I wanted to take the opportunity to thank Brendan, and the gang here for all the good times. It's been a great opportunity. I decided with much fear and consideration to set up my own closed blogging community site. I have recently set up my own community blogging site at TheRuntime.com . If you...

Peter tagged me a few days ago, and I haven’t had a chance to respond. So here goes… 5 things you don’t know about me (do you really want to know this?) I not only write code, but music although I’m not coordinated enough to really play an instrument although I think I have a...

You know this fantasy conference has not been as good as the Sells XML Conference. I hope he has another one of those soon; I'll sign up ASAP this time. Seriously it appears that Darrell is having a good time. I still wish I was there (basically nothing cool or funny to say today.. I'm working! Dang...

<pure_fiction reason="I'm not at TechEd">I imagine that after a long night, I would just be getting to the conference right now... A long night with Don and Melissa Demsak (in my mind she's really nice... since I've never met her, I really don't know) and whoever else is hanging with them. After...

I decided to blog about my non-experiences at TechEd 2005. I didn't get to go... It sold out before I could get all my paperwork at work to go through. Right now I would be experiencing the Key-note. I think this was going to be delivered by Steve Balmer (since I couldn't go I lost interest in seeing...

Ok, I want to jump off on something that got posted in the comments regarding my whole experts deal (BTW, whether you agreed/understood what I was saying... the whole discussion was interesting). So I got a comment on the first post ( here's the comment) where the anonymous commenter said this "Life...

Ok, yesterday , I think I may have ruffled a few feathers, so let me try follow up with a bit more explanation. My problems are not with blogging. I use blogging as a way to get feedback on my own sometimes strange ideas. I like that aspect of Tech Blogging. I love that I can have dialogues (and can...

I've been contemplating this one for a while... I'm not sure where all this blogging thing is going. Don't get me wrong I love blogging. I'm just not sure what we are accomplishing (I know a few of you out there I pushed in this direction). I think we are starting to get a cacophony of noise. Several...

I guess I might not be at TechEd. Chris Wallace reports that it is sold out. This really sucks! I wasted a little time on this but it has taken my employer even longer... I have yet to get a confirmation from my employer (it wasn't a done deal as of yesterday... so you can bet it's not done today). With...

This is my attempt at trying to get a couple of people a new job. Dave Balzer The first is my best friend Dave. Dave has been programming professionally for about 5 years. He and I have known each other for close to 15 years. He is the inspiration for my Adventures in OOP where I got him a little more...