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It's always interesting to see people doing whacky ADO.NET stuff and today I saw a few interesting things along those lines...

I decided a few weeks back that I'd go through my Windows Media Player - Media Library and update the ratings and album/track info for each of the items. It's useful because then you have more options about what music you can listen to. So, now when I open the "Music Category" dropdown in the top-right hand corner of my player I can choose from some of the following options:

As part of my 2004 goals series I'm looking at ways to improve software construction and delivery and one of the main themes that I'll be trying to answer is: how to motivate yourself and others.

Well, I've started and nearly completed my first project for '04, a project that I architected and had sign-off for late last year. This was one of the best development experience that I've ever had with regard to the following:

I've seen many a New Years resolution blogged over the past week: promises, hopes, dreams and even pure speculation; so, I thought that I might lay down my own vision for the year.

Today I read an interesting article about the use of abbr and acronym tags. The article also provided a nifty piece of client-side script to ensure that those tags display as well in IE as they do in Mozilla and Opera.

ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vsintro7/html/vxtskOutliningCode.htm

Last week, while ranting about a significant piece real estate I was able to capture a few jarred thoughts.  Today I read some text which uncovered more emotions that lay within me in the same way that a seemingly quiet stream can contain a savage undercurrent.   This undercurrent was spawned from the un-mediated enactment of trespass upon my property - my domain - with neither consent nor due consideration.  In the days and weeks following this act, I sought to discover what value was added?  On reflection, I discovered that there was indeed some value added.