Monthly Archives: July 2006

July INETA Pennsylvania User Group “Tour”

Presentations

It’s happened again. Not one, but three user groups in one trip!

Here’s the schedule of my July INETA user group speaking tour:

Tuesday, July 18th: Central Penn .NET, Harrisburg PA, “Developing Ink Applications with the Tablet PC SDK”

Wednesday, July 19th: Lehigh Valley.NET, Bethlehem PA, “Customized Debugging in Visual Studio 2005”

Thursday, July 20th: Dot Net Valley, Wilkes Barre PA, “Five Scary Things about .NET (That Don’t Have To Be)”

The icing on the cake is that after the Thursday night talk, I will drive to north and visit my parents for a few days. 🙂

 

Roman Rehak – Newest MVP in Vermont!

Community Cheerleading

Hip hip hooray! Roman Rehak has been awarded an MVP for SQL Server. Roman co-leads the Vermont SQL Server User group (with Laura Blood) and has been track chair for SQL PASS and the DevTeach SQL Track for a number of years.

As far as I know, there are now four six MVPs in Vermont. Zoe Hart has also been one for a while and she works at the same company as Roman in Burlington. Anne Stanton is on the NH/VT border and runs a small business server group and is a total CRM guru. Also, Kate Chase (a renowned author and Office MVP) and Steve Hebert who is an I.E. MVP live in Vermont.

[Roman was smart enough to find a search by state feature and there are 6, count ’em, six, MVPs in our little state. Vermont always has the “highest per capita” rankings because of our small population of app. 625,000, so I wonder if 1:100,000 is it? 🙂 ]

INETA NORAM’s New Website is just around the corner

Community Cheerleading

It’s been a long time coming and through a variety of teams, proposals from outside companies, budgets, and plans -with one roadblock after another preventing it from coming to fruition over the past few years, but INETA NORAM (North America) is finally getting a new website and, according to the current site , is going to be launched soon.

Congrats and muchos gracias to all of the volunteers who have worked hard on this.

NH/VT Upper Valley IT Professionals meeting: July 18th

Vermont

NH/VT Upper Valley IT Professionals July Meeting

The next meeting is going to be in the morning!! In fact we are switching to either a morning or lunch time format. So mark your calendars.

When: July 18th Time: 9 – 11:00 am

Where: The Howe Library, Hanover, NH www.thehowe.org

Subject: The Human Disasters: How to prepare for when key personal can’t get to the office. How can technology help, are the systems in place? This includes “Bird Flu”, Accidents/death of key people, and all Disaster things human …

Speaker: Working on it.

RSVP: Please RSVP as this new format requires a bit different logistics. I will also bring a bag of bagels and some cream cheese. Can someone volunteer to bring some drinks? and we have a totally new DVDs from Microsoft including

              The Technology Assessment Toolkit and      The SBS Community DVD

I also have some great door prizes from my travels to WWPC and Tech Ed 🙂

Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts: 7/20 meeting (Java & Python)

Vermont

Montpelier Meeting at Bear Code

Andrew will present using the Java programming language and Josh Sled will present using the Python programming language. Both presentations will focus on their application to the unix environment.

Location

Bear Code
85 Granite Shed Lane, Unit 1
Montpelier, Vermont 05602

More info and directions

A new form of comment spam

Blogging

I’ve been getting a new type of comment spam on my other blog. The spam is a statement that is very coherent and totally relevant to the post, but then at the end has a link to a page that is filled with a huge list of links to other pages on the site – all for the sake of trackbacks. My guess is that they are copying text from other blogposts, then googling for related blog posts then pasting the other blog’s text along with their own link into the comments.