From a short walk today
Maples by our mailbox.
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Looking down the road towards the valley.
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Daisy (left) and Tasha (right).
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A surprising discovery. This is a wasp hive that is about 1 1/2 feet tall. Luckily, nothing was buzzing around it so I could go up and take a picture!
Vegas used to be known for it’s $5 dinner buffets and other bargains that made it a fun and very inexpensive vacation. The few times I’ve been there (for conferences only as it’s not really my dream vacation spot), I’ve been astonished at how pricey everything was – especially the Vegas shows, which I just can’t bring myself to buy $100+ tickets for. Markus Egger had a wake-up call when trying to plan a recent weekend in Vegas and says “who wants to stay at the Venetian when gong to Venice is cheaper?” Hear! Hear!
This is one of the most frequently asked questions on the newsgroups.
Since Verisign and Thawte do not speak “message-based security”, people are always confused about buying SSL Certificates for doing WSE or WCF.
It’s not just the vendors. Sometimes the people responsible for your networks are also hard to convince since message-based security just does not make sense in their world. They may not know which one is right either.
What have you had success with? What actual certificates (literally the name that the vendor applies to the cert) have you purchased from which vendors? There’s a myriad of choices, but it’s never easy to pick.
I was so I spent some time trying to get everything sorted back out again. Here’s my take on it…
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I recently attended a meeting in Burlington aimed at small businesses to give them some ideas about what they can be leveraging on the web…. [read more]
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I just accidentally wrote a line of code that looked like this:
private boolean MyMethod(byval x as someobject)
Yes I was going for VB, but I’ve been doing a bunch of C# coding lately. At least I didn’t hit the semi colon, too! 🙂
The funny part is I although C# doesn’t come very naturally to me, there are definitely some syntax things I love. Though I still have a really hard time getting my brain to grok code like Kate writes (though that’s pure C++…)
It was announced a few days ago that Bulgaria and Romania will become part of the European Union on Jan 1
So I’m sure there will be a big excitement when we arrive in Bulgaria next weekend.
Martin (who lives in Sofia) has links to more details.
By attending DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria Oct 9-10, you will be entered in the drawing.
Pretty amazing!
Google Toolbar has a new feature called notifications.
It took me a while this morning to realize that this was the service that was preventing me from starting up a 16-bit application (FoxPro 2.6).
I had turned off all types of stuff, but when I killed the process for the GoogleNotifications in my task manager, voila, the program opened up.
Just a word to the wise….
I wasn’t there to witness it but I have heard from DCC Susan Wisowaty that there were 110 people at the MSDN event in Burlington yesterday. Another attendee told me she had heard it was 117. This is pretty phenomenal for a city that got axed from the schedule due to poor attendance. This is pretty phenomenal for city with a population of 50,000. This would be a good number for an event in NYC or Boston!
So, for anyone who thinks that Vermont has nothing but farmers, hippies and ski bums as it’s population, think again!