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Welcome to anyone who's visiting from the PDC Buzz page . I have to say that any day you can get listed on the same page with folks like Chris Sells and Brad Abrams is a very good day, indeed! I hope that anyone who reads my blog and is going to the PDC...
I should've known better than to taunt Mother Nature. After we got our power back from Isabel (after 30 hours), I changed my MSN IM handle to include “(power's back...take THAT, Isabel!)”. Apparently, Mother Nature takes these things rather...
Ole Eichhorn sings the praises of Vonage , a service that allows you to use your internet connection for telephone service, using a standard telephone. According to Ole, it's cheap ($60, one-time fee), and will be big. There's only one catch...the little...
Been a while since I posted, so I'll catch up on a number of items: Just signed a new book project with O'Reilly...more details to follow, but it's ASP.NET-related. I've got an article in the pipeline for the MSDN ASP.NET Developer Center . The article...
In posting my opinions on the blaster worm, and on what might be done to prevent future occurrences, I seem to have opened myself up to some blasting of my own: Ok, there's been a few people who don't know better talking about how everyone should have...
I'm puzzled...practically at a loss for words. The cause? The fact that yet again , Microsoft finds and patches a vulnerability before an exploit is widely available, and still , hundreds of thousands of computers are infected. This is inexcusable. Home...
There has been a lot of talk on a lot of the blogs over going to PDC, the cost of PDC, etc. There is an argument made that the cost of an event like PDC is prohibitive, preventing folks working at smaller employers, or even the self employed from attending...
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all the folks from the Triangle .NET User Group who showed up for my presentation on creating a custom Login server control last night. I had a great time, and the questions from the group were very good as well...
The news that Larry Ellison is planning a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft caused Mike Sax to reminisce: The recent news of Oracle's $5 Billion hostile take-over bid for PeopleSoft reminded me of a very negative encounter I had with Ellison a two years...
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! I spent the afternoon celebrating my wife's first Mother's Day at Dumbarton Oaks gardens in northwest Washington, DC. I'm not usually much for gardens, but Dumbarton Oaks is simply stunning. There are amazing...
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