June 2006 - Posts

IT Screen Goddesses Calendar! Okaaay!?
29 June 06 02:16 PM | davidlem | 12 Comments   

I just got an email about this calendar… http://www.itgoddess.info/ Hmm, interesting, but I’m not sure I would have gone down this path. To me, having a female who works in IT, lying on her back, covered in rose petals, isn’t exactly Read More...

Cool vintage advertising assets!
29 June 06 01:18 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

From Plan59 , henjoi :) http://www.plan59.com/av/av.htm My favourite: The Stetson Hats Ad I love the accompanying text for the first picture! “It’s just a touch of hepatitis. Would you care to see my boat?” Classique! Read More...

What can I tell about TechEd 2006 from the video?
29 June 06 01:07 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

OK, so Franky sent out a link to the TechEd 2006 Preview Video , and I just had to comment. Now, I have a problem with marketing style vid clips, because they always have ridiculous images portraying absurd stereotypes or random “things” just Read More...

Blogstipation and Therapy!
29 June 06 12:25 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

I’ve realised over the past few days that I’ve had terrible blogstipation since returning from honeymoon. Now, I’m pretty sure it’s got to do with the amount of email I’ve been ingesting over the past week or so, but I really Read More...

DIY Consulting Practice!
28 June 06 11:46 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

Graham (who’s blog makes Lindsay Lohan look like Jabba the Hutt) and I were skying the other day about what it would take to build a successful start-up services consulting practice, aka SSSCP (everything needs an acronym, ENAA). Now, for a while, Read More...

Military Tactics for Software Development!
23 June 06 06:48 PM | davidlem | 5 Comments   

I caught up with Tim for lunch this week, and we got onto the topic (as is inevitable during any sustained interaction with me) of software development projects…and why they seem to go awry more often than not. I was telling him about this awesome Read More...

Blinq and you'll miss it!
23 June 06 04:34 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Nige just pinged everyone in the team about this Sandbox project called Blinq: http://www.asp.net/sandbox/app_blinq.aspx?tabid=62 Unreal! Essentially, it’s a tool for generating web forms against a database schema, with LINQ handling the data work. Read More...

Cattle Class is Watching!
18 June 06 02:21 PM | davidlem | 6 Comments   

I’ve been relaxing at the Renaissance Hotel in Koh Samui for the past two weeks on my honeymoon , so I have not only returned relaxed and recharged, I also have a somewhat swarthy tint akin to my personal hero George H . But on the way back, I observed Read More...