Category: Miscellaneous

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

And so, sadly, Wednesday dawned as the last day of the 2009 summit. Breakfast was a huge buffet at the WTCC: This is where we found Richard again, looking a little worse for wear. Reminds me of the first morning

Again, another early rise to breakfast, and off to the bus again. Fortunately the session started late due to technical difficulties as the bus got a bit snarled in traffic! That morning we actually saw something very, very cool which

It always irks me when I look back and realize that I didn't take many pictures… Monday dawned way too early. I made it down for breakfast, and then off on the 20 minute bus ride to the Microsoft Conference

Okay, finally I'm going to put up some pictures here. I'll break them up a bit so that the load time isn't too long. First off, merely for my interest, here's the view from the hotel room: Now, of more