Well today is my 52nd birthday. That's right, I'm an Old Man playing in a young man's game. I love what I do and I wouldn't trade it for anything but sometimes I get feeling old and wonder if it's time to give up the game...or not. Staying up on what is happening with OCS and Speech...
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, I was doing some last minute Christmas shopping...
Well, the GotSpeech Guy is traveling again this week. I'm headed up to Columbia SC on business for a few days so if you are in that area then shoot me an email and maybe we can hook up. This will be my second week in a row on the road and I was only home for the weekend. It's tiring but once...
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 the B__S___". I had already flown a few times...
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 it's hard to run Spell and Grammar check...
Raymond Lewallen posted the following on his Twitter page . if i get one more vampire bite thingy whatever from facebook, i'm going to kick @ CalebJenkins in the nuts! Its seems to have started there. about 8 hours ago from Witty I know I'm out of the mainstream on this, but having signed up...
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 they were really cool for doing it. Little by little...
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 them. The major problem though is that the spam...
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 and has just created two more Silverlight Videos...
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08-14-2007
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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 over the years, but nothing, nothing compares...