Daily Archives: May 31, 2005

Julie Lerman’s DevLife – a new sub-blog on DevSource

Just Rambling

I am really excited to announce that I am going to be writing some of my blog posts for the DevSource website, which is a Ziff-Davis online publication! Editor, Esther Schindler has done a wonderful job in creating this technical resource targeted to .NET Developers. There are lots of great articles (including the fun .NET Rock Star series :-)), contests where they give away cool stuff like Acer Ferrari laptops or Dell flat panel monitors and forums. When I post a blog over there, I will make note of it over here. The blog should be up any day now.

The purpose of this blog is to give a developer’s perspective to things – some of the pain of being a developer, my thoughts on what’s going on in the community, my take on some buzz, etc.

I even had a new picture taken for it. Big huge thanks to Wintellect‘s Mark Kovalcson, a serious photographer on the side, who brought his big camera and a light to the MS Reston office during Devscovery to snap a few photos. My buddy Sara Faatz even let me borrow some makeup, but it’s laughably light and you probably can’t tell I actually did that. Yes, I put make-up on folks, just for you!!!

As soon as it’s live, I will let you know. I’m looking forward to posting some TechEd blogs there as well.

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Arghh DHL/Airborne

Purely Personal

Rather than drive up my nice, short, paved driveway to drop off some small envelope-sized packages, the DHL guy sticks one of their honker envelopes to the side of my painted mailbox. My green mailbox. The green is paint. Now I have a foot long 1/2 inch high stripe from trying to peel the darned thing off.

Hello? Duh!!!! Yes I called them. I think I need to bill them for all of my wasted time…

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Paddling on Dead Creek

Vermont

Dead Creek is a very special place in Vermont and not far from where I live. It’s hardly dead! It is a wildlife refuge and one of the locations of the Bald Eagle restoration project. Rich and I took the canoe there yesterday and had a lazy beautiful paddle up the creek. It is wide open, with views of the Adirondacks along the west. Lots of birds and yes, we even did see a bald eagle. I have wanted to go there for a long time and know that we will definitely go back. The temperature of the water in Lake CHamplain is still under 50 degrees. We don’t have wet or drysuits so we can’t go out on the lake yet. That water temp will literally kill you in a very short time if you don’t have the proper protection.

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Male Bonding blogging

Blogging

Sometimes when I read blogs (and I’m talking about those from the .NET community) I think that the male bloggers (you know, that 99% of the .NET bloggers) are definitely writing for guys, when in the context of a technical post, they make some joke about their sexual prowress or the hottie quality of a particular woman. I don’t really think a post like that was written for me. I dunno – maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think I’m ultra sensitive. Even if I am highly unlikely to ever be the subject of “who’s the hottest…” 🙂

But it is a bit of a turnoff for me to be lured into a post like that and then suddenly be in the middle of some male bonding ritual. Not a big problem, mind you, because I *am* in the company of men, and I know they are really just being silly more than anything…



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