Monthly Archives: July 2004

IRR Callups – “This is news?”

Community Cheerleading

That’s what I thought too when I first saw the headline earlier this week on CNN that the IRR’s were being called up and it was the first time since Desert Storm. I thought that’s what Steve Smith was and he got called up in April. So I decided I must just be confused, but Steve confirms that they are talking about the exact same class of reservists that he fell into.

I had a nice surprise the other day when I was automatically signed me into i.m. by opening up a vpn connection. I got pinged by Steve who was on leave for a few days, so I got to chat with him for a while. Ever the geek, he told me he had just finished downloading Whidbey Beta1. 🙂

He’s back at Ft. Bliss now and due to go to Kuwait any day now and then Iraq shortly after that. Think good thoughts…

lost pocket pc = new pocket pc phone?

Just Rambling

I give up. I really truly lost my pocket pc. I think I left it in my room in the hotel in Montreal last week. I didn’t realize that I was actually that attached to it. It had my name & address & phone # on the back and can’t be much use to anyone without the perpherials (battery charger, etc). Maybe it will show up in the mail someday.

I think it’s replacement will have to be a pocketpc phone though.

Update: Dec. 15, 2005! It’s back after 18 months! Check out this new post.

First time letting a designer muck with my asp.net pages

dotNET

There is a super duper young guy at one of my client’s who is a very talented graphic artist with plenty of java website experience – you now… one of those Mac users :-). He was tasked with adding a little more flare to some of the internal websites I have done for his company. I was a little nervous about how this would affect my websites. I sent him the html for the pages he was to work on and he sent me html pages back. All I had to do was copy and paste the key segments from the html he returned back into my original pages and upload the revised aspx along with some stylesheets and a separate images folder and voila – new look, same old functionality. That was my first experience partnering with someone on the UI portion of asp.net sites. So I’m glad it worked out well. Oh, I had warned him not to touch the <asp: > controls or I would chop off his head, so that seemed to pay off. (And I believe his ego has recovered from the threat…)