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I'm a member of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. One of the cool benefits of being a member is the membership flight in a vintage aircraft. This weekend I went on a 1/2 hour flight on a Beech E18S Expeditor. I really enjoyed the intimate nature of this small transport plane. I listened as pilots worked their way through the checklist and watched them hand-pump the fuel into the engines for startup. I am trying to volunteer in the museum archives, but lately it seems my wife is volunteering ......
After months of my cheap Abacus SPOT watch constantly resetting, I found this on the internet: http://forum.spotstop.com/s... I'll reproduce the post here (thanks a million, Kas) in case the page disappears: “If your watch re-sets when you shake it try this:1. Open your watch by removing the 4 screws on the back. Then geta flat object to take off the back cover.2. Check to see if there is a space between the battery and the battery holder.3. If there is fold up a piece of tape ......
Rob pointed me to this great deal at TigerDirect.ca for a Abacus SPOT watch for $30. I wouldn't spend $150 for one of these things, but at $30, I couldn't resist. I've been able to play with it for just over a day, and I must say, it is really cool. I would love to be able to push my own content and code to it, but no SDK as of yet. When I was waiting for it to charge, I thought I would read the Reference Guide. I came across this: “Regardless of where you travel in North America or Canada, ......
The company I work for is creating a corporate video to advertise at a trade show. It's about this BizTalk-based project that I've been going on about lately. The reason that they are making this video is because it, as anyone who as ever made a workflow product can verify, is not very demonstrable. They asked me if I would be willing to be taped, as they needed some sound bites (from a propeller head, I guess) to put in this video. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this, but I have always ......
Well, it's really official now, I'm going to presenting at ObjectSharp's Architect's Breakfast in December. I've been working on a project involving BizTalk 2004, SharePoint, and InfoPath for some time now. We hired a couple guys from ObjectSharp (Dave, Rob and Matt) to shore up some resource shortfalls. I guess Dave liked what he saw as he asked me to be a big part of this breakfast. My part of the presentation is talking about the software we used, and the things we learned along the way. This ......
If you are developing on Windows Server 2003, remote access to the console, like in Windows XP Pro, is handy. By default, you get a new session, but if you want to finish something you were working on at work from home later in the evening, connecting to the console is the only way:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=278845
I'm a big fan of Halo, and being Canadian, I should point you to the explanation of the differences in Halo 2: Canadian Edition (thanks Bruce). Seriously though, I'm really anticipating the release of Halo 2. I'm not sure why--I don't even own an XBox. I'm not going to buy one for a single game, although I think Microsoft is hoping a lot of people will. I better get to some user group meetings in the hopes of wining one. BTW, if you live in the Toronto area, don't go to the Toronto Visual Basic User ......
I've been lurking around in the blog community for far too long. A big kudos to Jeff for setting up this blog to get me going. I am the architect in a small software group. I'm currently working on a couple projects, one of which uses BizTalk 2004, SharePoint Services, InfoPath, and, of course, .NET (mainly in C#). I would have to say that it was BizTalk 2004 that drove me to this point in my life. While I was learning enough of BizTalk to figure out if it was a good move to base our next product ......