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Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart

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Yo Peeps
It happened so long ago that I don't even remember why I did it, but I've just been informed that I've been listed on 25peeps.com . You know, now that I think about it, it's pretty dumb idea. Maybe it's fine for normal blogs, but for tech blogs? I don't Read More...
Using the Biztalk Sharepoint Adapter
Biztalk 2006 ships with an out of the box adapter that can talk to Sharepoint Services. The only serves two purposes - posting messages (documents) to Sharepoint as part of an orchestration, or receiving messages (documents) into an orchestration from Read More...
Vista Upgrade - Mostly Good
A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed. My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major. Things Read More...
Upgrade Scariness
So Office 2007 is out. This is good. This is wonderful. This is scary. To install the RTM version of Office 2007, you must uninstall all the beta versions of it first. Not a problem. Uninstall. But what's going to happen to my email? Oh dear. Update 10 Read More...
Getting Mo'ey
I thought I'd post a shot of how my Mo is going one week in (the photo was taken one week in, even if this post is a little late). Yes, I know it looks like the goatee is coming back, but it's just shadow - the sides of the mo go straight down, and that's Read More...
My Sister Deserves Death, But Only After A Lot Of Pain
My sister sent me a link to this site last week. It's a riddle site. They're really hard. I love em. I'm currently on level 56, which means I've almost finished all the ones that are there so far. Now I can't sleep. Gah! Die Deb, die! :) Read More...
Dear Lord, What Have I Done To My Face?
From about the age I was 17, I decided that I didn't like how I looked clean-shaven. So I grew a goatee. I much preferred it over smooth skin. It had to shaved off when I was at school - I want to private school where one of the rules was that the guys Read More...
The Winner Loses
Hmm..I think I'm on a bit of a musical bent today - first EverClear and now BodyCount :) Yesterday I wrote about how GreatNews won over Newzie (which caused Mitch to go back to using Squeet - I'm not sure how that logic path works, but it does - not to Read More...
So Much For the Afterglow
No, that's an EverClear song. So much for the Melbourne Geek Dinner I was going to organise, is what I meant to say. I've been in Melbourne for 4 weeks, as part of an 8 week job I was assigned to. Plenty of time to get things sorted out, right? There Read More...
Outlook Had Its Chance
Recently I mentioned that I was giving Outlook 2007 a go as my RSS reader . The result? It's been less than a full week, and I say HELL NO! Some people might like it, but for me all it does really slow outlook down (I know my wife is having no troubles, Read More...
Meet The Family
As I get around to taking a lot of different pictures of myself for the Gaptcha control, I've decided to also occasionally include photos of other members of my family. Now, while I can recognise and identify members of my family, I'm certainly not expecting Read More...
Want To Make a Search Provider?
This is quite neat. When the non-RTM builds of IE7 were floating around, you had the opportunity to write your own search providers for your website (or other sites) if you couldn't find one already. I went through the effort of writing one (ok, so it Read More...
New TV Shows
Damn - I forgot that the new TV season started in the states a few weeks back. I've been off in Melbourne so long that I forgot all about it. I've been keeping up to date with SG-1 and Atlantis, but the current seasons have been airing for a while now, Read More...
Giving Outlook A Chance
Hot on the heels of my wife doing it *, I've decided to give Outlook 2007 a go as my RSS reader. After spending so long with bloglines, I'm now always on the same computer constantly, so I don't have to keep multiple machines in sync anymore. I've started Read More...
GAPTCHA - It's Live! Please tell me what you think!
Update: The source is now live ! Well, I was up until 1am this morning getting it polished enough, and then I had to wait until morning for some tech support on some SQL that I wrote (damnit, I used SQL2005 syntax for one proc when I should have remembered Read More...