So I have been ignoring these messages I've been receiving for a while about Silverlight. Now I might not have ignored it, but it said my version of Silverlight expired. Ok so big deal. You might say, ''Why not just go get a new version?'' Well it says to go to a certain URL. You can't click on the URL, and you can't copy and paste the text. ...

I often write queries in SQL Server Management Studio to find different bits of information about which I am curious. This is quite easy and I discover a lot of useful and interesting things this way. You might ask why I am writing this blog post. I'll first say that I try to share these little tidbits with others. Sure I could bring people over ...

I just tried to chat with a tech support person about restoring from a Ghost image and this is what I got:Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e31' Timeout expired /sdccommon/inc/db/dbcommon.inc, line 276 Nice use of include files in asp classic that is only about 6-7 years old! And of course this message was seen ...

So I desperately needed to rollback the deletion of six source code files, which, by the way, were asp.net custom control classes. See previous post. The simple solution, right click on the files and select Rollback, Revert, or some other command. Okay, so maybe the command is nested somewhere below that point in the command hierarchy. Or NOT! ...

I can't believe it. How stupid is Microsoft? I swear. They ship a supposed rock-solid server-based source control system and don't provide a rollback feature? I didn't discover this until today when I inadvertantly deleted some source files. So I'm rooting around for an hour trying to figure out how to restore the files from ...

With the power that search engines seem to have now, it has become difficult to design anything without considering them. Anytime I am trying to find anything I check Google first, and I often use Google to search sites that have their own searches. One reason I see for this is that all sites seem to try to optimize for search engines now. I ...

Just read the article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. in the latest issue of Rolling Stone on election rigging. You have to read this article about how easy it is for elections in the US to be stolen by either those in control or the companies like Diebold who have pushed their totally-hackable (by employees, political cheats, or anyone for that matter) ...

Many could rightly accuse me of being a lackey of sorts for Microsoft. But every so often, I have just have to scream ''WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???''. This is the first in a series of posts (unless I get bored with it) on stupid, bread-dead Microsoft decisions: #1: Who makes use of the fact that a label added to a Web Form or WinForms app has the ...

<rant> So I am using my very cool new Sprint 6700 Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone which is awesome and I am sitting on an airplane at SeaTac airport this morning. Okay, I have sucked at blogging lately....Sorry....but so I decide this phone is going to help me blog during free moments. So this was one of those moments. In fact, it was the ...