last 30 posts have a ton of stuff coming...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Fedex API

Published Sat, May 28 2005 15:38 | William

Since Web Services have become cool, I've tried to do as much with major commercial ones as I can. The problem is that in professional terms, I haven't had many requirements where I really needed to use them. I'm written some utilities for my own use...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General, Misc Technology

One week with TV

Published Sat, May 28 2005 10:28 | William

Grew up in a family where TV didn't really play much of a part. Sure, we had a few, as well as cable, but the folks never got into watching it, and after MTV started sucking when I was like 15, I quit watching it. Ok, I watched Beavis and Butthead. I...

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Donating to an extremely worthy cause

Published Thu, May 26 2005 9:31 | William

A fellow MVP and all around good guy, Michael G just went through what can only be described as one of the most sad things I've come across. I still can't really read any of his current posts without getting choked up. His family went to Guatemalla to...

Filed under: Life in General

I guess it's serious

Published Tue, May 24 2005 11:00 | William

I still think this is a real - after all I got burned by the Landover site thinking it was real, but something keeps telling me it's a goof.

Filed under: Humor

Tobin and I get some Ink

Published Mon, May 23 2005 17:11 | William

This was a cool mention .

Filed under: Me

Refactoring Tools Revisited

Published Sun, May 22 2005 19:04 | William

Well, I just flipped through John Papa's blog entries and saw the follow up article to the first one on .NET Refactoring tools . I've plugged it before, but if you haven't tried .NET Refactor yet, I'd like to encourage you do give it a try if you're looking...

Filed under: .NET General

Appropriate use for Jar Jar Binks

Published Fri, May 20 2005 17:11 | William

This has to be the funniest thing I ever saw, ever! .

Filed under: Humor

Chris Tacke is the Man

Published Thu, May 19 2005 13:00 | William

Skicow just sent me this SPOT Link from Chris Tacke . I remember the first time I met Chris back at the MVP summit and he was discussing throwing the CLR on a PIC and possibly creating OpenNet.PIC which would be cool indeed. If there's a more impressive...

Filed under: Compact Framework, MVP Stuff

e.e. chesnut

Published Thu, May 19 2005 11:20 | William

I never read the optionsScalper but his response to KC was pretty funny. I never saw As good as it gets personally. I tried sitting through the first 5 minutes and my response was a la Butthead “Uhhh, change this or kill me”. I don't know...

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Microsoft.Winfx.Targets

Published Tue, May 17 2005 21:39 | William

I have every other Target file I need but this one. So far, my IDE on all virtual hard drive images (February and March CTP) will come up and then just go away. Nada in the event log. So I'm commandline boy. Not a biggy, I'm spoiled after all but not...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Beta induced Psychosis.

Published Tue, May 17 2005 17:53 | William

If you live in the Greenville area and you see some goofy looking guy that resembles me, run for it. I'm about at my wits end. Last week, I had all my demo stuff ready for code camp. I bought a new USB Drive, installed a clean build of Magneto and the...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Misc Technology

TiBA Solutions in the News

Published Tue, May 17 2005 12:11 | William

Even though I was only minimally involved on this particular project, one of our bigger projects made the news and it's cool to see your company in the news.

Filed under: Me

Julie Lerman Cool..

Published Mon, May 16 2005 23:34 | William

Ok, when you describe coders, you often references others. Well, I met Tammy Pettway and she is definitely Julie Lerman cool and Julia Lerman smart (which is what I would be if I figured out a way to take on a quick 2000 IQ points on the quick.). This...

Filed under: Data Access

Holding my feet to the fire

Published Mon, May 16 2005 23:27 | William

Chris Williams took notice and layed down the guantlet. With kind words like his, coupled with such a good challenge, I must make it so.... It will happen.

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, Misc Technology

If the past is any indicator...

Published Mon, May 16 2005 20:54 | William

then this this is damned sure going to be a must have book!

Filed under: Data Access, Books, .NET General

Atlanta Code Camp

Published Mon, May 16 2005 19:34 | William

I'm late to blogging this one, but I'm sure everyone else has covered it. All in all it was a great event. Had a rather hectic beginning though. 5:00 Am on Saturday, Kim and I haeded to the airport to rent a car. Unfortunately, Greenville/Spartanburg...

Filed under: News, Speech Server, Misc Technology, Code Camps