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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

"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

Published 21 December 7 2:25 AM | William

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Business Travel Sucks

Published 13 December 7 1:9 AM | William

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

Published 5 December 7 2:9 PM | William

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Truer words have not been spoken

Published 30 November 7 11:55 PM | William

Raymond Lewallen posted the following on his Twitter page . if i get one more vampire bite thingy whatever from facebook, i'm going to kick @ CalebJenkins in the nuts! Its seems to have started there. about 8 hours ago from Witty I know I'm out...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me

Fighting the Bull

Published 7 September 7 10:15 AM | William

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought...

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

Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

Published 4 September 7 3:44 AM | William

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Passenger's bill of duties

Published 9 August 7 10:39 AM | William

Athough it's been relatively slow in the past few months, I typically have to engage in a good bit of air travel and it seems that many developers/consultants I know are in the same boat.. TSA and similar concerns have made air travel more frustrating...

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

Lunch with Wally

Published 2 February 7 7:38 PM | William

I had the pleasure of eating lunch today with Pat Piccollo, Zach Moore , John Croft and none other than Wally I need more Cowbell McClure. I actually Co-Authored Professional ADO.NET 2.0 with Wally and John but never got to meet John until today. Wally...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

The AngryPharmacist and the Drug Monkey

Published 28 January 7 10:7 PM | William

Every day we go about out lives and we interact with people who we probably don't even think twice about. Many of us interact with pharmacists and never think twice about it, or what they think of us. I know mr 375lb bench press aka 'the lower cased one...

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

The utter lameness of UPS

Published 16 January 7 12:50 AM | William

As most of you probably know, I'm a little strange by most standards. I only leave my house b/c I'm forced to make a living which requires me to. Other than that, I'd probably never leave other than to go to the bookstore. So I shop online for everything...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Random Thoughts

Published 3 January 7 11:52 PM | William

If you're miserable, making other people miserable won't bring you happiness. The dude who said, "You can have it good, fast or cheap, pick two" knew his stuff. If you use the phrase "I'm confused" more than once a day, and/or you use it as a question...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Another one down

Published 2 January 7 4:10 AM | William

I was quite fortunate and won the MVP award for this year. It appears my Uber Homie Chris Williams won too. I expect to see a lot more great folks getting renewed or inducted into the program.

Filed under: Life in General, MVP Stuff, Me

Back with a bang

Published 2 January 7 3:41 AM | William

I've taken a hiatus from blogging but am going to try to get back on track full speed. I've been tech editing a great Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) book titled Professional WCF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Communication Foundation...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me

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

Football Brawls

Published 15 October 6 8:13 PM | William

Well, I know I probably sound like a snob for saying this, but the big news of the FIU/Miami game isn't the brawl , rather it's that the game happened in the first place. I know all the reasons for the game and understand all that crap, but even...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

How screwed up are you?

Published 2 September 6 2:58 AM | William

"It's the kind of thing that makes you want to sit in a room with no furniture and cut the eyes out of pictures". Lately, I'm starting to understand where Vernon was coming from......

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

Off to Redmond for a while

Published 9 July 6 10:58 AM | William

Well, I'm heading out to Redmond for a few weeks for work on a top secret project. I got food poisoning the other night and have been out of commission for the past few days but I'm starting to feel normal again. Food poison sucks. Anyway, I'm flying...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Errata for 70-536

Published 5 July 6 1:42 AM | William

I just wanted to open up a discussion on it so here it is . I'll be posting updates/corrections/everything else there and if anyone is interested in posting, the floor is open. Please use the link above (here it is) to post. For some reason there...

Filed under: Life in General, Books, Me, Misc Technology, Certification