Archive for June, 2005

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a new club – treading water.

I bought my daughter a new club today. It was a Pitching Wedge (really just a W) that is not much longer than some chopsticks I have seen. The cool thing about the us golf clubs is that they are 25% lighter. My wife and I carried her current 9/W into the store to compare [...]

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Golfing with my Daughter

I went golfing with my daughter and wife today. Well really to the driving range and my wife just watches since she is pregnant. This was Kristin’s 4th time at the range and she is progressing very well. Her clubs are too long for her, so we will be fixing that soon enough.
Here is a [...]

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Finally Done – graduation

Well I finally received my diploma for my MBA. They remebered to note the distinction
I have it framed and invitations went out. The ceremony is at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. MAP
If you were invited you have an invitation. No evites or anything like that. I will post a picture of my [...]

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Whats all the hubbub Bub?

Tell me who said that…
“What are you reading or listening to?” I was just asked…
Well I am listening to “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy… I am reading a book on the Masons for personal and for professional I am reading “Smart Choices : A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions” – it is required [...]

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Wow.. Sometimes having too much time is good!

Well I have been able to learn to fly a remote control airplane fairly well. I could take off, land, do some stuff in the air etc.
As a kid a raced radio controlled cars for several years. At one point heading to Colorado from North Dakota to partcipate in a race. I would spend many [...]

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You know when it is time to move to Canada?

http://www.rocketboom.com/video/rb_05_jun_15.wmv
Check it out at about 1:40. This dude needs to move to Canada where his country could support him. Not only that but this particular event was to support troups of previous wars. These guys arent here making the decisions to go to war or not and most of them are retired.
Watch further to [...]

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Sometimes people do odd things.

I have created some odd things in my life to which you might as “why?”. Sometimes it is to learn, sometimes it is to play. Sometimes it is because there was nothing to do or drink but buildsomething dumb and beer.
Anyway I have run across two people that have similar but different odd inventions. First [...]

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Updates to the code at kennedy’s site.

I had a problem with Kennedys site today. Being the 10th where I have the site hosted the sort of the entrys put the entry for today below several that were earlier in the month like on th 8th…
Well the problem was in the code. As I say in class the problem was with something [...]

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SPOT on at DeVry in Mirimar

I wonder if Joe Friona is still over at DeVry in Mirimar….
But for those of you at DeVry in Phoenix it was up to a student group to get this going!
http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426797.aspx
Why dont we have a Microsoft Student group in Phoenix. I remember when the IEEE society was up and running they had many great speakers [...]

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Why should I be sent to the PDC?

Why should Jason Huber be sent to the PDC? A contest from the guys at Channel 9 asks. Well that is how it sounded to me when I asked myself anyway.
Not only have I proven the ways that I can share information using the posts from my latest azgroups.com conference, but I am immersed [...]

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VS.NET 2005 release date

Looks like November 7th.
http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2005/06/07/426384.aspx
Not that this changes anything. You could have installed the BETA now for a month or so and have been using it. I haven’t either really.
Web parts are cool though. I am not sure how they will fit into my site. I see them more for a portal into the web or [...]

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start.com new page and link

Microsoft released a new start.com page this morning. I wanted in, but you need to answer a quiz first. Although I appreciate the effort, I also would have like to have seen a little more protection.
Anyway here is the link:
http://www.start.com/myw3b
How did I get the answers? Well I figured all but one out using Google. But [...]