August 2007 - Posts

Humor: Hipster Olympics

Published Sun, Aug 26 2007 17:10 | William

Excellent

August 23, 2007 Ask An Expert Live Chat

Published Thu, Aug 23 2007 16:23 | William

I've been meaning to post details about this earlier, but well, I didn't. Anyway, full details are available here . I'll be flying back to Atlanta this evening so I won't be participating, but if previous ones are any indication, it'll...

Professor Hoe Tester's new album is now out

Published Thu, Aug 23 2007 13:57 | William

For those of you in the audience that are fellow rap fans, Professor Hoe Tester aka HoeTester just released his CD Pimping and Preaching . Pure lyrical genius coupled with hypnotic hooks come together to make for some utterly excellent jams. If you're...

And Apple Basic is included for Free!

Published Sat, Aug 18 2007 18:23 | William

Twenty years from now, we'll be laughing about the same sort of stuff

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

Tracking Wikipedia 'edits'

Published Thu, Aug 16 2007 18:58 | William

If you use Wikipedia much, you have no doubt come across a page that has been vandalized. While vandalism is in the eye of the beholder to some extent, there are clear rules there and I've seen many posts that clearly violate the rules - no question...

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Free Silverlight Training

Published Tue, Aug 14 2007 20:53 | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

A little stastician humor

Published Mon, Aug 13 2007 19:54 | William

Not sure if you ever read A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper but this is very reminiscent of it . If you have any math geek tendencies, you'll probably enjoy it though.

Filed under: Humor

Great minds think alike

Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 16:06 | William

Shawn posted a great article discussing the Linux Foundation's call for Nixers to show some respect to MS folks, where it's due. Not surprisingly, Shawn was dead on right again.

Filed under: Misc Technology, Open Source

Passenger's bill of duties

Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 10:39 | William

Athough it's been relatively slow in the past few months, I typically have to engage in a good bit of air travel and it seems that many developers/consultants I know are in the same boat.. TSA and similar concerns have made air travel more frustrating...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Romney GirlS Enter the battle

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 21:36 | William

For reasons I probably should not publicly acknowledge, I've found the whole Obama Girl thing pretty slick. I really wouldn't mind seeing all the old school ads replaced with these sort of things. I was having a pretty hard time figuring out who...

Filed under: Humor

Worst I.T. Excuses

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 5:44 | William

It works on my machine It doesn't matter because no one will ever do that Users like it the way it is I don't write any bugs It'll be fixed in the next release It'll be ready on Monday, we just need to build the setup package The spam...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Theory matters after all...

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 4:53 | William

There are many discussions developers have with each other that always make for interesting discussions. One of the best ones is "How much does a Computer Science degree matter?" If you argue that it's really important, you'll invariably...

Filed under: News, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Cool Stuff

Political Advertising and the Web

Published Mon, Aug 6 2007 20:40 | William

Looks like the web is having a very positive influence on political advertising . There sight has a poll on other 'girl' suggestions so looks like there will probably be more. Clearly Obama Girl has the most hottability although it's close...

A little intrigue at Defcon

Published Sun, Aug 5 2007 19:30 | William

I came across this earlier today. I newsbabe who thought she was a little smarter than she really was made a complete fool of herself at Defcon . It's a short little article, but there are so many great points that are dead on. Seems like the media...