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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

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

"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

The internet addiction test

Published 21 November 7 12:48 PM | William

I scored a pretty low 33. I'm surprised, i thought I'd have done worse. However, if they substituted "computer time" with "internet" I don't think I'd have faired quite as well.

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Guitar Hero III - Misc comments and a few questions

Published 11 November 7 3:54 PM | William

When I first picked it up, I was really wondering whether or not it would be value added in any way in my life. Like I mentioned before, my TV has virtually no usage on it (until about two weeks ago) and sitting on my couch in front of the TV is not something...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

If Brian Madsen is really a friend, then he'll...............................

Published 8 September 7 6:12 PM | William

Sahil and I have been friends for a long time since then, but to this day, he's yet to give me the Cobra, Turbin and Flute that I've been hitting him up for. Yes, I'm still salty about it. Well, I just saw this piece on how bad a55 Dingos...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

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

Better keep my day job

Published 7 February 7 2:44 AM | William

I got this from Brian's - it's been around a while but always interesting to re-check. My blog is worth $10,161.72 . How much is your blog worth? Looks like i better keep my day job...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Any Thoughts?

Published 5 February 7 12:22 AM | William

So I need one of these like I need a hole in the head but I think I want one. Another thing I'm thinking about is going to Wireless N at the house. I just upgraded the stuff at Kim's house to Mimo G - and so far, it seems a lot cooler (if nothing else...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Gadgets

Uniden WIN1200 - Windows Live enabled Cordless Phone

Published 3 February 7 3:39 AM | William

I got a few new gadgets recently and have been meaning to blog about them b/c all in all, I highly recommend them. The first of these is the Uniden Win 1200 Windows Live Enabled 5800 mhz phone . I'm not a big IM User although recently, Ryan Olshan , Brian...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Secure Mobile Environment, Pleomax, Gadgets, Windows Live Messenger, SME, Ceedo

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

C Ya at the LARP

Published 1 February 7 11:28 AM | William

One of the new things I started doing in the mornings was going to the Gym. I live a few blocks away from a LA Fitness that opens up at 5:00 AM. So if possible, I try to get over there at 5:00, work out, do my morning routine and head to work. As I was...

Filed under: Humor, 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

And if Monday doesn't work for you..

Published 26 January 7 1:26 AM | William

I'll also be working at the Ready for a new Day - Launch Tour 2007 February 8, 2007. And yep, I'll be there all day. If you're attending, make sure to stop by.

Filed under: News, Me, Misc Technology