Development Notes, News and Ramblings
I get clobbered with hundreds of comment spam items. For the time being I’m trying a hack that cross my fingers may do the trick. In the meantime, how’s that WP 1.3 coming along? Its got much better spam managability built it.
I listen to NPR and every Thursday evening the news show publishes its corrections. So today I have a correction of my own.
Turns out that Apress has an investment from Springer Sciences. It is NOT owned by Springer Publications (German company) as I had incorrectly listed here.
Gary - thanks for posting the comment […]
I swear that I could have mentioned this before…..
OK, picture it is four or five years ago and you are among the powers that decide how ADO.NET will be shaped. With all the new functionality ( especially oo-centricity of .NET) what would make you come up with such a thing as a Dataset. In […]
This is a repost of an old Radio blog entry.
Trivia: In 1984 I moved to Los Angeles. Some neighbors of mine who belonged to the “big hair - metal set” invited me to a Guns & Roses party. Being the ever so naive young lad I declined because somehow I thought bringing guns and roses […]
This is a repost of an old Radio blog entry of mine (Feb 2002) . Hope the links still work
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I just watched Armin Zoeggler of Italy win Olympic Gold in luge - beating Georg Hackl by the smallest margin. Its been eight years since the Italians have won an Olympic medal. Paul Hildgartner was the last […]
A burglar is rifling through his victims living room when he hears a disembodied voice.. “Jesus is watching you..” - The burglar pauses, looks around but when he sees nobody he continues. Again the voice drifts across the darkened living room ” …Jesus is watching you…” The burglar turns quickly and realizes that across the […]
This post originaly appeared in my now defunct Radio blog.
Have I ever mentioned Bill Wunder’s SQL Server Page?? Its a good reference page to have.
Why was Jesus in the desert for 40 days being tempted? Whats the purpose of that exercise? Here is an interesting point of view: He was being tempted because he could choose to commit a sin. Sounds reasonable? Free will and all that right? OK - but since Jesus was fully God doesn’t that mean […]
An newly-wed English man describes his experience on the Maldive islands - which are the lowest country on earth, and were directly in the path of the tsunami. Various accounts say that 43 islands completely vanished.
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