November 2006 - Posts

Is this a joke?

Published 5 November 6 8:19 PM | William

I got the following phishing/spam yesterday and didn't think much about it. Dear Greater Atlantic Bank Cardholder, As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the Greater Atlantic Bank system. We recently contacted you after...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Phil Hendrie starts to redeem himself

Published 2 November 6 3:20 AM | William

Ever since Phil decided that he was going to leave radio, life just hasn't been the same. However Phil http://www.philhendrieshow.com/ . He's got a new site. He's got a ton of new clips. He's got a ton of vintage clips. Yep, even stuff...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

Musings on the database formerly known as Sql Everywhere

Published 2 November 6 2:53 AM | William

The IM volume I received today about the Rollback to SqlCE issue was enough to border on overwhelming. Between PMs and some lazy SOB CRM guy trying to get me to do all his work for him, it was hard focusing on work today. (And seriously, if you are a...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

A mobile database by any other name...

Published 1 November 6 2:1 AM | William

I'm really torn about this post. On the one hand Microsoft has repeated one of their most annoying feats. However they did it with a product that I love, so I feel a little bad dogging it out. What am I talking about? They renamed that little database...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access