I try to be good; I try to make multiple backups. What I hate most is that knawing feeling that you hope that at the end of the day, what you just did was completely pointless. You don't want to use them. You want to look at your backup media in 10 years and think "Huh. Oh yeah. I guess I can toss...

I suck at Starcraft. This would no doubt win me no friends in Korea, but it has to be said. I just don't click with management games, building games, God games. Starcraft, SimCity, Civilization. Any of 'em. It's not that I dislike them. I can quite understand why people play them. But their and my game...

Mojito is the name I'm using for a Graffiti -compatible version of by Kyle Neath 's Hemingway theme for Wordpress. Hemingway has its share of enthusiasts and detractors. Mainly they consider the navigation to be somewhat lacking. Form follows function, folks: it's a blog theme. Don't use it on a site...

Had seven freakin’ hours of fairly intrusive dental surgery last week. This unhappy state of affairs is mostly due to botched root canal work a while back by some complete hack who shall remain both nameless and grateful that I’m not litigious. The surgery itself went well, but bloody hell...

Woo hoo! The previous entry is dated February 27th, 2006. A whole year without a blog post. Actually, that's a little disingenuous; I have blogged intermittently at both http://blog.primecondition.com and http://blogs.interfacett.com/simon . And there was at least an original intention behind having...

So I, along with a few other folks, have been working on a web app for quite some time now, and we decided to do the cliched thing and decloak out of stealth mode to (a) be finally upfront about what we've been doing and (b) allow people to signup if they're interested in the upcoming beta. The site...

(Another suitor writes in response to a .NET Love Story Continues ) I'm so glad you Split from that Builder. He's not a good enough Provider, just a BackgroundWorker in a Factory. You told me yourself he wasn't a good Listener and treated you like an Object. Even though you would Try and Try again, you...

Some time ago, the vagaries of personalization were examined in a whole spate of articles best characterized by one in the Wall Street Journal called “My Tivo Thinks I’m Gay”, talking about the amusing (or annoying) results of an out-of-context single choice leading to strange automated...

Had a week in Las Vegas last week teaching ASP.NET 2.0. I don’t gamble. It’s not from any particular moral objection: people should be able to go to hell any way they want to. I just find it a ridiculous pursuit – as the saying goes, a tax on people who don’t understand math....

I’m working my way through some Microsoft Official Courseware this evening to prepare for an upcoming course, and I’m just despairing at the long-winded, content-free garbage I’m so often saddled with when teaching the official curriculum. Here’s a direct cut-and-paste from a...