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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

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

Wordpress Vulnerability

Published 29 November 7 3:22 PM | William

When I saw Bruce's post on using Google crack MD5 Hashes for you , I had to chuckle. Here's a link to the article Bruce is referencing. Once again, it shows a pretty good case of the damage that can happen by overlooking the seemingly obvious...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security

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

Rootkits anyone?

Published 3 September 7 6:13 PM | William

Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced

Published 4 March 7 2:5 AM | William

This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Famous Last Words

Published 7 February 7 12:32 AM | William

I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

I guess they send the spam for a reason

Published 5 February 7 1:34 AM | William

I guess I've been on the internet so long it's hard to remember when I got my first spam email. In fact, I honestly don't have an inkling about the details of the first spam message I got. But I do know that I haven't once seriously considered responding...

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

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

Why the little things Matter

Published 25 January 7 11:51 PM | William

I've ranted over and over again about pieces of shameful incompetence I've come across over time. If you've been in the business more than a few months, you'll see things that make you say "I'm glad I don't do business with them." For instance, I was...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

Published 25 January 7 2:40 AM | William

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

A big gun comes out against Net Neutrality

Published 24 January 7 5:6 AM | William

The best part of the article is where he is said to have rejected the term net neutrality, calling it a slogan . Read the whole thing, it's excellent.

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Net Neutrality

MVP Chat Tonight at Strong Coders

Published 12 January 7 6:31 AM | William

My homie Ryan Olshan and the team at Strong Coders is hosting a public MVP Chat 01.12.07 8:00PM EDT . Although I'll be be a small fish in a big pond over there, Ryan was kind enough to invite me to join in Would love to see you over there.

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Ms. Dewey

Published 26 October 6 3:34 AM | William

Well, I've heard about Ms Dewey for a few days now and didn't think much of it. If you weren't aware of it, Ms Dewey is a little project Microsoft did to show off Windows Live Search . If you're a guy, you'll probably find her hot...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal

Published 27 September 6 6:27 AM | William

A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...

Filed under: Humor, Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Why Technical People shouldn't design interfaces...

Published 9 June 6 4:24 AM | William

Not too long ago , I discussed the fact that programmers are pretty much the last people that should be developing interfaces. My point wasn't that developers are incapable of understanding good UI design concepts, it's just that for some reason or another...

Filed under: News, Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

My book hits Amazon top 100 in Technology

Published 7 June 6 3:7 PM | William

The rankings change frequently, but yesterday, the day before My First MS Press Book was officially released, it broke the Top 100 on Amazon's rankings for Computer and Internet . It's sitting at 2,537 overall which is very cool but we have a long way...

Filed under: Life in General, Books, Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Church of the Subgenius

Published 13 April 6 10:44 PM | William

I originally heard about The Subgenius custody dispute from Karl Levinson . He was kind enough to include a few other links. http://buffalobeast.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-subgenius-child-custody-case.html http://www.buffalobeast.com/96/subgenius.custody...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Terrestial radio vs. Satellite Radio + misc rants on radio down here in the South

Published 14 January 6 9:41 PM | William

Tobin just broke down and bought a new Sirius Radio . If you read my blog at all, you probably now that I'm an XM Radio nut. I bought my first SkiFi a few years ago when I was living in the boonies (just like now) and the reception on AM was terrible...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Suggestions on NNTP Client + misc comments on the state of software

Published 7 January 6 6:21 PM | William

I've been using the IE 7 Beta for my browser for a while and really like it. I've contemplated using Firefox for a while but haven't been all that impressed. The main reason I even considered using Firefox is because Frans strongly advocates its and he...

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