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September 2005 - Posts

Simi Valley Fires
My wife had a hard time getting home from work yesterday due to the fires all around Simi (where I live). I'm out at a client so I haven't experienced them yet, but here are a few photos from my brother-in-law (that is his girlfriend Alison): The fires Read More...
Use your SmartPhone as a Modem
Today I needed an Internet connection on my laptop to send in my time report, but I couldn't plug it into the network at the client. After some searching I found this article on Smart Phone Thoughts which worked perfectly: Smartphones, in spite of their Read More...
BillG and NapoleonD
Via Patrick : This video was probably one of the funniest moments at the PDC. Bill really has some talent as a movie actor. That video was one of the highlights of the PDC. I thought it was one of the best BillG movies I've seen... Read More...
Some PDC Linqs
I am at the PDC have a great time. I haven't posted anything simply because I've been way too busy and so I'm just soaking everything in. I'm planning on posting my thoughts soon (if you care). In the meantime here are a few links that point to things Read More...
My PDC 2005 Schedule
Here is my current schedule for the PDC. Most of the time slots have two sessions only because I either haven't had time to decide or I want to keep my options open. I'm hoping to take notes and post them here. Schedule for Bryant Likes Monday, September Read More...
Some Good News from New Orleans
I used to live about 45 minutes from New Orleans, so it is nice to see some good news coming out of a city that could really use a lot more good news: via AP : Some lights are on in the city of New Orleans as shown in this night photo made late Tuesday, Read More...
Feed your Start Run Addiction
Check out this great post at Coding Horror : In lieu of all these fancy solutions.. wouldn't it be nice if the Start, Run dialog was just a little bit smarter? That's when I stumbled across this blog post describing a very clever hack: Create a folder Read More...
Master of Some
From Clemmens talking about technology overload: Enter VS2005 and the summary of trying to achieve the same knowledge density is: “Frustrating”. I feel his frustration. I remember going to PDC 2003 and realizing that it was getting very hard Read More...