November 2006 - Posts
I have several cites added to my Yahoo! Locations. My brother lives in Ridgefield, CT and my dad is up in Show Low. I'm curious to know what's up in their neck of the woods. Oh and Portland because I used to live there and I am nostalgic. Anyhoo, today
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I read an AZ Central article back in October that talked about how eight lion statues were set to be removed from a park at Westgate City Center because they are "anatomically correct". Oh the horror! Evidently some uptight Phoenician (or maybe "Glendalian"...is
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I have a plan. Let's push back on the junk mailers and phone solicitors by wasting their time. Goodness knows junk mail wastes our time and money . Yellow Book USA is one such wasteful company. They publish phone books in Phoenix. Yellow Book hires day
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So I'm driving to ASU yesterday morning, I exit the 202 south onto Rural and look to my right (because I like to see Tempe Town Lake and the ASU Rowing club is often already out training. That's dedication!). Anyhoo, yesterday I look over and -- holycow!
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Tigers are in trouble . We have been killing them for a long time and we've finally gotten rid of all but about 5,000. This news is not new. Tigers were in danger when I was a kid but there weren't enough caring humans to change their circumstances. Now
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There seems to be a lot of “talk” regarding the new browsers: Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. Here's some of what I've learned from sifting through the chatter over the past couple weeks... Firefox 2.0 employs the same rendering engine as Firefox
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Nice collection of Windows Vista resources that was circulating through campus email last week. Just thought I'd share with my 3.5 readers... Windows Vista Home page Get Ready site Get Ready for Windows Vista, Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs,
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Saw some interesting trivia about Windows Vista . I can't take credit for these, they were sent around in an email here at ASU and I think they might have first appeared on the Vista blog . Anyhoo just thought I'd format and post for your Monday morning
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Since I'm a bit of a goof * ...and since nobody invited me to DevConnections :sad: ...I get to sit at home practicing my new hobby -- catching typos on the CNBC tickers. Saw this on Wednesday morning while my 2nd favorite TV personality, Jim Cramer, was
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How do you pinpoint a memory leak in ASP on IIS 5.0? Other than create virtual directories and such, it's been years since I did any real admin work with IIS. But yesterday I researched a reported memory leak on one of our Windows 2000 servers. Some of
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Saturday evening went out to Casa Grande where my mom was playing host to a few of her new neighbors. CG will grow like a weed in the coming years but right now it feels like you're out in the middle of nowhere. Lots of farmland and not a whole lot to
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So this is what former president Bill Clinton looks like, when you don't show up early to the party. See him? Don't feel bad. I didn't see much more. BTW, if you don't live in Tempe, I have to tell you it was a beautiful day! Anyhoo it was really great
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$$ Wow, free money $$ Just look how much extra cash you can put in your pocket! Umm...you do like money, right? This month many employers' HR departments will be reminding people to choose their 2007 Flexible Spending Account (FSA) allowance. Here is
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