Today while I was away goofing off at Tech Ready, my daughter was apparently home with Emily making Bikini Bread.  That girl says the funniest things sometimes. High Yield Explosive Google Maps - Cool. Type in your lat/long and enter the number of kilo tons you are afraid of and you can see how much damage your house will get. Here's my...

Today I helped Ron Jacobs and Eugenio Pace with their presentations at Tech Ready. Tech Ready is the annual internal conference for technical field people to learn about all the new stuff going on in Redmond and I was cool to be asked to help out. The first session was with Ron called Patterns & Practices Survival. Ron and I talked about...

Today I helped Ron Jacobs and Eugenio Pace with their presentations at Tech Ready. Tech Ready is the annual internal conference for technical field people to learn about all the new stuff going on in Redmond and I was cool to be asked to help out. The first session was with Ron called Patterns & Practices Survival. Ron and I talked about...

For some strange reason, I remember with fondness those state-fair-kind-of-things that I went to as a child. You know what I'm talking about, rides, fair food, drinks, kids everywhere, sun, water, sun, kids everywhere, more rides, etc. But now I'm well into my 30-somethings and I've decided that I don't really like them anymore. Today was Day 1...

For some strange reason, I remember with fondness those state-fair-kind-of-things that I went to as a child. You know what I'm talking about, rides, fair food, drinks, kids everywhere, sun, water, sun, kids everywhere, more rides, etc. But now I'm well into my 30-somethings and I've decided that I don't really like them anymore. Today was Day 1...

Emily is in Kansas City today with her old college friends. We gave her this as her birthday present... you know, a little get away from the kids and an opportunity to spend some time with friends she hasn't seen in a while. Of couse, that means I'm home with the terrible two. AltovaXML Engine Now Free - Altova has announced a free version...

Emily is in Kansas City today with her old college friends. We gave her this as her birthday present... you know, a little get away from the kids and an opportunity to spend some time with friends she hasn't seen in a while. Of couse, that means I'm home with the terrible two. AltovaXML Engine Now Free - Altova has announced a free version...

Lately I've been doing a number of demos and stuff using my laptop, which means I have to shutdown, undock, go somewhere, boot up, and then wait for all the apps in my Startup folder to load. Nine times out of ten, I like having my system starup with Outlook, Omea Reader and a number of other apps already running. That way I can boot up, login,...

Yesterday was the final day of our onsite CAB lab sessions and it was a lot of fun. I think our "students" got a lot out of it, and I can certainly say that we got a lot out of having them here. We learned a lot about things we have done well and things we can do better and I can guarantee that this will have a positive impact on the final...

Yesterday was the final day of our onsite CAB lab sessions and it was a lot of fun. I think our "students" got a lot out of it, and I can certainly say that we got a lot out of having them here. We learned a lot about things we have done well and things we can do better and I can guarantee that this will have a positive impact on the final...

My wife's friend Becca was in town with her baby this past weekend, which was nice. Becca is the person who introduced Emily and myself. Her boy, Henry, is adorable and since he is the same age as Finn, it was fun watching them play together. iBang's Ultimate Shuffle Mix - You all know that I love my iPod Shuffle, but I'll admit to being...

My wife's friend Becca was in town with her baby this past weekend, which was nice. Becca is the person who introduced Emily and myself. Her boy, Henry, is adorable and since he is the same age as Finn, it was fun watching them play together. iBang's Ultimate Shuffle Mix - You all know that I love my iPod Shuffle, but I'll admit to being...

I’ve wanted to complain about this before, but I didn’t. But then today I lost my Omea Reader database and had to start over with my RSS feeds. I knew I was caught-up with my feeds as of about noon today, so after reloading my OPML file (you should always remember to keep a backup of that) and then sync-ing my feeds, I selected...

I’ve wanted to complain about this before, but I didn’t. But then today I lost my Omea Reader database and had to start over with my RSS feeds. I knew I was caught-up with my feeds as of about noon today, so after reloading my OPML file (you should always remember to keep a backup of that) and then sync-ing my feeds, I selected...

I’ve been pestering the JetBrains crew on their USENET forum for months now for this. ReSharper 1.x was not supported in VS 2005, but the new 2.0 EAP is finally supported!! This is very likely to be early code, but I’m installing it now: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Download I will report more info as I...