January 2007 - Posts
New DVD's in the mail last night from the Microsoft Partner Program - including two that I've left on the desk staring at me. Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade Business They're just sitting there, all shiny and
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I'm taking a risk here openly h aranguing the boss' boss, but what the hell. I'm all for experimentation (but not with farm animals kids) but Scott W's blog experiment is sucking for me. You may not have seen it, but http://me.scottwater.com
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hehe. This was a fun link to find 2 days before my 43rd birthday. P.S. Please send cash/checks in lieu of presents. I have expensive hobbies .
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Do you feel invincible today? These guys do . Think you drive fast?
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Well, kinda. I work remotely, so I tend to talk to myself a lot. And you of course. And since I don't get out much, and when I do the car radio seems to play the same top 10 hits over and over - and over, how am I ever supposed to find new music?
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I guess it's quite rare, but today I needed to have a list of radio buttons with a bunch of other controls on the same line as the buttons. So, without thinking I put a RadioButton control inside a Repeater and bound it to my database. You may already
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I've seen a few posts about Floodle recently - Jason was the most recent . But (putting aside how amazing or crappy these 'products' are) isn't this illegal? Does he just target the crappy ones? cos if I was selling something on ebay and
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After my 3rd screen died a few months back I've been missing my 'outlook' screen. Bestbuy fixed that last night with a special deal - and the fact that i have a big box of cables helped too. Apparently cables are optional nowadays; my new
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..and I'm now paying for it big time. I'm not the only one either - when I bought shawthing.com and started using that as my email address I decided to be smart and use the "nobody" (catch-all) address rather than setup lots of different
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I'm just going to get this over quickly cos I'm pissed off. Last week I rented a movie and it wouldn't play - my DVD player wouldn't even recognize there was a DVD. So I took it back to my local store, and reported online that the DVD
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Nice new service from thycotic ; www.shortersigs.com offers a way to replace that long-winded email signature with a free URL that points to your personalized profile. You can set up any number of profiles with different amounts of information and use
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Steve Smith documents a strange admission by Alienware that his top-of-the-line laptop is "End-Of-Life" after 22 months. How much do you want to bet that he unexpectedly gets a different response once Dell sees this rippling through tech blogs
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Someone just reminded me that I had left a bunch of people subscribed over on my old blog at CoverYourASP.NET. Sorry. I've now permenantly redirected the old RSS feed(s) to this site so you can catch up. Luckily it only took a few minutes because
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I almost got away with it; this morning I figured that if I hadn't got tagged by this meme by now I missed it - but it wasn't to be. ScottW got me . I don't think it's a rule that the five things have to be embarrassing things, but it
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