Goodbye old friend
Compusa is closing. This really doesn’t come as a surprise to me since over the past few years they have pretty much stopped being a computer store and tried to be a Best Buy. I’ve been whining for years about the fact that there is more room for the tvs and dvds then there was [...]
Dad?
At work Wednesday Patrick told me that he had found a picture of my Dad on the internet.
I’m still kinda speechless. The picture is from 1979.
My new goal
I’ve decided that I want to become a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Web Developer. Why? Just for the fun of it. I’ve been having fun with my first foray into the .net jungle and figured I should jump in with both feet.
Visual Studio 2008
Today Visual Studio 2008 was released. I am now downloading iso for all of them. I am very excited about continuing my .net education. Right now I have completed my very first .net web app. A simple picture uploader that generates a thumbnail and saves the pic in the appropriate folder. Soon I will convert [...]
The Nerd Handbook
The Nerd Handbook
Anybody who knows me needs to read this article. Here is an excerpt :
Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer. It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why.
First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or [...]