FrazzledDad

I just got back from watching Serenity . Holy s#|t.  George Lucas weaps in shame and wishes he had one eighth the writing skills Joss Whedon...

My new Netgear firewall/router/dsl modem was not cooperating with FTP sessions at all.  I couldn’t reliably publish pages for our user group...

On occasion one makes a really, really dumbass mistake.  My previous post on NHibernate and .NET 2.0 Nullables was just such a beast.  Enca...

If you haven’t heard, the folks pushing Serenity (the movie follow on to the incredible series Firefly ) opened early screenings to bloggers...

July, August, and September were stuffed with me reading scads of technical books.  Among the titles I blasted through were, in no particula...

The Boston Globe has posted a list of their top 50 science fiction TV shows. The list's somewhat psychotic, though. The Avengers , Bat...

Talk about a timely find: Our Developers Group’s last meeting had Martin Shoemaker talking about Architecture Patterns in C#.  Today I fina...

Ben Carey’s written a terrific post inspired from the “Advances in Agile” session he had at PDC.   Ben gives some great insight on how to d...

Several years ago a good friend took me out to Full Kee restaurant at Baileys Crossroads in Alexandria, VA.  We had an amazing meal there, p...

I’m running an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe motherboard in the system I built at home.  I installed XP Pro a couple weeks ago after having run Win2K f...

Yesterday I was whining about my crappy Linksys router dying.  I spent an hour or so trying to get sessions surviving long enough to get a ...

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I’ve had a Linksys DSL firewall router (BESFX41 is the model, and no, I won’t link to the piece of junk) for three years now and I’ve had to...

I’ve been asked to write occasional posts for James Avery’s Visual Studio Hacks website .  The first article , on Morrison Schwartz’s SharpT...

First off, if you’re not familiar with Penzey’s Spices do yourself a big favor and head over there for a looksee.  I’ve been using spices, ...

Roy Osherove has a very interesting post on his frustration with folks who want to spend too much time blathering away about minutia instea...

UPDATE: I screwed up on this post.  See a correction here . NHibernate is an object persistence system, enabling you to bypass oodles of da...

or maybe watching paint dry. I’m putting Longhorn on a Virtual PC in order to try and nab the Consolas font out of it.  The install’s been r...

Charlie Poole, the current driving force behind nUnit, now has a blog . This is great stuff for anyone interested in any form of testing. ...

Take a look at this online memorial to the people who died on 9/11/2001. Regardless of your feelings about the war, watch this and keep in...