Movies

Lord of the Rings

Lisa and I (and Jim) saw Return of the King on Friday. I’ve seen both the normal and extended versions of the first and second movie, which makes me drool for the extended version of Return of the King. The extended editions flowed much better, and when you’re at home, you can consume them in 2 hour stints. I personally consider all three parts to be one long movie. And, there is no doubt in…

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ASP.NET on Windows 2003, Solved

Tomas Restrepo led me to the solution to my ASP.NET 1.0 problem in IM tonight (see? it’s already paying off). The essential issue for me was one of security: the default settings for IIS 6 do NOT allow you to run un-approved ISAPI DLLs. There’s a Microsoft support article that sort of describes the process in a generic sense, but I thought I’d tell you what I had to do explicitly. When you run aspnet_regiis for ASP.NET 1.1,…

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Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Not Me?

I am going to Microsoft. When Peter left for the PAG group at Microsoft, I confidentially told him that he had to let me know when the next opening came around. I had to leave the startup I’d been working at for 2 years right around that time. I took a contract with NewsGator, and set about to start finding something that was in line with my career goals. I talked to a few places about getting into corporate developer…

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Welcome!

Welcome to my social experiment. I hope you don’t regret your visit. 🙂 WHO:  Me, of course. Just me. Well, and there’s you, but I can’t see you, so try not to make too much noise while you’re crawling around the site, okay? I keep odd hours. WHAT:  Pretty much just whatever I feel like. As you can guess by the site title, I’ll often be talking about technical topics, especially those related to .NET…

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Reflector 4.0 and Plugin

So, I get the “hot off the presses news” that Reflector 4.0 was released yesterday. I download, and of course, it’s an excellent upgrade. What I didn’t realize, though, is that there’s a Visual Studio .NET plugin for Reflector, which makes it all the more useful to me now. Here you can see Reflector embedded into Visual Studio, with not only the .NET 1.1 libraries loaded, but also a good number of the 3rd party components that I…

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Audio

10 Songs I Didn’t Choose

As seen at adimiron’s place: Step 1: Open your mp3 player. (iTunes here) Step 2: Put all of your music on random. Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing. “Crave” – Nuno – Schizophonic “Universal Mind” – Liquid Tension Experiment – Liquid Tension Experiment “Fool Like You” – Ozzy Osbourne – Ultimate Sin “The Words Unspoken” – Andromeda – Extension of the Wish “Brain Damage” – Eminem – The Slim…

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I Haven’t Decided…

…if blog tools suck, or RSS sucks, or NewzCrawler sucks. I might even lean to a combination of the three. Since upgrading to NewzCrawler 1.5, there is a constant stream of RSS feeds that are broken. For the moment, it’s Ethan Brown’s feed and Chris Pirillo’s feed. Elizabeth Griggjust fixed hers yesterday, and Mike Gunderloy (of Larkware News) and I exchanged a few e-mail messages dealing with things in his feed. Radio Userland — as always — is the…

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Gmail for the Troops

Wil Wheaton posts about giving your Gmail invites to overseas troops, who are stuck with lesser (slower and smaller space) free web mail accounts. Since disk space is especially the key to being able to send pictures and videos both ways, it’s a huge win to get able to give them 1GB of free drive space. Sounds good to me. I have 1 left to give away, and when I get more, I’ll go looking for…

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Say No to Reviews

I’ve given this some off-and-on thought, but after reading this thread, I’ve decided that I’m not going to do performance reviews. 1. Communication is too important. If I’m not communicating to you so that you know whether you’re doing a good job or not, then you should yell at me to talk to you more. A forced annual review is not going to solve a bad communication problem. 2. Self-reviews are insulting. Asking a person to…

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Yes, Programming is Harder

Joel posted a pair of essays about why programming is harder. Primarily, he cites the number of technologies one had to be fluent in to be a good programmer as the metric for difficulty. Jason responds by saying that programming isn’t harder, just different. Whereas before you used to twiddle bits and move bytes, today you get to work on a higher level. They’re both right. I think what Jason is forgetting is that most people aren’t as smart as…

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