Sorry for the lack of posts or e-mail replies the past couple of weeks. I was off sick, and am now trying catch up with thousands of e-mails and lots of overdue tasks. Fun stuff. Thanks for the concern, and I'll be back to normal operating speed and mode shortly (I hope).
Tax day is fast approaching, and I've been working (on and off) on my tax forms. The IRS lets you download just about every form you could need from a forms page - pick the form you want and save the PDF, simple. The forms are not just printable forms, they really are PDF forms, in that you can...
My boys and I spent this evening playing with my newest toy. The H-Racer is a real hydrogen powered car, a toy that runs on a real hydrogen fuel cell. The car is a kit, and some minor assembly is required - this is actually a really good thing as it helps with learning what the components are and...
A week or so ago I did something foolish, I installed Vista on my primary laptop. Ok, so foolish may be a bit strong, after all, I did take precautions. Rather than upgrade my existing machine, I bought a new hard drive and installed Vista on that (so that my old configuration remained intact, just...
Microsoft has announced that it will not be releasing any new versions of Visual FoxPro, although it will continue to support the technology for another 8 years or so. This is no surprise to anyone, I'm actually amazed that Microsoft continued to maintain FoxPro for as long as they did. I may be...
I get e-mails from recruiters pretty regularly, and I generally pay no attention to them (I like what I do and am not planning a job change any time soon). But this morning I received an e-mail from a Microsoft recruiter that caught my attention because the detailed message explained that they were...
I just needed to phone someone in Hong Kong, and could not remember the time difference. So, I typed "time in hong kong" in the Firefox Google search box (thinking I'd find a world time site somewhere), and Google reported "Current local time: 10:23 AM on Tuesday, March 13" as the first answer. Too...
I just arrived in São Paulo, Brazil. For a while it looked like I'd not make it here. I left Detroit early this morning (a 6:00am flight), flying to Atlanta to catch a connection for the 10 hour or so flight down to São Paulo. The flight left Detroit over an hour late because of...
If you need to quickly edit or browse XML files, even big complex ones, then you may want to download the freebie Microsoft XML Notepad 2007 . It's essentially a tree-view editor/browser, with nice search, move/nudge, drag and drop, and more. It also supports search and replace using regular...
Ok, the page and content do cause raised eyebrows, but the fact that someone over at Figleaf took the time to create that Flash animation is mildly disconcerting, despite the sentiment. ;-)