Last year after purchasing our new home I spent 3 days during Thanksgiving raking and blowing leaves. I vowed then and there that I wouldn't be doing again. Several weeks ago I achieved man hood by purchasing a John Deere Lawn Tractor. As a result, I started investigating lawn sweepers to assist me with removing leaves, pine straw (the worst thing mother nature ever created), sweet gum balls, pine combs along with twigs and small limbs out of my yard. I settled on the Brinly 42inch Lawn Sweeper. Here are the specs: Series No. STS-42 LX Deluxe...

It isn't everyday that you can say you work for #1 but I can.  Actually I have said that for the past 2 years.  Would you like to work for #1 as well? If you are a .Net Developer / Engineer who is passionate, self-motivated, loves being able to set and manage your own goals and you are looking to work for THE best company to work for in the IT industry in the US, we in turn are looking for you! This is the first time I have tried posting job openings on my blog so we'll see how this works.  If...

I'm sitting on a bus right now on interstate I520 in Redmond, Wa after leaving the Microsoft Company Store.  I picked up some shirts for my wife and myself, and I also picked up a Windows Media Center Keyboard.  But the reason I am sitting in the middle of the interstate is the bus we were own got into an accident. Some crazy chic was trying to force her way in front of a charter bus.  What an idiot.  Andy, John, and myself are in front of the bus.  John and I saw everything and filled out a report in...

I've got to catch up on a few blog entries from a few sessions today but I want to take a little extra time to write up a little nicer article on them.  Until then I thought I would throw out a few IE 7 tips that Dave Massey spoke to us about.  Here is the first one up. I've been using IE 7 for a few months and I really like the tab browsing.  But that's not the only reason users are going to like IE 7.  However, I'm a keyboard hot key nut.  One of the features I like...

Latest update from the Asp.Net Technology Summit is geeks are going wild!  In particular Scott Guthrie.  Last night we were at Trader Vic's eating and mixing with the presenters along with the attendees.    Andy Stopford and Scott were chatting about LINQ and Scott couldn't resist pulling out his laptop and doing an adhoc show and tell to show off the new data binding bits with LINQ and Asp.Net.  Conversation is great but a picture is worth a thousand words, and Visual Studio + LINQ is worth a couple of million. Here is a video I took with my phone of Scott, Andy and...

 It is interesting to see what others are saying about the summit and the best way to find out is just read people's blog.  John C Bland is the CEO and founder of Katapult Media.  He is sitting in front of me at the summit and he's been blogging all day.  We spoke during lunch today and he has a lot of experience in PHP and Cold Fusion so it is interesting to see what his take aways are from the perspective.   Check out these two posts from John on his blog. Microsoft folks are cool ScottGu, LINQ, ASP.NET, IIS 7, and...

On Wednesday I left the warm comforts of Hattiesburg, Ms and headed to Redmond, WA for the Asp.Net Microsoft Web Dev Technology Summit.  Upon arrival guess what the weather was?  Rainy.  Guess what today’s weather is?  Rainy.  Guess what tomorrow’s weather is?  Rainy.  Ok, so it is rainy here, you get the idea and needless to say I miss my 90 degree weather and sunshine.  But I am not here to talk about the weather, I’m here to talk about the summit.  Asp.Net Summit Wednesday

Saturday October 28th is the Alabama Code Camp in Montgomery, AL.  Some great speakers are getting lined up and although I had to pay Joe Healy a large amount of money to speak at the event, he finally let me in :) I will be doing two sessions on Smart Clients.  One is an intro to Smart Clients and new features of Visual Studio.  The second one I'm doing is all about the Enterprise Architecture of Smart Clients.   Others are covering Atlas, Mobile 5 applications, ADO.Net 2.0 and lots more.  Should be a great code camp!

After paying my Jeep off last week I had some extra cash to get something I have been wanting to get for a long time and that is a self defense pistol. After looking, thinking, researching, reading, talking to friends and getting everyone's input under the sun, I finally decided on the Ruger .45. While no one person recommended this particular model, the reviews on it were great and it had a lot of safety features I wanted. I picked the gun up at a local store in Hattiesburg called Big Buck Sports. I had visited the store about 5...

I just got of the phone with my wife. She was explaining to me that a person she works with fiance is a nurse at the local hospital and reported there had been 45 cases of the West Nile virus in the past three days here in Hattiesburg, Ms. What is going on!? I just got my new lawn mower and had planned on mowing the yard again this evening but now, I'm not so sure. According to the current numbers, there are only 32 reported cases in Mississippi. Either someone is stoned, can't count, or the bugs down here...