Contagious Curiosity

While preparing curriculum for the upcoming DigiGirlz technology summer camp to be held at Microsoft's office in Irvine, CA on Aug 18/19, I stumbled across this 'human PopFly' video and just couldn't stop laughing.  I am such a geek, but not a human...

| View | Upload your own From my talk delivered at SoCalCodeCamp in San Diego today - enjoy!  Please also see my link page on DM resources (right side of blog) BI2008newFeatures

A Fun geek movie to be sure - of course, I especially loved the Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, otherwise known as Eve.  BTW...be sure to check out the movie's companion website, it's beautifully designed and a bunch of smiles as well.  ...

Isn't the cover pretty?  I have no idea what the tool that was selected to be featured on the cover actually is - do any of you?  Anyway the important thing is that you CAN pre-order the book already from Amazon.  Yes, the co-authors are...

Life just offers up too many pleasant distractions, doesn't it?  Here's a cool blog entry about using VPL to create fractal images.  I haven't spent much time playing with this - yet.  But I soon will.   Distributed Agents and Fractals...

Here's something fun - my favorite puzzle in the world (little known fact about me - I won the Fifteen Puzzle contest for my entire school when I was twelve years old! It was actually quite funny, there were training sessions conducted by the teachers...

I am interested in getting feedback from any of you readers (developers) out there who may have started playing with the IE8 beta - anyone? how's it going? What do you like? What don't you like? What's New in Internet Explorer 8

Tune in to tomorrow's (June 18) geekSpeak w/MVP WF/WCF/BizTalk expert and all-around brainiac Jon Flanders. Oh btw, I happen to think he's one of the best technical instructors I've ever had the pleasure of hearing teach as well. I am looking forward...

If you missed the live event in Seattle or via the Live Meeting, catch the recordings here. Veni, Vidi, Velcro... : SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter - Live Meeting Recordings

All true - especially numbers 9, 18 and 21 :) 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You - Geek Girfriend Tips - Geek Girl Humour

  We are doing more and more evangelism in Second Life (yes, I'll be there too soon!)  Check out this new type of event.  Here's more information from Dave's blog: In partnership with the Second Life .NET Developers User Group along with...

New SharePoint Developer website - check it out! Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint. Also, get the VS 2008 WSS 3.0 templates from here

Thanks to the LA .NET Developer's user group for inviting me to speak on my favorite topic. Here are the slides from tonight's presentation. | View | Upload your own Also you can search on this blog, using the 'BI' tag for more information. link to BI...

I'll be speaking at the SoCalDotNet Developer's User Group this Wednesday, June 4 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. I'll be speaking on 'Why BI for .NET Developers?' and doing my (usual) demorama. I'll be covered SQL Server 2208 SSAS mostly and also showing the Data...

While visiting the Getty Museum yesterday, I really enjoyed this Rembrandt. Interesting to read about the history associated with the painting as well. As with so many paintings, no reproduction really shows the painting well. Rembrandt is, of course...