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Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:23 | William

With such a compelling title, I figured the article would be quite intriguing . I've had a lot of phone drama recently, dropping my WM 6.1 Dash and breaking it, leaving the replacement on the roof of my car and driving off, buying another imate but...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Mobility, Windows Mobile, iPhone

"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 2:25 | William

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Business Travel Sucks

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 1:09 | William

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

Published Wed, Dec 5 2007 14:09 | William

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

The internet addiction test

Published Wed, Nov 21 2007 12:48 | William

I scored a pretty low 33. I'm surprised, i thought I'd have done worse. However, if they substituted "computer time" with "internet" I don't think I'd have faired quite as well.

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Guitar Hero III - Misc comments and a few questions

Published Sun, Nov 11 2007 15:54 | William

When I first picked it up, I was really wondering whether or not it would be value added in any way in my life. Like I mentioned before, my TV has virtually no usage on it (until about two weeks ago) and sitting on my couch in front of the TV is not something...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

If Brian Madsen is really a friend, then he'll...............................

Published Sat, Sep 8 2007 18:12 | William

Sahil and I have been friends for a long time since then, but to this day, he's yet to give me the Cobra, Turbin and Flute that I've been hitting him up for. Yes, I'm still salty about it. Well, I just saw this piece on how bad a55 Dingos...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

Fighting the Bull

Published Fri, Sep 7 2007 10:15 | William

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought...

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

Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

Published Tue, Sep 4 2007 3:44 | William

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

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

Better keep my day job

Published Wed, Feb 7 2007 2:44 | William

I got this from Brian's - it's been around a while but always interesting to re-check. My blog is worth $10,161.72 . How much is your blog worth? Looks like i better keep my day job...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Any Thoughts?

Published Mon, Feb 5 2007 0:22 | William

So I need one of these like I need a hole in the head but I think I want one. Another thing I'm thinking about is going to Wireless N at the house. I just upgraded the stuff at Kim's house to Mimo G - and so far, it seems a lot cooler (if nothing else...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Gadgets

Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone

Published Sat, Feb 3 2007 3:39 | William

I got a few new gadgets recently and have been meaning to blog about them b/c all in all, I highly recommend them. The first of these is the Uniden Win 1200 Windows Live Enabled 5800 mhz phone . I'm not a big IM User although recently, Ryan Olshan , Brian...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Secure Mobile Environment, Pleomax, Gadgets, Windows Live Messenger, SME, Ceedo

Lunch with Wally

Published Fri, Feb 2 2007 19:38 | William

I had the pleasure of eating lunch today with Pat Piccollo, Zach Moore , John Croft and none other than Wally I need more Cowbell McClure. I actually Co-Authored Professional ADO.NET 2.0 with Wally and John but never got to meet John until today. Wally...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

C Ya at the LARP

Published Thu, Feb 1 2007 11:28 | William

One of the new things I started doing in the mornings was going to the Gym. I live a few blocks away from a LA Fitness that opens up at 5:00 AM. So if possible, I try to get over there at 5:00, work out, do my morning routine and head to work. As I was...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

The AngryPharmacist and the Drug Monkey

Published Sun, Jan 28 2007 22:07 | William

Every day we go about out lives and we interact with people who we probably don't even think twice about. Many of us interact with pharmacists and never think twice about it, or what they think of us. I know mr 375lb bench press aka 'the lower cased one...

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

The utter lameness of UPS

Published Tue, Jan 16 2007 0:50 | William

As most of you probably know, I'm a little strange by most standards. I only leave my house b/c I'm forced to make a living which requires me to. Other than that, I'd probably never leave other than to go to the bookstore. So I shop online for everything...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Tag, I'm it

Published Mon, Jan 15 2007 18:14 | William

It's about time. Ryan Olshan tagged me. Here's 5 things you may not know about me. 1) Sahil originally tagged me but took his post down. 2) I was a Philosophy major in undergrad. I went to grad school and got my MBA with a concentration in Applied Statistics...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders

Published Fri, Jan 12 2007 6:31 | William

My homie Ryan Olshan and the team at Strong Coders is hosting a public MVP Chat 01.12.07 8:00PM EDT . Although I'll be be a small fish in a big pond over there, Ryan was kind enough to invite me to join in Would love to see you over there.

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Random Thoughts

Published Wed, Jan 3 2007 23:52 | William

If you're miserable, making other people miserable won't bring you happiness. The dude who said, "You can have it good, fast or cheap, pick two" knew his stuff. If you use the phrase "I'm confused" more than once a day, and/or you use it as a question...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling