William J. Steele's WebLog

I just received my Solar T62 Turbine Engine. ;-) Now... I just wish I had time to go play with it. In case you didn't see my earlier post... I purchased a BD-5 Mini Jet sans engine. The BD5 is the same plane that James Bond flew in the opening scene of...

Wow... I just got of the phone with a Konica Minolta Service Technician. On Friday of last week, I ordered a Remanufactured Magicolor 2400W printer for $229 from TigerDirect . It arrived on Wednesday and I set it up Yesterday. To no suprise, it exhibited...

Wow... I wanted to thank everybody who attended Today's webcast... it was great. As promised, here are the materials I used. Code Samples Link to WAST Tool Thanks for watching... and don't forget to signup for next week's session. ASP.NET...

Well, Yesterday was another successful webcast in my ASP.NET Soup to Nuts webcast series. It was the second one of the series, which looks like it's going to wind up being a total of 26 webcasts. All around ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer Express...

I wanted to thank everybody for attending. Click here for the demo files for that session. Bill

Well... This is going to be one busy week for me! Today at Noon Eastern, I'm doing a web cast for beginning web developers titled " ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: HTML Basics " where I'll discuss the fundementals of HTML. It's going to be a great kick off to my...

Well... It's Saturday night and I'm still working on the content for our next series... the " Best of Launch " events. We've filtered out all the fluff and we are just going to focus on the "real deal" with this content. You're going to love it... if...

Wow... It simply amazes me... Gasoline is now down to $2.33 in Harrison, Ohio. Who would ever think that we'd be saying that the prices are low at $2.33??? The news sites are reporting a $.25 drop this week... what's it down to in your area? Bill

Wow...what a week. I just got back from Dallas this week. Had a great team meeting and got to finally meet my new manager, Melanie. My team has been going through a bunch of changes, but it finally looks like we're done. :-) I have a new manager... the...

Well... they're finally posted. For all those of you eagerly waiting... http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032284452%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d...

I had a great time this week in Louisville, Cincinnati and over at UC. I've had more e-mails from you guys this week than I have ever had. Some great conversations (about Atlas mostly.) In addition, I've been invited to the NBAA ( National Business...

After a fantastic event in Lousiville Today, I got home to see a nice package on my workbench. It was my Garmin 396 GPS ... the mac daddy of all GPSs... with XM Weather. In addition to it, I also received a nice WMA player... the iRiver H10 . Sweet.....

Well, Today is Louisville and Tomorrow is Cincinnati. If you are in Louisville Today, stop by the movie theater over on Towne Center Dr. Starting at 1:00pm, I'll be talking all about ASP.NET 2.0. I have 3 sessions... the first one being on ASP.NET...

Well... I'm getting ready to do another Mobile Security webcast. You can sign up for hit right here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032279925...

In Today's news , NASA finally announced their plans for getting back to Luna Firma. However, I was shocked at the price... now... hold your pinky finger against the side of your mouth with your thumb down... like Dr. Evil does and repeat after me......

Well... Today was my first day at the PDC out here in LA... and wouldn't you know it, we lost power out here too! Go figure. Today is actually a preconference day... the actual sessions start Tomorrow. Anyway, I've already seen a bunch of folks I know...

This last week was very humbling. I spent it flying supplies to badly needed areas hit hard by Katrina. I flew a total of about 45 flights and delivered over 17,500 MREs, bottles of water and other supplies. I'm just amazed at all the damage. Being from...

Ok, Folks... I'm back at full speed! Here's my schedule for the week. Monday, 2:00PM EST - Webcast: Implementing Security for Mobile Device Solutions Tuesday: 1:00PM EST - Live Event: East Lansing (Okemos), Michigan Wednesday: All Day - Personal...

Well... here it is, the first official drawing of my Flying Car design. What do you think? Bill

Well, made it home from Oshkosh lastnight. That was one heck of a trip! However, a thought keeps bouncing back and fourth in my mind... A Flying Car. Now, don't think I'm crazy until you hear me out. Think about this. The FAA killed the flying car...

I spent most of the morning with Z and the Guys from the Microsoft Flight Sim group... what a fun job they must have. Even took a little flight in a couple Sport Pilot Class planes... real cool. The CT is a nice little plane! Really liked that little...

I must say, Wow. So far, I've seen several very cool planes that I did even know existed... and to top off the entire day, SpaceShipOne carried by The White Night ( http://www.scaled.com ) landed Today. Here's a video of them doing a cool flyby - http...

Well, this week I am on Vacation. And I'm spending it with my Daughter at the EAA AirVenture Convention/Air Show in hot Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I haven't found very good connectivity, yet, so I'm GPRSing it over my i-Mate SP3i phone. Good thing T-Mobile works...

That's a great question that a bunch of people are asking. Well, the answer is simple. I cover Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tenessee, and there are going to be 7 events around the Ohio area this October alone. They're simply not showing up on the calendar...

Today, at 9AM PST, I will be doing a webcast on Migrating from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. This session only has a couple slides and lots of demos... so check it out. I'll be covering a lot of the "stuff" that has changed or is new for us developer types...