I'm sure all of us are hard working, very dedicated employees who sometimes throw ourselves too deeply into our work. We get the in-the-zone and we are off on the trail of the solution to the problem. Stepping away from the screen when your in hot pursuit can be very difficult. But then there are times when it didn't work. No matter how hard you tried the odds were stacked against you. You pleaded to the project manager but conditions were set that weren't in anyone's control and you or your team...

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Thanks to David Cumps I added a google search to my blog. It did take a little tweeking though :) Be sure to change “pmenefee“ to your blog directory. <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> function blogSearch(event, oInput) { var keyCode = (event) ? event.keyCode : keyStroke.which; if (keyCode == 13) { top.location = 'http://www.google.com/sear... + oInput.value + '+inurl%3Apmenefee+%3Ageeks... return false; } return true; } function blogSearch2(oInputId) { <BR>var...

What a great way to kill some time.... C# image 2 Ascii - Thanks Daniel! You can get the source here

In case you were curious if the SP4 would or did fix that subtle bug that had been bothering you at the most inopportune times here is the definitive list of bugs fixed by SP4. http://support.microsoft.co

Some days it's hard to focus, excpecally when the devistation in Sumatra this week make the Iraq war look like a picnic. So here's a list of charities you can use to help and for those who want to know what happened here's the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) page for this quake