Contents tagged with Personal
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MVP Summit 2008 - Wish I Could Be There
Well, the MVP Summit started today and I'm starting to see both blogs and pictures come out. Sadly, this is the first one since becoming an MVP that I've missed. The distance and expenses of getting to Redmond from London were just too much for me to overcome, to say nothing of the piles of work to do here at BT. But even though I'll miss the festivities I'm sure my MVP brethren and sistren (is that a word?) will have a great time and hopefully know that I'll miss seeing them this year.
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New Year's Eve in London - Amazing
Last night was an excellent example of the pleasant surprises you find when moving to a new place. I usually watch the ball drop in Times Square on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve and often thought how great it would be to be in the crowd cheering as countdown reached 0 and the new year started. That desire has been replaced though with what I saw last night. Now I want to be a part of the 700,000 member crowd gathered along the Thames counting down to 0 followed by an awe inspiring near silence as we listen for the tolling of midnight by an illuminated Big Ben in the distance. This was followed by the biggest, most impressive fireworks display I've ever seen, even if it was just on TV. They launched fireworks from several floating barges, at least two moving speedboats, and directly from the London Eye.
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Happy To Be... An MVP.. Again...Again!!!
I am once again honored to announce that I have received a Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2008. Much thanks to Akim and Vicki my new MVP Leads here in the UK.
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You Know You're NOT In Texas When...
My good friend and native Texan Noah Coad recently wrote a post entitled "You Know Your In Texas When" highlighting the sights and mostly tastes of Texas that stood out during his visit with family over Christmas (Noah works for Microsoft and now lives in Redmond). Being a former Texan who transplanted himself even farther away than the Pacific Northwest, I couldn't help but make the opposite comparisons in my new home (which for those of you who didn't notice the picture above is London, UK).
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5 Things About Me...
Many of you may have seen the recent game of blog tag going on called "5 Things...". I got tagged by David Walker from Tulsa and so here are some things about me that you probaby don't already know.
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Happy to Be... An MVP... Again!!!
I am honored to say that I have received the Microsoft MVP (Visual Developer - Visual Basic) award for 2007. I want to thank Ed Hickey, my MVP lead, for once again considering my efforts in the community worthy of recognition.
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Sansa Rhapsody e270R - Loving it!!
Santa Claus, in the form of my beautiful wife, brought me a new Sandisk Sansa e270R for Christmas this year, and I must say that it truly rocks!
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HP's New Revenue Generation Strategy - Did you want drivers with that?
Let's say that against your better judgement and the urging of your closest family members you do the unthinkable and actually purchase a retail computer from HP. Make absolutely sure that you take any driver CDs or files from hidden partitions and burn them onto 10 different CDs. Put one in a bank deposit box, send 5 of them to your closest friends, and bury the rest in your yard! Because if you ever lose them, you're going to pay!
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Installing Java Runtime Requires ActiveX?
I recently needed to reinstall the Java Runtime environment on my desktop in order to view sites with Java Applets. When I went to Sun's download site, I got the familiar Windows XP information bar saying that the site was attempting to install an ActiveX control and the download wouldn't proceed without it.
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Mourning the Death of OS/2, The Horse I Rode In On
I wasn't always the .NET fanatic that I am today. In fact, before learning about .NET I spent a few years in the Unix/Java/Netscape world working on websites that are still in production today. But before that even, I spent the first 10 years of my career working in OS/2.