Site Archives for May 2005


my first fitness 'Boot Camp' ends, and another begins...

Posted on May 27th

Back at the start of April, I signed up for a group fitness class at the pro club, the "Boot Camp" ... a twice-weekly (for two months) running-focused outdoor workout that was supposedly modeled after real military training. Well, it wasn't anything like what I remembered from going through basic […]

Doing interesting things with XSL

Posted on May 6th

I've been messing around with using XSL to display RSS on MSDN, as a simpler alternative to a custom ASP.NET control, and while it works perfectly in the core case (display all the items in a feed in a format), there are two additional requirements that were very easy to handle in a .NET class, but […]

IE 7 will have a new User Agent string, of course, so it might be worth checking your code...

Posted on May 4th

This should only be an issue if you've written code that checks for version=6, instead of version =>6, but that happens so you might want read the following blog entry about this new version.

Alienware adds another reason to buy their PCs... Star Wars themed PCs

Posted on May 1st

If I ever get an Alienware machine, I suspect it would be their Media Center machine, but the preview images of these new Star Wars machines are quite tempting.    I wish they had a single PC though, not light/dark versions, I love the images they've used for both... it would be cool to h […]