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My blog scored 8.2 (great) on Blogged.com
Dunno if it means anything to anyone, but I just got email stating that Joteke's Blog has scored 8.2 on Blogged.com. According to them " We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Read More...
Running with a Third Screen on my Desk
Scott's post prompted this post as I've found that unlike Scott, my recent upgrade to a third screen is really helpful. I run with two PCs under my desk. One PC is a simple Dell tower with 4GB of RAM, a dual core chip in it and a couple of SATA spindles Read More...
Microsoft DreamSpark - Free Professional Tools for Students
Just see this DreamSpark program on the Visual Studio home page and it is definitely a good news for students. (Personally, I'm glad to see that this program covers and beneficial to students in China as well :) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! Read More...
At TechEd Next Week
I'll be down in Orlando at TechEd IT Pro next week. I'm working a booth of some fashion in the Technical Learning Center most of the week I'm told, so feel free to drop in and say hello if you're in town as well. Share this post: email it! | digg it! Read More...
IIS Feature is missing during SQL 2005 Installation
This is not the first time for me to see this message, so I think it may be a good idea to blog about it for future reference. The error message should be: Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled. IIS is required Read More...
Impromptu Hard Drive Refresh - Thanks Acronis
I fix other people's computers and IT problems all day, so the last thing I really feel like doing is fixing my own computer problems at home. My personal workstation decided to blue screen earlier in the evening which was nice. It was one of those blue Read More...
Caricatures
As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a Read More...
My ESPN Fan Profile and Blog
I'm moving my sports blog from MSN Live Spaces over to ESPN. Hopefully ESPN will release an RSS aggregate for the blog posts, but for now, you can add me to your fan profile here: http://sportsnation.espn.go.com/spaceman126/ . Share this post: email it! Read More...
Dealing with Mrs Jobsworth
From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't Read More...
Today's not the day to read blogs
Don't believe anything you read today. I know better, but I still forgot the date and believed Daniel had sold his company . His post was very well done, but I still think my old April Fool's Joke was better. Back in 2005 it was more believable Read More...
What he said
Rick Strahl: What can you keep in your Head? +1 ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
What's for dinner?
LOL, the best use yet for our awesome shared family calendar(s): the answer to the age-old question.. "What's for dinner, Mom?" Tara created a new shared calendar called Menu and added "all-day" appointments (just because they Read More...
The grass is not greener
I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People Read More...
Oh, I forgot synching..
To copy your personal calendar to google, use their new synch tool ... ..and then uninstall it. It crashed my wife's Outlook 2003 almost every hour when it synched up, and I'm still finding strange entries in my Deleted Items folder in Outlook Read More...
More Gmail
My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month Read More...
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