May 2005 - Posts
My favorite family restaurant here in Roswell, GA is Bahama Breeze . We went there last night and had another great time and wonderful meal (their new entrees like Santiago Chicken are excellent). The kids love the live singer (we always eat on the deck,
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Interesting blog by Rick about how Best Buy sell you extra's when you buy a laptop - I left a comment over there: Coming from someone who is now 6 hours into the process of installing new hard drives on his 3 kids computers, installing XP, updating, installing
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FYI, I just bought some cheap hard drives; 160gb from CompUSA for $30 after $100 mail-in rebate. Another from Circuit City, also 160gb, for $40 after rebate.. These are limited time offers.
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I just came back from Home Depot. While I was there one guy in a mini-van deliberately blocked the road while picking up pine chips (he could have parked and left room to pass, but he just didn't think or didn't care). Leaving Home Depot, a guy in a truck
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I noticed yesterday that the PageRank display on the Google toolbar is showing "No PageRank information available" for every site I visit, even the PR 10 sites like yahoo.com. Of course googling for any information on PageRank is impossible nowadays,
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My Big Watch (as the kids call it ) and I are having fun together. It's big, but it's still fun. Local weather is updated often, and is nice to have if you're planning something later in the day. I can see the weather in all the major cities, so when
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I popped into the local Microsoft office this morning for an MVP event to meet some other MVP's and the peeps running the MVP program. It was cool to eat lunch there and hang out, but when I left I picked up the normal swag box only to find this watch
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I've blathered on here before about Rick Segal's blog , and how I've pinned my "Fave A-List Blogger" badge to him now (is there a Joel backlash going on underground, or am I imagining it?), but this morning I was shocked to be browsing through my Newsgator
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Talking of lawns yesterday and how much I loved our front yard, Seth talks about " the wasteful green expanse in front of your house ". Apparently we only have them to demonstrate wastefulness to our neighbors!
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The perfect end to a perfect day. I built a new deck this weekend, then cut the grass (my "me" time where I can just sit on the tractor and ponder life for a couple of hours), then sat on the edge of the pool and dangled my feet in with Jesse. I have
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Recently I've noticed that mail servers can get really slow to respond sometimes. Perhaps that's just a symptom of using shared servers - it only takes one other client of my web hosting company to be sending 1,000 emails out for my email to be delayed
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Yes, schools out. The chaos of the last week is dying down, to be replaced by the pack of morose kids moping around the house. Tara and I were just talking about how the first week of summer vacation is full of depressed kids trying to readjust..
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I am well overdue to talk about FogBugz and Server Intellect . I'd heard about FogBugz through Joel's blog , and then started hearing good things within my circle of friends at ASP Insiders - Eric at CodeSmith I think recommended it - so I figured it
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I forgot to mention it - CYA is now on the latest v2.3 release, with all the bells and whistles; new user controls on the left, comments, etc, etc...
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Another of those days. The day of a big release (no, with 2.5 hours to go, it's not released yet, but I stay hopeful) The last week of school for my kids (not strictly relevant, but makes for a hugely busy week) A couple of big meetings And then I go
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If you judge the size of a release by the length of the release notes, this upcoming 2.3 release is the biggest yet. Whenever a new change is checked in it is added to a little-known page in the Dozing Dogs support area , called Code changes (it's not
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Rick's at it again, hitting that nail on the head again. Today he talks about assuming your customers are honest . This guy is better than Joel.
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