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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better. "Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge...
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I have to write this down, it is totally bizarre. A colleague come to me to ask why F5 wouldnt build his project any more. Sure enough, pressing F5 showed the File/Open dialog, but Debug/Start on the menu worked perfectly. The green arrow toolbar button...
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Here at my current gig at Lamps Plus I've been hearing more and more about ReSharper , and a couple days ago my license key arrived via email. Hard to believe it's been out since 2004 and I have never even seen it before, but I guess you don't...
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I'm a sentimental sonuvabitch, and love listening to late fifties/early sixties music, pretending it was 1962 and wondering why there aren't any DJ's like Wolfman Jack any more. So, tonight the setting was perfect. All it needed was Tara sitting...
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A week later, I'm sitting at a different desk now, in my own 1 bedroom apartment. Bizarrely, after driving all over the surrounding cities looking at cheap apartments I ended up 100 yards from my hotel. The first week of work was the same as any first...
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I'm here, sitting in my room on Sherman and DeSoto. As the other Arquette sister says in Pulp Fiction, this is trippy. The drive was unreal. It took, as the maps said it would, 3 days of hard driving. Day 1 I didn't leave until 9:30, so didn't...
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A day in Monterey and Carmel today. This morning we went whale watching and got close to a couple of 80ft blue whales and some humpack whales. Pretty cool and the weather was perfect - calm and 75f. We then drove 17 mile drive to Carmel via Pebble Beach...
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Really it's Day 16 to me, but strictly speaking it is after midnight, so very early on the 27th. I'm in the air now, flying with Tara on our 5 day vacation to California. The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of working mornings for StomperNet...
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The in-laws arrived for a 4 week stay on Thursday, Friday was heads down for a big (but internal) launch at StomperNet and Saturday was Tara's 40th birthday! The worlds largest dumpster (30 yards/5 tons) was also delivered in the morning as a special...
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Ok, that's done. Booked . One less (large and looming) thing to think about. Priceline did the deed at about 2/3 price of the public rate....
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I wouldn't say it was exactly perfectly going to plan, but we're close. Tara's parents arrive tomorrow so Bathroom 1 had to be done. And after a long evening we're almost there. Door frame installed, toilet in, cabinet in, sink and faucets...
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I ache this morning. Over the weekend I worked 20 hours in our bathroom, taking out everything - a wall, all sheetrock, a tiled shower, cabinets, sinks, mirrors and lights. Then I did some studwork, re-wired the lights and outlets and got it ready for...
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"Let's go to lunch", Tara says, "and we'll pop into Lowes and pick up a few things." Quizno's was good, then came Lowes. We need some more cement board for the shower and floor in master bathroom, and we need to "order...
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Remember this : door frames are not made to be easily removable. Removing all the sheetrock in bathroom 1 meant removing the door frame - which is coated in a finish that we dont have, so is effectively irreplaceable. Usually a 280lb guy and a crowbar...
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I posted about our upcoming adventure on a few car/tiki forums today, it was interesting to read the responses. Overall, the responses were very positive and I heard some great ideas for places to live. However, some people sound like they would find...
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When Tara and I moved to Atlanta in January 1998 with our two very young daughters it was a big deal I guess, but I remember it being a lot of fun too. I had sold my small software company to one in Atlanta and that made the whole trip financially a great...
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It's time for me to come clean about my "other job" - I've always had things going on, on the side so to speak, but for a year now I've been into e-commerce websites. Yeah, that whole "making money online" thing. I've...
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First, an aside: Just one blog post since leaving Telligent? wow. Even more surprising, how many times a day do you think I check Google Reader now? Never. In fact, I don't remember the last time I checked "the feeds I'm really interested...
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I recently moved my sites to Windows 2008 server and although I am repressing the memory of the pain and suffering caused by my lack of knowledge of IIS7 (assuming it really is me, not IIS7 that makes some simple tasks so much harder), after it was all...
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Since we now have the tools to be personally notified of plane crashes within 30 seconds of them happening, no doubt you've already heard about Telligent's Reduction In Force yesterday. It was a crazy day, for sure, with the now infamous "knocks...
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaah. There must have been an automatic update last night, I came in this morning to a signin screen and the computer was booting from scratch. Of course, I immediately turned around and went for coffee; it's not a quick process. On my return,...
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I feel a little silly this morning. When I setup my new Vista box a few weeks ago I installed my CA Security Center that I love and uninstalled Windows Defender - or at least I thought I had. I swear I saw it in Add & Remove Programs and got rid of...
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If you've even driven in Dallas you'll understand about the tolls. For visitors it appears they are everywhere - you pay to get on, you pay to get off, and you pay when you're half way there too, just for good measure. It's insane. Locals...
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I started Telligent as a PM, then went into product, then moved to the Microsoft-specific "sites" team where I wrote and maintained the http://silverlight.net site. But that ended last week as the sites team transitioned onto other projects...
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I've always loved Lightbox - it just looks so cool. I've used it to "popup" larger versions of images on a few sites, but only today did I notice that it causes a security warning in IE7. Unfortunately, this isn't highlighted as...
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