Category: Miscellaneous

Tonight I discovered that my site had been hacked... as it turns out I was running an old version of WordPress and there was some injection code fed into a security vulnerability. I've upgraded to the latest version, which has

This has to be one of the weirdest little programs I've ever worked with... Back in 2003 I built a database to track our liquor inventories at work. It's fairly simple in that it has a table of product details

I was really happy to see an email from Microsoft this morning to let me know I've been awarded as an MVP for my 4th consecutive year. 🙂 I've been pretty quiet since a couple of days into my vacation...

After playing around in Visual Studio, and taking my first foray into the VB.NET world, I thought it might be kind of interesting to try and see just how portable .NET code really is. So I decided to port the

Okay, it's a simple application. Really simple. I wrote this as an easy project to break into VB.NET. I'm actually feeling pretty good about it though, as it took me a couple of hours to code a working game, never

I tried to set up my laptop today to use the speech recognition native in Microsoft Windows.  I found it pretty hard to actually get it to recognize my voice the first time around.  It doesn't actually feel quite as

This morning I got a nice email from Microsoft to let me know that I was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for my third year.  I'm pretty flattered to be awarded again, and already planning the trip to the MVP

In our Microsoft migration a couple of months ago, we moved from Novell's Groupwise for email to Microsoft Exchange 2003, using Outlook 2007 as a client. I knew things would be different, but some things just make me shake my