Archive for January, 2006

The Topic We Don’t Speak Of (Here)

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

No, this is not a post about technology. It is a post about where I’m going to post my techology-related thoughts. I’ve actually been putting them elsewhere for some time now, I just stopped for a little bit. So until I create a WordPress blog just for my nerdy little ...

4 Years!

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Tomorrow Mary and I celebrate four years of marriage! It has been so awesome to see Mary grow spiritually, emotionally, and now even physically (babies do that to mommies when they’re growing inside). We’ve had a lot of exciting things happen in four years of marriage! We’ve traveled to France and ...

Reining In

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Jeff pointed out that my blog is boring when I talk about technical stuff. Mary recently mentioned it too. Sorry, I gave in, I’m not going to do that any more. Some time ago I decided that on this blog–my personal blog–I was only going to post content that my ...

KeePass Password Manager

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

If you’re like me you’ve got like 150 passwords. There’s no way you can remember all those without writing them down. I’ve been using KeePass to remember them all. It’s a free, super-stable, secure, extendable password manager with a really nice user interface. w00t! You can even set it up ...

100 Greatest Guitar Solos (and Tab!)

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

This has got to be the coolest guitar resource, ever. A list of the top 100 guitar solos of all time, and the TAB to play them! Awesome! I can’t wait to print them off and learn to play them ALL. What follows is the list of all 100 songs selected, ...

The Best Designs

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

“…The best designs contain the fewest elements necessary to communicate the idea.” Peterson, Bryan L. Design Basics for Creative Results. Cincinnati: HOW Design Books, 2003.

I Will Learn to Sing

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

So I thought I’d add another resolution to my list for this year: I am always walking around thinking “I sure wish I could sing better.” I’ve got a couple of vocal warm up/training CDs, a book, and a DVD but I’m still not getting it. I like my voice ...

Project 86: And The Rest Will Follow

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Project 86 is one of those few bands that have managed to reinvent themselves on nearly every album and yet still keep their long time fans happy. Their newest album, “… And The Rest Will Follow,” is certainly no exception. From dark whispers to 80’s style singing/yelling (yeah, it actually ...

GSpace for Firefox

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Gmail File Space (GSpace) is a Firefox extension that allows you to use your Gmail account for file storage. It works much like the FireFTP extension (or any FTP program for that matter): You just select the file in the left pane, create a “folder” in the right pane, ...

A Simple Date Problem

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Today at work I encountered what looks like a very simple problem: get the date for a specific day of last week (i.e. “What was last Tuesdays date?”) using VB.NET. For a human this is a simple task but for a computer it is actually quite complex. Tao and Chris ...