I’m up at the wee hours of the morning (OK, it’s 5 am… I had a solution to a problem, and couldn’t get back to sleep). As I was perusing some blogs I noticed this entry from Scoble . I want to say first that I really like Scoble. When I’m a good blogger, I like to believe that it’s Scoble’s influence...

I gotta share a little story with you guys. I could remove all the names to protect the guilty, but we do too much of that. Sometimes I think embarassing companies (or their IT people) for system failures is good. I know that if some of my past mistakes had been exposed to the world I’d think better...

[UPDATE: I fixed the formatting on this post. I'm using the Firefox Deepest Sender plugin to write posts... I need to work with a bit more... sorry] So I have begun my first week at ASPSOFT. I work from home in case you didn't catch that from my previous posts on the subject (yes, I'm rubbing it in)...

So as you may know I spent the last 9 months looking for a career move. I didn't want a new job; I wanted a better job. So with Eric Wise's Interview questions in hand, I interviewed (and turned down) a lot of companies in the last year; I also ticked off a lot of recruiters because I just wouldn't take...

For those who don't know, church hopping is a practice that some Christians (I don't know about other religions) do to find a new local congregation to attend. While it is sometimes necessary (for a number of reasons) to do this, sometimes folks do it only because the current church is not as exciting...

I'm in process with a How To Select Guide on e-mail (actually there are a couple of us CodeBetter bloggers involved in writing guides for other components). I've actually written my first version and second versions. The actual guide will be published sometime in September. I decided that I would do...

This is a quick personal (kind of) post. I just wanted my regular readers to stay tuned. I will be back (am back). I've had an extremely busy couple of weeks. I'm writing a guide for the How TO Select Guides on Internet E-mail components, have been extremely busy at work, and tie down pretty heavy by...

You know this fantasy conference has not been as good as the Sells XML Conference. I hope he has another one of those soon; I'll sign up ASAP this time. Seriously it appears that Darrell is having a good time. I still wish I was there (basically nothing cool or funny to say today.. I'm working! Dang...

I'm sick today, so I spent sometime looking at some OOP patterns (isn't that what you do when you're sick?) I found this website a while back. I had looked at the factory patterns before, and had been trying to think through the when angle of these. Some of these patterns it is suggested that you should...

Ok, I want to jump off on something that got posted in the comments regarding my whole experts deal (BTW, whether you agreed/understood what I was saying... the whole discussion was interesting). So I got a comment on the first post ( here's the comment) where the anonymous commenter said this "Life...