July 2006 - Posts

Off to Redmond for a while

Published Sun, Jul 9 2006 10:58 | William

Well, I'm heading out to Redmond for a few weeks for work on a top secret project. I got food poisoning the other night and have been out of commission for the past few days but I'm starting to feel normal again. Food poison sucks. Anyway, I'm flying...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001

Published Thu, Jul 6 2006 6:34 | William

Just as an FYI about this... If you are using the documentation for WSE 3.0 and trying opening it after installing IE7 - you get an error with the following message "Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001" This is a total drag b/c all...

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Errata for 70-536

Published Wed, Jul 5 2006 1:42 | William

I just wanted to open up a discussion on it so here it is . I'll be posting updates/corrections/everything else there and if anyone is interested in posting, the floor is open. Please use the link above (here it is) to post. For some reason there...

Filed under: Life in General, Books, Me, Misc Technology, Certification

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Gets Cracked

Published Tue, Jul 4 2006 20:32 | William

Took'em 1 year to crack PGP? My a55. It took them about an hour to have some dude at the NSA crack it, then they spent the rest of the year waiting to make the announcement

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology

A great guy makes MVP

Published Mon, Jul 3 2006 23:56 | William

Well, I've seen quite a few of my friends make MVP ( Scott , Chris , Sahil , Tobin , Brian to name just a few) but now I can add one more. . Not only did Marshall get the Microsoft MVP Award , it appears they added a group for Speech Server which is awesome...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff

Stealing code ;-(

Published Mon, Jul 3 2006 23:45 | William

I don't know why I even let it bother me but a lot of times is still does. Usually starts out with me working on something, an article, a book, a newsgroup question. I start searching around and use words that I think describe what I'm looking for. Low...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques