Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Thunderstorms I love watching and listening to thunderstorms [The .NET Guy] Me too! My wife and I went on vacation about a month ago. We stayed in the upper northwest corner of Michigan (Traverse City area). Early sunday morning a big storm rolled in off the lake. Boy did it pack a punch! Loads of lightning and powerful cracks of thunder. It was great -- I just laid in bed and listened to the falling rain and the roaring thunder. And then the uneasy quiet after the storm moved on... 9:58:26 PM

A New Dad! My daughter Sydney was born today at 2:24AM at a healthy 6lb 11oz.  The whole family is doing fine, but strangely enough, everyone seems a bit tired ;-) Weblog on hold... [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] Congratulations! I'd just like to add that the weblog will probably be the easiest thing to put on hold. You'll also be putting sleep, regular meals and semi-coherent thought on hold for a while too! :) 9:52:03 PM

Bookmarks out of control My bookmarks are totally out of control. I bookmark a few sites a day, just so that I can get to them later (in an unlikely event that I'll actually need to do it). But I just add them to the very long list without trying to arrange in categories (both IE and Mozilla don't have good tools for that) and that doesn't scale. There must be a better way. [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog] Organizing can be difficult. One thing I've been doing for the past few years is using the Yahoo Companion toolbar to maintain a central location for bookmarks. As I've switched jobs, I just install the Yahoo Companion, sign in and all of my bookmarks are there. Every now and then I export the list to a simple text file for backup purposes. I'm not a big fan of storing personal data on remote, out-of-my-control servers, but hey -- it's just bookmarks. :) 9:49:24 PM

Serviced Components Commonality: "I think that blindly going to ServicedComponent is the wrong way to go. I'd argue that most people used COM+ for the wrong reasons. I've seen too many times VB developers putting all their components in COM+ just because they wanted to access them remotely (poor's man remoting, if you ask me), but never actually using any of the actual COM+ services. A complete waste. So going to COM+ is way overkill for most simple projects. Let's face it: your typical intranet application really doesn't need COM+." 9:45:56 PM

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