Hirlpoo West

A fascinating and intellectual take on why we (especially Americans) are fat in Harvard Magazine . I’ve been following a low carb regime for over a year now, and am 50lbs lighter because of it. I have several collogues who have had similar benefits...

A while back I had a customer complain that their web form application broke when they migrated from v1.0 to v1.1 of the .NET Framework. Turns out they utilized HttpServerUtility::Transfer (or more commonly in a Page class, Server.Transfer) and had some...

I get at least one email a month where I know my name gets on the To or Cc line because of bad Outlook auto complete, so it is worth it for me to pass this on.

I’ve always enjoyed Pat Helland’s explanations of architectural concepts. He recently put out a new article on MSDN likening the rise in IT technology to the rise of commerce in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. A great read to put things in...

During vacation last week, I was in the process of shutting down my main laptop when I got tired of waiting for Excel to save and killed it. Later I tried to reboot and got some funky error. Uh oh, me thinks. Excel taking so long to save was not a function...

Here I am trying to wrap my head around threading models, and some blog goodness drops into my RSS inbox (thanks: The Old New Thing): What are these "Threading Models" and why do I care? (from Larry Osterman) SimpleScript Part Six: Threading Technicalities...

There has been a recent discussion internally amongst the ADC’s in my region* about threading and WinForms. I originally cut my teeth in Windows programming by writing a multi-threaded NT Service that ran on a Alpha based Windows NT 3.51 system...

Looks like I’ll have to be more careful driving in my new home. Link

I know a few people who shall remain nameless that start playing solitaire and fall into this trance where they are completely un-reachable. And not in the “oh, I wasn’t in cell phone coverage” kind of unreachable, but the “requires...