Untitled-4 Blog Jul 15, 2004 I’m Fried My brain is totally fried. I finished Lab 5, and it's ultra-cool if I do say so myself. Gonna knock off now and eat take-out Chinese while I watch last night's Amazing Race. One the one hand, I'm hoping I can...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 13, 2004 Gain control of your IT infrastructure while saving cost and time with a private cloud. Problems with the Left Wing President Bush was in town yesterday visiting nearby Oak Ridge National Lab. My wife and kids positioned themselves along the motorcade route and waved American flags as the president's limousine sped by. Bush had to leave town on a backup plane...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 13, 2004 Been a Long Day I spent a long day working on Lab 4 today and making revisions to Labs 1, 2, and 3. The day started at 5:30 a.m. when my home office phone, which has an extension in the study next to the bedroom,...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 13, 2004 Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 Forms authentication is amazingly simple in ASP.NET 2.0. Not only does it manage user credentials and roles for you, it also provides controls for logging in, creating new users, e-mailing lost passwords, and more. It even maps requests to roles,...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 12, 2004 And You Think You Have Problems… An old friend from my PC Magazine days sent me a link to this short but funny video. How would you have handled it had you been the guy in the video?
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 12, 2004 Last One, I Promise (Maybe) And then there's this video of two R/C planes colliding in mid-air, set to the tune of Pat Benetar's “Invincible.”
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 12, 2004 Tomcat Alert These R/C jet guys are serious. If you don't believe it, check out this video of a scale-model F-14 Tomcat being put through its paces in France. Drool drool.
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 12, 2004 Provocative Reading I'm reading a terrific book right now: The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. It lays out a compelling and very scientific case that mankind--indeed, the universe as a whole--is the product of thoughtful design rather than happenstance. It brings...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 10, 2004 Fly Time I put the finishing touches on Lab 2 late yesterday afternoon and then decided to take a brain break. I went flying with a friend who had a brand electric new plane he wanted to try out. It flew beautifully,...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 10, 2004 Check Out This Video As an R/C airplane enthusiast, I sometimes hang out in the discussion forums at www.rcuniverse.com. One of the things you'll find there is crash videos. Check out this video of guys toasting their expensive gas-turbine R/C jets. Hurts just to watch...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 10, 2004 What? Me Burned Out? Whew! I've completed a draft of the slides and demos that go with my ASP.NET 2.0 course, and I just put the finishing touches on the first of nine labs and turned it over to my reviewers. I'm exhausted, but...
Untitled-4 Blog Jul 08, 2004 Here’s an Idea for You… Will somebody please write a tool that dumps a SQL script that not only creates a SQL Server database, but recreates its content as well? I spent hours yesterday writing a similar tool, but it works with one specific database,...