I frequently listen to Adam Curry and his podcast the Daily Source Code. He has often mentioned his love of the philips Senseo coffee maker. So I decided this weekend I was going to get one. And I have to admit, this is one great coffee maker. The Philips Senseo is a single coffee maker that uses pods to allow you …
My friend Joel has opened up a tourney on his site tourneylogic.com. He has some good info on his blog Joel has created program with a bracket control, for tournaments. You can visit tourneylogic.com
I have been working on a screen saver for IIS reporter. In doing research for that I made / modified a C# (Visual studio 2005) demo for and RSS screen saver. This screen saver is build in Visual C# express and uses the .net framework 2.0. It will take a selected RSS feed and display it as a screen saver. You …
I have found the next album I am going to purchase. I am not sure if Itunes carry’s his label. But Shooter Jennings (www.shooterjennings.com) has his first record out. The son of the late great Waylon Jennings and Jesse Colter. Shooter has a sound that is a mix between Rock and Roll and that fantastic Country Rock that I like. I …
Well I finally purchased a CD. I have not bought a cd for a few months. In fact I can’t even remember when the last time I purchased a CD. It must have been over a year. Now spinning in my car, other than my Ipaq is George Thorogood :Greatest Hits – 30 Years of Rock. You can view info here …
Well I just finished Jimmy Buffett’s – “A Salty Piece of Land”. View link here (Amazon) Great book. I have been a fan of all Buffett books for a long time. Since I first read his short stories back on college. This book takes us on a fantastic ride with Tully Mars. From the cattle ranch out west to the bone …
I was reading Joel’s blog the other day and noticed he had a linke to a site called www.connectionstrings.com What a great site. I could have used this information a few hundred times already. Just thinking back on some recent projects, when I had to search for some old code for google for some code on how to connect to a …
I was thinking a while back how difficult it would be to learn how to use the .NET platform if I did not have the Visual Studio IDE interface. It go me thinking and searching for some alternatives. I did remember that you could use webmatrix www.asp.net/webmatrix I have never used Web Matrix but it seems like it would do the …
I finally found out some information about the local time number. You know, the number you could call and a nice lady would come on and tell you what time it was. After some research I found out that SBC Michigan has discontinued the service. I first found out about this from my wife. She was complaining that the “time lady” …
I keep reading blogs with people talking about the death of the album. In fact on slashdot they have a story HERE from the Washington Post about the death of CD’s. The idea is that we can all make our plastic (cd’s , dvd, tapes) and we will no longer buy them. For some reason this just not sit well with …
I have finally completed the move from gotdotnet.com to sourceforge.net. You can get to the sourceforge page at this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iisreporter/ So far I have been really happy with the sourceforge location. I ended up udating my CVS to use sourceforge. I am currently using both SourceSafe and TortoiseCVS. Just to let you know how much I am enjoying sourceforge. I …
I finally go around to launching the site iisreporter.com. Both to hold the iisreporter project but to also allow for a place to discuss IIS issues. Please email me if you have any more ideas. www.iisreporter.com Still working on content.
Well I have been searching for the perfect mobile device. Cell phone, handheld, and web browsers. Let me tell you that I have not found it yet. This all started with the need for a new cell phone. After testing a Palm Treo 600, and the black berry I decided that they were not up to par yet. So I took …
I do a lot of coding for web sites and web applications. One of the major issues we have is the way an app or site renders in a particular browser. For example, a site that uses tags will render entirely different in Firefox / Mozilla than in I.E. This often becomes a problem with usability. So when AOL announced their …
Google just released their beta of google maps. http://maps.google.com It seems to me like the browser wars of years ago. Now instead we have MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Each seem to be trying to out do each other. MSN launching a new engine, google adding powerful services, and yahoo just seems to be ticking. This new map service from google is …