Server Intellect… the best darn hosting company I’ve ever worked with

Feb 2, 2005 2 min.

I’ve mentioned it before, but it is worth saying again. When I decided to build my site up from its static beginnings and add on various asp.net-driven applications, I needed a host that provided SQL Server database access for a reasonable fee and easerve (Server Intellect‘s old name) came highly recommended. Turns out to be the best hosting decision I have ever made. Once I realized the level of support and stability that this host provided, I decided to move my personal blog onto my own installation of .

Added some forums to discuss free sites, congas, etc….

Feb 1, 2005 1 min.

Wanted to get this into a better place for discussion than my blog comments…. new forums here … I should warn you though that I’ve been having a ton of errors with the Forum code of late though. I’ve even turned on full errors (bad, bad, duncan) as part of a desperate attempt to track down an annoying error in AspNetForums.Components.SiteUrls.LocationKey() …

Outlook Web Access team looking for developers…

Jan 31, 2005 1 min.

The Outlook Web Access team is looking for web developers Web-based mail is hot. Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook Web Access… They’re all making headlines and showing off the richness of the web. The Outlook Web Access team is looking for solid ASP.NET developers to help build our next version. We’re looking for people with top-notch development skills, who have worked with C# and ASP.NET in the past and have a solid understanding of HTML, CSS and script.

Another little .Text update…

Jan 27, 2005 1 min.

Thanks to a post by Nick Parker, I found out my blog site was not producing valid RSS… and now it is 🙂

Update on the free stuff…

Jan 26, 2005 1 min.

I few people emailed me to ask if the various free (referral based) offers out there are working for me… well, yes and no. I have 4 out of the 8 referrals required for a free flat screen, 1 out of 11 for the free mini mac and none for the free Personal Video Player… which makes sense actually, I blogged about the first, I’ve never really talked about the mini mac one, but there is a little button link on this page so it gets a little bit of traffic, and I have never before mentioned the video player one… so it isn’t getting any traffic at all.

Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn’t really know that much about it…

Jan 25, 2005 7 min.

When I first came down to the US, I had to pick a doctor and go in for a physical, and when the doctor was done with all the various procedures he needed to perform, he asked me if I had any particular health concerns. I really only had one, but I didn’t see the point in mentioning it, I didn’t really think there was anything he would be able to do for me anyway.

Buy yourself a .NET Celebrity (and the $ is for a good cause)

Jan 24, 2005 1 min.

An A-List of .NET consultants, including my friend Joel Semeniuk amongst others, are auctioning themselves off on EBay… with the proceeds going towards disaster relief in Indonesia. Check out the details (and the full list of folks) here;

Darth Potato Head… very odd.. but that won’t stop me from ordering one :)

Jan 23, 2005 1 min.

I’m not sure if this is already over-hyped, but I just heard about it today so please forgive me if everyone is talking about this already 🙂 ** Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater **

Added support for the rel=”nofollow” attribute to my .Text installation…

Jan 20, 2005 1 min.

Google and various blog software vendors recently announced a method to deter comment spam by reducing its benefit to the spammer… it sounds like a pretty good idea, so I updated my installation of .Text to use this new attribute in the comment section by adding just a single line within comments.cs: namelink.Attributes[“rel”] = “nofollow”; … now, let’s just hope it works 😉 I think I might enhance this a bit later, adding the idea of approved comments that don’t get this attribute for their links, since I see no reason why a non-spammer’s comment shouldn’t give them google-juice.

Don’t let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Jan 18, 2005 1 min.

Just saw this, a whole list of MiniMac sized PCs…. maybe Mac folks would say it isn’t about the size, it is about the experience… but I’m sure the size matters to some degree.