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The lottery has sold out to the spammers.

The other day I was complaining about the spam e-mails generated by my visiting what I though were reputable e-commerce sites. I guess California really is broke since they’ve also sold their soul to the spammers. Continue reading

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Microsoft Certifications

As you may know, I’ve been doing .NET programming since 2002. In all that time, I’ve never bothered to get one of those fancy Microsoft Certifications, such as a MCSD. There’s no real reason for it other than that I’ve never needed one… Until now.

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New site

I installed the WordPress application onto my website a few weeks ago. Since then, I’ve been playing with it a bit to see how things work in the WordPress world.

I have a long way to go in this arena, but I think I’m confident enough to bite the bullet and convert my entire site to a WordPress site.

Let me know if you encounter any problems!

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Cabela’s Campmor and Spammers

The other day, I visited the Cabelas web site to shop for camping stuff. I also visited the Campmor website to compare products and prices.

As soon as I was finished comparing products and prices (Campmor was much lower in price for the same products), I noticed that all the banner ads on other sites were Continue reading

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Rookie Mistake: custom tool error failed to generate code

(The solution to my problem is detailed below)

The project that I’ve spend most of the last eighteen months working on uses Microsoft’s Windows Communications Framework (WCF) to move massive amounts of data around. This is a relatively new technology and it seems that most people aren’t using it to the same extent that our project requires. Continue reading

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My First WordPress Post

I’ve finally decided to do something new: I installed the WordPress application on my website. This was actually pretty easy to do.

This site is hosted by GoDaddy, with whom I’ve had some head-banging good times (see this).

But this time, I simply clicked a few buttons, waited a short while, and voila! Here we are.

I plan on using this as a way to drop some quick-n-dirty thoughts as they come up.

We’ll see how this goes.

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