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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army Published 6 September 8 1:7 PM | William: Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy

Rescuing the Hubble Published 4 September 8 11:54 AM | William: Kudos to the Boston Globe for providing such high quality and just kick a55 pics of the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.

Filed under: News, Misc Technology

Chrome's EULA Published 4 September 8 11:32 AM | William: Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Chrome

And I thought model rockets were cool... Published 23 August 8 2:11 PM | William: I came across this piece on a home made drone and found it way cool . Well, except the part about it carrying hundreds of pounds of explosives. Assuming this is just some random engineer with resources just like the rest of us, wouldn't this be an...

And you thought I just some moron Published 13 August 8 11:37 PM | William: Many folks north of Miami-Dade county have never heard of El Chupacabra. And if you try tipping them off to it, they laugh at you like your some kind of moron. At least that's what they did when I told them. I've been warning people of the dangers...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Chupacabra

Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile Published 13 August 8 8:23 AM | William: With such a compelling title, I figured the article would be quite intriguing . I've had a lot of phone drama recently, dropping my WM 6.1 Dash and breaking it, leaving the replacement on the roof of my car and driving off, buying another imate but...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Mobility, Windows Mobile, iPhone

Helping a Worthy Cause Published 12 August 8 5:1 PM | William: Lou Vega , a good friend, fellow MVP and all around great guy just posted this on his blog today ... Lou is a 'give you the shirt off of his back' type of guy (as you can see from his post, his very kindness is why he's in need right now)...

KeyPath for component: is a Directory: . The directory/component pair must be listed in the CreateFolders table Published 11 August 8 8:19 PM | William: We've been finalizing one of our first new products in my company's product line and we're at the point where we are trying to just polish up any loose ends. I had built some installers for QA to use but for some hard to understand reason...

Filed under: WIX

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Published 10 August 8 2:28 PM | William: Seems like every time I've tried to watch a YouTube video recently, no matter what computer I was using, I got this error message. So I'd click on the link to install the latest Flash player. And it would run through the install and confirm it...

WCF to the rescue Published 7 July 8 7:41 PM | William: Although part of the idea below was mine, James Ashley was crucial to helping me figure this out. Problem: Without getting into the ghoury details, we have an application that allows users to send messages to large groups of people. Anyone using a client...

Filed under: Misc Technology, WCF, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.5 Framework, ChannelFactory

Utter Coolness compliments of Roku Published 3 July 8 4:1 PM | William: My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...

Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source

Speaking of Funny Published 1 July 8 10:52 AM | William: On the drive to work this morning, Glenn Beck had even picked up on the whole Dimitri thing posted on HCwDB . It is definitely worth downloading! KC and Ryan turned me on to HCwDB when we were at the summit, and it's just kick a55 beyond the ability...

Stuff White People Like - The Book - On Sale Tomorrow Published 1 July 8 10:48 AM | William: Stuff White People Like is just plain excellent and their book goes on sale tomorrow

Phishers still unaware of SpellCheck Published 22 June 8 5:24 PM | William: I just got this email sent to my gmail account. For all the effort they put into this, there's a pretty serious giveaway that it's shady: (I turned off links so no one accidentally falls for it). Microsoft Cororation Inc. ® <update@microsoft...

Chris Craft's 30 Days of .NET for Windows Mobile Published 11 June 8 11:1 AM | William: Chris sure is talking softly and carrying a big stick . The 30 days thing is a great concept and he's doing a bang up job.

Filed under: Compact Framework, Windows Mobile

God I hate Ajax Published 8 June 8 10:11 PM | William: I was typing up a blog post earlier today and after 15 or so complete 5-10 second freezes, my browser finally crashed. That was using IE 7. IE 8 is a whole different story (and so, not a very good one). So I started to think about how frequently my mobile...

Filed under: Rants

Looking for some .NET Developers Published 6 June 8 10:19 PM | William: A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Web Services / WSE, .NET Basics, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Biztalk, WPF, WCF, .NET 3.0 Framework, WIX, Sql Server Integration Services, SSIS, Silverlight, Sql Server, Sql Server 2008, Sharepoint, LINQ To ADO.NET, .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ, LINQ Training, ADO.NET 3.5, C# 3.5, Windows Mobile, Job Stuff

My first hours with my Amazon Kindle Published 29 May 8 12:32 AM | William: I decided to order an Amazon Kindle . As patience is not something I am overly endowed with, I paid the extra money for the expedited shipping. Along with it I bought a backup battery, another case, a car charger, home charger and storage cards (wow are...

Filed under: Kindle, Amazon Kindle

Bill gets an Amazon Kindle Published 28 May 8 10:19 AM | William: Well, almost. I bought it Sunday night and it's almost here although it's not in my hands yet. I have been trying to find a good e-book solution for a long time now. I got the Sony. I've went through a few tablets (although they weren't...

Filed under: Kindle, Amazon Kindle

The Best of Grand Theft Auto IV Published 24 May 8 12:33 AM | William: Shawn posted a link to these awesome GTA IV Death Clips on Twitter . Depending on where you work, it's probably not the safest thing to get caught watching and I wouldn't recommend watching it around young kids. With that said, it really kicks...

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