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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Programs I Typically Run While Working

Throughout a normal workday, I have tons of different programs running at any given time.  Here is a snapshot of the programs I typically run, and why: Dev Visual Studio 2005/2008 My primary development environment. I’m normally working in Asp.net 2.0+ w/C#. Of all the different development platforms I have worked in, this is by [...]

Birmingham Folk Festival

My good friend, Ashlee Jean, is organizing the 2009 Birmingham Folk Festival.  In fact, she is the president.  I am looking forward to the festival.  It was a blast last year.

Windows 7

I have had a pretty hard time keeping my laptop functioning.  After a hard drive failure, the recovery Vista discs Gateway sent me would no longer work.  Unfortunately, they aren’t actually install discs – they just read a repair partition on the original hard drive. Gateway was not at all interested in providing me with [...]

Testing Windows Live Writer

I just watched a great talk by Scott Hanselman about Social Media for Developers.  Among other things, he recommended using Windows Live Writer as a notebook to gather your thoughts throughout the day.  So far, I like it.  This is much easier than managing drafts with WordPress.  WordPress does have a great admin system, but [...]

Remove Follower Count?

Should Twitter remove it’s follower counts? Clearly, this is a game — and really, gaining followers on Twitter, for most people, is a game. Which raises the question: Should Twitter just remove the follower counts? I think the question is a bit silly. Some people think that is important. Should you hide that information from [...]

On The ROOF

NOTE: I am not happy with this gallery setup. I’m looking for a new plugin.

Ribs. RIBS!

Eating good ribs makes me feel this good. Sometimes, even this good, if they are cooked just right. I wont be so bold as to say my ribs are on the highway to the dangerzone, but I do think they could make even an angry John Lithgow punch dance in a warehouse. It is a [...]