Sunday, June 30, 2002
thecave.com is now running ASP.NET. This enables me to enhancement this weblog site beginning with the blog comment feature. You can now post your own comments for the world to see to any weblog entries on this site. Simply click the word "comments" below the entry to view and post comments.
Let me know what you think of this new feature. If it well received I will add more features to it such as e-mail notifications and such.
Friday, June 28, 2002
What can I say...Datalust knows how to throw a party.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 28 11:59 PM | comments (6)Kirbyland.net, WASTEDBoarding.com, and WCAV Radio are back online. The DSL work required a reset of my modem, but since I have been away for a couple of days I could not reset it sooner. Still not bad. This was the first major outage in over a year.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 28 02:06 PM | comments (0)Thursday, June 27, 2002
Melanie and I just returned from the hospital. It appears I have torn some muscle in my leg. The doctor was nice enough to give me a cane to use around the apartment and strict orders to say off my leg for at least two days. Hmmmm I'll still need to go out to eat.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 27 04:43 PM | comments (4)It appears kirbyland.net, WASTEDBoarding.com, and WCAV Radio are down at the moment. My DSL provider is doing emergency repair work this week, which is probably the cause of the outage. I'll post another announcement once everything is up and running again.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 27 10:39 AM | comments (0)Believe it or not I finished the 5K run [officially 3.5 miles] through Central Park. I am excited that I did it. And I finished in 35 minutes!
There were tons of other participates in the run, which made it hard at times. I had to zig-zag through crowds of people throughout the run. My friend Dave and I ran together, which was nice. And he helped motivate me in the last quarter mile when I would have preferred walking.
In the end, I am glad I did the run. Of course my leg injury seems to have gotten worse as a result and I am having trouble walking today. And walking is a very common practice for most New Yorkers so it totally sucks. But I'm still glad I did it.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
I had a brief chance to check out Merant's PVCS Version Manager - the web version of their Version Control Software. I was impressed by the offering but I still prefer CVS with TortoiseCVS.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 26 04:45 PM | comments (0)I may have helped in keeping this fire going but I don't really remember.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 26 04:25 PM | comments (4)Warchalking is "collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking." Makes me want to walk about the city to see if this London craze has caught on in New York.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 26 04:07 PM | comments (0)Tonight I run my first 5K run through Central Park. I am running in the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge New York Race #3. I was really looking forward to tonight's run but after hurting my leg a week ago I don't know if I am as excited. With my luck I will finish the run with a good time but end up in the doctor's office tomorrow morning for yet more X-rays. It figures it is the same leg I hurt earlier in the year snowboarding. Maybe I am getting too old for this sort of stuff. Nah...
posted by Kirby Turner | June 26 09:09 AM | comments (0)Monday, June 24, 2002
It pretty much common knowledge that Americans are overworked. And this is specially true in the IT community. This has been bothering me a lot lately as things other than work are becoming top priorities in my life. [Sidenote: For those wondering, those other things include Melanie and snowboarding.]
Here is how I see it. I get paid for 40 hours a week of work yet I typically work an average of 10 additional hours each week including holiday weeks. So my employer gets an additional 10 hours of work per week out of my for free. I get 4 weeks of vacation each year, a very nice perk from my employer, so this means I typically work 48 weeks out of the year. With that extra 10 hours a week, that means my employer is getting 480 hours of free labor out of me per year. 480 hours is roughly 3 work months. 3 months of free labor each year. I can't believe I am letting this happen.
And to think there was a time I worked even more hours.
I forgot to mention, those taking the test will also need to know how to work with a thread's principal object. In a nutshell, this exam asks a number of low level questions not typically found on many other Microsoft exams.
posted by Kirby Turner | June 24 06:07 PM | comments (0)I just completed the latest Microsoft C# Beta Exam: 71-320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with C#. This exam is much harder than the previous one I took, which I did pass. Unlike the previous exam, this one focuses on server-side work with Web services, server components, and Windows services.
Those planning to take this test should know about Web setup projects, strongly typed dataset, implementing and debugging Windows services, COM+, transactional Web services, .NET remoting, remote component deployment, publisher policies, and lots of ADO.NET with SQL Server. The questions that surprised me the most were ones related to strongly typed dataset. These questions asked specific questions about the XML Schema for the dataset and how to manipulate the schema, apply constraints, and setting relationships.
Overall, I am sure I failed this test. And it has made me realize how little I know about the .NET Framework specifically in the area of remoting. Time for me to crack open more books and write more advanced applications and services with .NET and C#.
Sunday, June 23, 2002
I know many have been wondering who is the best girlfriend in the world. Well I am here to tell you that the best girlfriend in the world is Melanie Anne Davis. There is no other that is as great as she is. Of course this is my opinion and you are welcome to disagree. But you will be wrong if you disagree because Melanie is the best hands down!
posted by Kirby Turner | June 23 02:22 PM | comments (7)Monday, January 01, 0001 posted by | January 1 12:00 AM | comments (0)
