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Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone

Published 3 February 7 3:39 AM | 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

And if Monday doesn't work for you..

Published 26 January 7 1:26 AM | William

I'll also be working at the Ready for a new Day - Launch Tour 2007 February 8, 2007. And yep, I'll be there all day. If you're attending, make sure to stop by.

Filed under: News, Me, Misc Technology

MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders

Published 12 January 7 6:31 AM | 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

MEDC 2006 - I'll be there.

Published 26 March 6 12:12 AM | William

MEDC 2006 kicks a55 and I'm lucky enough to go this year. Last year I had issues with not being able to get off of work, but that won't be a problem this year. If you're going to MEDC 2006 , let me know and hopefully we can hook up. I'm trying to be a...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, Me

Disabling the CAPTCHA for a while.

Published 30 July 5 3:38 PM | William

Many of my homies and Scott in particular (as well as myself) have been annoyed by the Captcha ( C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part). It definitely does it's job, but it also has a lot of false negatives...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me

Charleston Code Camp

Published 1 June 5 10:17 PM | William

I just got this from my homie Chris Williams : is proud to announce the first ever: South Carolina MSDN Code Camp When: Saturday, September 17th, 2005 Where: Blackbaud, 2000 Daniel Island Drive, Charleston SC 29492 More details to follow: Greater Charleston...

Filed under: News, Me, Code Camps

Dear Apress....

Published 13 May 5 11:11 AM | William

As a loyal customer, I need to ask you for one favor. This is a very petty and immature request on my part, but I have to ask it anyway. Please don't give Tobin any more HardCovers for his books: Working with Tobin is hard enough as it is because he outdoes...

Filed under: News, Humor, Books, Me

My Speech Server is all the way thug

Published 25 April 5 5:24 PM | William

So far, I'm throwing a few ideas around to really make my upcoming code camp presentations good. I just ask myself “What would Casey Chesnut ” do and then I get good ideas. So I was playing around with it, and started putting in Lyrics to...

Filed under: News, Speech Server, Me

Why Wait - you can Refactor VB.NET & C# Without waiting for the 2.0 Framework

Published 25 April 5 4:58 PM | William

Seeing lots of buzz about being able to refactor w/ the 2.0 Framework. A while back we created .Net Refactor and honestly, I think it's a great product and very well priced. Give it a try and let me know what you think - for better or for worse (although...

Filed under: News, Me

Mega BlogMap

Published 17 April 5 6:4 AM | William

I came across two pretty interesting folks in the area after Adding a blogmap . I now read both of htier blogs.... So that puts us at 3 for Greenvile. Now if yoyu check out Jeremy Brayton's friggin *blogmap* - 36 PEOPLE! Sure, Hotlanta is a lot bigger...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling

Pocket PC Blogging

Published 6 April 5 9:49 PM | William

The other day, I added a Feedmap feed and found someone named Darren Swartzendruber right in my area. So I checked out his blog (I found it through Feedmap so I didn't expect that it was tech related) and saw that he was a Pocket PC User user. Anyway...

Filed under: News, Me

I'll be speaking at Greenville Sql Innovators Group - April 4

Published 28 March 5 1:52 PM | William

I'll be presenting on Sql Notifications at next week's Sql Innovator's Group meeting if anyone's interested: Next Meeting Tuesday, April 5th at ECPI 4cm ******************************************************* If you are planning on attending please reply...

Filed under: News, Data Access, Me

More on what a-holes RealtyWorld is

Published 26 March 5 1:11 PM | William

So here's a copy of the actual letter they are threatening people with. I actually heard an interesting take on the issue. Say RealtyWorld is going to threaten SomeMVP because the RealtyWorld Symbol bares a small resemblance to the globe SomeMvp got via...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

house.config

Published 5 January 5 10:39 PM | William

Unfortunately, there is no such thing but I really wish there were. Moving Blows. At least I'm not the only one going through it - but Beth's moving in - I'm just shuffling things around. That got me to thinking - the next time I hear someone start telling...

Filed under: News, Humor, Me

Newsgroup Cowboys

Published 30 December 4 6:32 PM | William

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Why isn't Microsoft doing this?

Published 23 December 4 12:4 AM | William

One of the few things I've always excelled at in life is blowing money on frivolous things. Here's the Roku Soundbridge that crushed my will-power. Roku is a company that I never heard of prior to last week and having a wireless media player wasn't something...

Filed under: News, Me

Your browsing Habits

Published 11 December 4 1:36 AM | William

Just saw Scott posted this and it's pretty interesting. Here's mine: A- Michael G's Atrevido B - Brains-N-Brawn C - Andy's Blog D - Daniel Pipes.org E - Elliot.com F- Flash Enabled G - Jeremy's Blog H - Hotmail I - Ingo Rammer's blog J - Joel On Software...

Filed under: News, Me

I found this so flattering... even if my prediction has yet to materialize.

Published 10 December 4 11:44 PM | William

Trying the new Google Beta and it was cool. If you put in William Ryan as a search term, not only does it appear, but I'm #3. Then I put in W.G. Ryan and I was the first 5 hits. Sure, that Ryan Homes guy is still ahead of me, but considering the income...

Filed under: News, Me