23 Mar
2005

Mew MSDN Subscriptions

A lot of hay has been made over the new MSDN licensing programs that include Team System licenses. Before I just throw out a wholesale, “That’s BS, man!” I am going to wait to see what Team System would truly mean for our team.  My team and I are going to attend VS Live this […]

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19 Mar
2005

KTM 990 Super Duke

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Heard of this thing yet?  KTM is hitting the street bike market with a 120 horse street fighter, releasing in Europe for 2005 and USA for 2006.  They have this website that just blows me away.  I have never seen a traditional manufacturer treat their bike in such a irreverent and aggressive way.  The video […]

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18 Mar
2005

Kill Me, Please

I have been at home for a week taking a “vacation” so that my wife can fritter the week away in Cabo San Lucas with her girlfriends.  Why am I at home?  To care for my 4 kids, ages 8-3. Dear, Lord, I love them, but I could just eat a bullet by now.  Have […]

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12 Mar
2005

Triumph Rocket III Test Ride

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My dealer, Big Twin Cycles, was holding a Triumph open house today and so I went down on my Tiger and parked it for a test ride on the new 2005 Rocket III. I don’t know what the blokes in England were thinking, but they have created a monster.  I am no stranger to big cruisers, having ridden […]

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7 Mar
2005

Dot Net Nuke 3

I maintain the website for my kid’s school and I am sick of marking up HTML by hand.  To solve this, I pulled the latest release of Dot Net Nuke. I haven’t seen Dot Net Nuke for a couple of years, since version 1, in fact.  I am very impressed.  The version that I pulled was […]

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6 Mar
2005

The Society of Other by William Nicholson

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I throughly enjoy books like The Society of Others.  This book borrows its tone from other works by Kafka and The Giver by Lois Lowry.  Set in the non-plausible society of a modern eastern European country, Nicholson wants badly to have a tyrannical government to use as a protagonist, but in reality comes up short in […]

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5 Mar
2005

Software Developers as Commodities

I have always thought that as a software developers, we make products. I have taken pride in this, the idea that we actually create something. The something that we create varies from project to project; it may be a web application, a smart client application, databases, middle ware components, whatever. Further, I also believe that […]

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