I got myself hopelessly hooked on Spooks, a BBC series that airs in the US in the A&E network as “MI-5.” And no, that’s not James Bond’s service. 007 is in MI-6. Think of MI-6 as the CIA and MI-5 as the Department of Homeland Security. Spooks is pretty much the same as 24, but [...]

I have been a long time supporter of RSS as a way to keep track of long reading lists. Those of us that are news junkies appreciate the ease in which a good RSS reader allows us to track changes across dozens of sites concurrently. A bit ago Google came up with a rudimentary RSS [...]

Funny thing is this cartoon is an exact recreation of an incident that happened to us a couple years ago. It is literally word-by-word exactly as it happened. Technorati Tags: Apple, geek, wireless

One of the (small) problems of the authentication controls in ASP.net 2.0 is that they do too much for you. Sometimes you want to write your own enrollment forms, which means you have to either call the built-in user creation functions, or replace them with your own so the whole thing still works off the [...]

I finally got used to the D50, and it was basically by accident. A friend of Ivette’s was complaining that she broke her digital camera, and my Sony DSC-P200 has been literally unused since the day I pulled it out of the box. I highly doubt that I have shot 1000 frames through it. And [...]

Early yesterday I posted to a Fark thread on monster.com and the perceived lack of a long-term prospect for people that want to work IT. A while after, somebody sent me an anonymous sponsorship for a month of access to Total Fark. It is a mere $5 but the gesture is priceless, thanks! For those [...]

Here’s the dilemma: In previous versions of asp.net all you need to deploy a website is simply to copy it wherever the hell you want it. If you are working on changes from your local copy, you can use a mirror program to compare your local copy to the staging or production server and see [...]

Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray barb went through his chest. The prime minister of Australia called it a “sudden, untimely and freakish death,” which makes no sense since, well, he was a wildlife expert. Getting killed by wildlife while filming a documentary is not freakish, just a workplace hazard. That’s like saying a [...]

Today was my second visit to the Smithsonian Institution Air & Space museum annex at the Dulles International Airport. The first time I was hopelessly overwhelmed, there was so much cool stuff to watch and I tried to see it all in one visit. Ended up shooting over 500 frames, of which I posted over [...]