Well, well... It's been a really long time since I've last blogged. Some might say I even fell off the face of the Earth. But fortunately for me, that didn't happen. This will probably sound pretty trite, but "I've been busy". Really busy. Busy with what you may ask... well... At work we've been busy...

A few weeks ago I put up some posts about Bush's new space plan... Just following up more on this story, he outlined more of this plan today. Read about it here .

A few weeks ago I posted an article about the possibility of new missions to the moon. Here's another article along the same lines . Also, if you're interested in up-to-date images from the Mars Rover (Spirit), check out this page . Very cool stuff! I can't wait until they post more photos.

President Bush reportedly wants to send a mission to the moon to hopefully leave a more permanent presence there. This is phenomenal! This is exactly what we need. A new generation of excitement for space exploration. I have been a long time proponent of exploring space and have always believed that...

It may sound crazy, but is it really a possibility? According to Prof. Ronald Mallett at the University of Connecticut it is a possibility. He has a theory that's not that far fetched. For those inclined towards Physics, here's the paper . Here's an explanation for those not endowed with Physics knowledge...

Stephen Forte talks of his amazing experience at the top of the world . Dude, You ROCK!!! When you're out in Redmond, give me a shout.

Here's a .NET project on SourceForge that will let you back up your XBOX to a remote location. Very cool! ( SourceFroge Link )

I apologize for the non-.NET post, but it's about Fry's... a geek's heaven. Today I decided to see what all this fuss about Fry's is. I've heard and read many things about Fry's Electronics stores from countless people. To me, being a displaced New Yorker (and still a New Yorker in spirit) I felt...

Ok, a while ago Steve posted a link to the Jedi Kid. Tonight over dinner one of my friends, Chris, pointed out this site . It has 56 clones of the original movie. Plus, there's a petition that will put the kid in Episode III (and supposedly George Lucas has agreed to this too if some number of petitions...

I must admit, Apple got one thing right... the iPods. It's an elegant piece of technology, albiet a very simple one. However, apparently now there are other manufacturers who are coming out with similar looking devices. Michael W talks about some of these in his recent post .

Oh, this is sweet!!!  SmartPhone Thoughts talks about this company Dopod who announced the first SmartPhone 2003 device. Some good stuff with this phone. (Unfortunately I can not read Chinese, so the Dopod website makes no sense to me.) SmartPhone Thoughts also talks about some of the cool things...

My friend Brian has an amazing talent for drawing. He has this cartoon he does, Null Pointer . In his most recent “issue” he featured me in there. Sorry Brian about the “battle damage”. I really didn't mean to hit you with that spikey ball...

In prepartion for my move to Redmond next week, I placed an order last week at PC Richard's for a new TV set. I'm not taking the clunky old rear projection TV that we've got here at home since my mom still needs a TV to watch. So I opted to buy a brand new Samsung 50“ DLP . The picture on this thing...

Ok, this post is a bit off topic... (woah, a whole weekend away from the computer!) Today some of some of my friends ([of those who blog] Jon , Mike , Steph , Richie , Brian , Jen ) et. al. threw me a going away/congratulations party for me accepting my job offer at Microsoft . I must say, this was...

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Don Box says "If you don't want funkiness, there's little reason to use XML." I'm funky . I'm valid .

I just clicked thourgh all the way in Stephen Forte's blog ... These photos are hilarious !

Try the etherkiller and other misc. "killer" items .

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Here comes the news that I've been holding out on for about a week and half now... Microsoft is having this Imagine Cup 2003 competition on XML Web Services for college undergraduates and graduates. I entered my Photo Album WS in the regional competition back in March and currently it has moved onto...

Ok, this is just insane and amazing at the same time! Way to go 64-bit SQL Server on Windows 2003 Server!! Oracle and IBM have a tough fight ahead of them if they wish to stay competetive in the databases market...

James writes in his blog about IE and some feature requests... Well a while ago I found this little app, MyIE2 , which is basically a simple little application that uses the IE ActiveX control. It includes tabbing, and other features. It's a nice little utility.

Ok, I'm thinking to myself... "How cool would it be to have one of the 4 line, blue and white LCDs ( CFA634-TMC-KU) for my server?" Granted, they aren't that terribly useful, but they definitely seem somewhat cool. There is some limited usefullness to them, like displaying memory usage, or processor...