June 2004 - Posts

• Dr. Neil blogging!

  I think I've mentioned him before, but my friend and smart dude Dr. Neil is doing the blog thing.  He lives an interesting lifestyle (travels the Northern and Southern hemispheres in order to avoid winter), and gets into interesting technologies (he's been a Tablet Boy lately, etc.).  Looks like he's also talking about refactoring and some other fun stuff over there. --Marcie Posted Jun 28 2004, 12:37 AM by datagridgirl with 3 comment(s)

• Do feed the animals (off topic)

  The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "feed an animal in need" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com Posted Jun 23 2004, 10:47 AM by datagridgirl with 6 comment(s)

• BizTalk 2004 Training in Toronto

  Hey ya'll, our company (ObjectSharp) is teaching a BizTalk 2004 class the week of July 5th in Toronto (the city of fun), if anybody's interested, let me know. --Marcie Posted Jun 23 2004, 10:41 AM by datagridgirl with 3 comment(s)

• DevTeach Snacks

  I'm here at DevTeach in Montreal, and while there isn't a lot of snack food lying around, the desserts served at lunch are excellent.  I'm sitting here downstairs womanning a booth, but Ted just brouhgt me some desserts, and the chocolate mousse cake is superb.  Thanks Ted. UPDATE:  Dave Burke would like it noted that there were NO afternoon snacks available at DevTeach, and we would like to see some for next year.  Since we're asking for things, can we have some politer serving staff?  :) --Marcie Posted Jun 22 2004, 12:57 PM by datagridgirl with 3 comment(s)

• Speaking at 3

  Ok, I'm giving a talk here at DevTeach at 3PM on Datagrids and Gridviews in ASP.NET.  Should be lots of fun, I love speaking at the last minute. --Marcie Posted Jun 22 2004, 12:44 PM by datagridgirl with 1 comment(s)

• Retirement

  I'd like to bid farewell to two old friends that are retiring at the end of this month, exams 70-175, and 70-176.  I remember you both with fondness, and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. --Marcie Posted Jun 21 2004, 01:27 AM by datagridgirl with 4 comment(s)

• GMail Invitations, Part 3

  Hi all, I've given out 20 GMail invites so far, it seems that whenever I use them up, I get more within a day or so.  I'm running out soon of my contest entries, so I'd like to see some more creative entries.  See my previous post about the contest for more information.  (No, I'm not going to link to the original, if you're not willing to spend the effort to go to the main page of my blog and scroll down, I'm not going to spend the effort to invite you.) Another hint:  “Please give me GMail invite NOW” is not an entry.  I've gotten over 200 of those, which are not eligible, and 37 “creative” entries. --Marcie Posted Jun 20 2004, 06:44 PM by datagridgirl with 49 comment(s)

• GMail Invitations, part 2

  A cute cartoon:  http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/560.html I also got 2 more invitations to give out, so I'm probably going to give them to some of the runners-up from my previous contest.  More entries are also welcome.  See previous rules for details. --Marcie Posted Jun 18 2004, 11:45 AM by datagridgirl with 31 comment(s)

• Linux, Munich, and Sonu Kapoor

  My friend Sonu has an interesting thread going on his blog about the City of Munich / Linux thing.  I thought it was particularly interesting because I used to live in Munich.  Check out the comments too. --Marcie Posted Jun 18 2004, 09:36 AM by datagridgirl with 1 comment(s)

• Multi-Author Books

  I just bought a SAMS book, and it has 14 authors, 8 editors and a team coordinator.  What is the world coming to. Seriously. Does anyone else think this is overkill? --Marcie Posted Jun 17 2004, 10:07 PM by datagridgirl with 10 comment(s)