I am retiring this blog and replacing it with two new blogs:My technical blog will cover .NET, SQL Server, etc. and will be hosted on asp.net. My personal blog will cover triathlons, running, family, etc. and be hosted on blogspot.com.Thanks aspadvice.com! Paul

I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursday and sit down and chat with many well-known experts like Peli de Halleux, Scott Galloway as well as hang around at ...

I contributed a blog post to the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 Blog on Lucy's Legacy Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. If you enjoy paleontolgy/archeology/history/African culture and will be in Seattle for the MVP Summit or some other reason (or perhaps you live in the area) before March 8, I strongly recommend you go!

This was to be the week of a few easy runs and lot of carbs. It was time to enjoy my hard work and get psychologically ready for the race--the California International Marathon (a point to point race from Folsom to Saramento). I had been battling sciatica in my left leg and buttock for several months but I was hoping that it would be in check when ...

Dunno if it means anything to anyone, but I just got email stating that Joteke's Blog has scored 8.2 on Blogged.com. According to them " We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style. After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given ...

A few months ago I went to MIX08, which was I must say an excellent conference with a very different focus from DevConnections, TechEd, and PDC.  However, the weather was against me, and I've been meaning to write about it for some time.  Now that I'm about to head to 95 degree Orlando, I think it's time.  But the weather is really ...

I was talking to a couple of friends and occasional smokers today, and both were commenting about how nice it is that Seattle is almost entirely non-smoking now, so they didn't light up while in town for the MVP Summit.  I've never smoked, but listening to them, clearly they were not addicts in the hard-core packs-a-day kind, but they would ...

If you just read my blog for technical stuff, you can skip this one. So at the start of the year I set a few personal goals.  Since the best way to achieve goals, I've found, is to break them down into smaller and smaller pieces (as in ''The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step''), I thought I would assess my progress on ...

I thought I should post a follow-up since I'm sure many people ready my post on Tuesday about going to work for Microsoft on some code-named project and (a) didn't remember it was April Fool's Day and (b) didn't then read the comments where I pointed out that it was a joke.  I'm still happily self-employed and working on Lake Quincy Media, ...

I really hate repetition, especially useless repetition, in language.  I guess I've been a follower of the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) programming principle long before I knew about the acronym, but I tend to apply it in natural language as well, as much as I can.  I'm a big fan of George Carlin, who shares my view on this.  One of ...