Monthly Archives: August 2004

Drawing hotspots on U.S. map

Just Rambling

It was a drag to have to draw a hot spot and create a hyperlink on each and every state. But now it’s done. My sister is very happy, as her website now has an interactive map to find stores that sell her product. There are over 750 stores, most in the u.s. so this makes it a little easier! Not bad for a 2 1/2 year old company. Yeah, Jill.

Here’s the website: www.katiesbumpers.com, which is mostly done in Frontpage with some asp and also some web service interaction with her stores database and an asp.net application that lives elsewhere.

Toshiba M200 notes

Tablet

Since the power was out (again! uggh) for a few hours this morning, I used the time to snuggle up to my Toshiba M200 and see if we couldn’t become better friends. Poor Toshiba, still having to live in the shadow of the Acer. I discovered a lot of interesting features (lots of really handy utilities) that I was unaware of. And I finally figured out what that wired “cross-hair” button was for. Oops – my app finished compiling. Later.

MSDN Article on Security with WSE 2.0

Tools

Although I have finally finished my deck for WSE 2 Security for Dummies, I am very happy to see this new article on WSE2 Security by Don Smith on MSDN online. I have really gained a lot be reading (or viewing) many different peoples explanations on this topic so that I was able to get my own grasp of it. Thanks to Rebecca Dias for pointing it out.

Though I will list and link more carefully, some of the great resources I have been using are Michele Leroux Bustamante’s Code Magazine article, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Microsoft Press book on Understanding Web Services Specs and WSE, TechEd presentation by Benjamin Mitchell, MSDN TV video by Benjamin and John Bristowe, WSE 2.0 Security hands on lab by Aaron Skonnard and the truly fantastic API documentation for WSE 2.0.

What email server does this?

Just Rambling

I sent out an email to my vtdotnet list this morning – about 250 people.

I have received “back” a copy of the email about 30 times — from me and to me — with this message on the bottom

This email may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). If this email contains confidential and/or privileged health or student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA or HIPAA, federal regulations require that you destroy this email without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone.

And they are still coming. All I can think of is that one of the email addresses on my lists is doing this  -but why so many? Or is it a virus somewhere? Anyone know?

Does anyone know an

Tech Support to our families

Just Rambling

You *all* know what this is about. Having to answer any computer related question no matter how far it is from what we really do for a living. “My computer is slowing down, should I reformat the hard drive?”, “popups popups everywhere!”, “I just deleted *all* of the pictures from your sister’s wedding. What do I do?”

One solution I had thought of was to partner with another geek and trade family tech support – so when your father calls and he’s mad at his computer, you won’t take it personally.

Leon Bambrick (SecretGeek) and Scott Hanselman have a much better, pro-active idea. Which is to take ownership of your families backup, virus protection etc. plans – really by just reminding them periodically. Sounds easy enough. Check it out.