Monthly Archives: March 2005

Comment spammers are at it again

06 Mar 2005
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Last month, I implemented a fix that I had hoped would stop comment spam.

Good candidate for the Darwin Awards

05 Mar 2005
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I’m not sure they’re even keeping ‘The Darwin Awards’ website updated anymore, but I definitely have a good candidate if they do:


Smoking + Oxygen = explosion


MindManager and Office integration clarification

04 Mar 2005
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In my last post, I said MindManager didn’t work with Outlook 2000.

GTD – Audio book (and some MindManager stuff)

04 Mar 2005
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I picked up the audio version of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” yesterday.

Upcoming posts

04 Mar 2005
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I’ve started preparing some blog posts on some architectural and design decisions I’ve made in some .NET projects I’ve worked on.

DIGET, dig it?

03 Mar 2005
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At dinner tonight, I saw an interesting sign that said:


Do
It
Great
Every
Time

Something to think about. :-)

New job – into my second week

02 Mar 2005
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It’s been an interesting few days, but I’m slowly adjusting to the new environment and culture.

I’ve had the opportunity to make use of some online training the company purchased. The topics vary widely from IT to business-related topics. I have to laugh at some of the business topics though. I mean c’mon…you really can’t learn “leadership” through a web-based course. I don’t even believe you can really learn it in a classroom, but that’s neither here nor there. :-)

The technical topics are pretty good, but just like any other courseware, there are mistakes and bad questions. I’ve never really been good at studying for stuff (pretty much all of my MCSD exams have been taken using only the knowledge I gained on the job), so I’m taking this one step at a time.

So far, I’ve taken some SQL courses (only to find out that I really do know WTF I’m talking about). I’ve scored 100% across the board on the SQL courses, but I haven’t taken the full 70-229 practice test yet. We’ll see if it helps when I go for the real thing.

My kids have made the adjustment to me not being home all the time pretty well. It’s really cool when I get home at 5pm to have my kids come running to the door. :-)