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January 2004 - Posts

Inboxer? You suck.

posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:43 PM by rrinaldi
Inboxer has taken it upon themselves to use the comments as my blog as advertising. This is a letter for them. Read More
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Lorem Ipsum is good for you.

posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:40 AM by rrinaldi
Ever need some gibberish to fill in a site with?  How about pages of it?  Meet the Lorem Ipsum generator! Read More
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Joel hates Microsoft, .NET and kicks puppies.

posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:35 AM by rrinaldi
Not really, but headlines are for attention grabbing. :) Joel Spolsky brings up a few good points about .NET.  I don't necessarily agree with them, but hey it's a free world and without a contrarian point of view, advances can't be made.  I'll agree Read More
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A Sneak Preview of Visual C# Whidbey

posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:57 PM by rrinaldi
Via EricGu I took a look at the "Sneak Preview of Visual C# Whidbey". Some of the things I'm looking forward to the most? Easy: The debugging enhancements!  Be sure to check out the Enhanced Datatips, Visualizers, and the Design Time Expression Read More
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.Text magic!

posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:03 PM by rrinaldi
Sorry that the site has been serving up an error page for the last 12 hours or so when clicking on a post to view the comments.  I just got home and decided to investigate the error and after setting the custom error setting in the web.config file Read More
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Digital Cameras: Opinions wanted

posted Monday, January 26, 2004 9:34 PM by rrinaldi
Sunday I was doing some non-tech work at the NBC5 Health and Fitness Expo at Navy Pier in Chicago for Home Spa Sessions and during a quick break I was walking around outside just looking out at Lake Michigan and the skyline.  I've lived Read More
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Run Lola Run

posted Monday, January 26, 2004 9:22 PM by rrinaldi
Friday I sat down and watched “Run Lola Run”, a great flick if enjoy watching people play with time. :) The plot is outlined simply as “Lola runs. To save her boyfriend's life.“ I know I'm late to the party, seeing how this movie Read More
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I passed the test.

posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:31 PM by rrinaldi
So I have this new budget setup right?  Got Microsoft Money 2004 (which rocks BTW, I will write a review as soon as I spend some more time with it (Get it? Spend?  HAHA, I crack myself up)) running, budget budgeting, accounts accounting, Read More
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Topsy Turvy World: Sun loves Intel and Microsoft

posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:19 PM by rrinaldi
So what is going on over at Sun?  My world is getting flipped on it's head. Scott McNealy admits that Sun made a mistake in underestimating the strength of the IA-32 instruction set and the Intel 32-bit chip in general. Combined with Sun's move to Read More
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Posting more and looking for bloggers

posted Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:44 PM by rrinaldi
Up until this point the Geekdojo has been primarily focused on .NET and other Microsoft technologies.  From now on though, the aggregated blog and it's feed will still remain focused, but the individual bloggers will have freedom to post whatever Read More
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New happy fun list

posted Friday, January 16, 2004 4:54 PM by rrinaldi
The 2004 List of Banished Words has just been published. Can I request that we bring back "Da Bomb"? Also as a Chicagoan I should point out that there is no Frank and Johnnie show on WGN.  There is a wonderful "Steve and Johnnie" show though. Read More
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Office 2003 causing reboots?

posted Friday, January 16, 2004 2:56 PM by rrinaldi
Richard seems to be having a hell of a time with Office 2003.  Every time he opens Outlook his machine spontaneously reboots.  Anybody out there experience anything similar?  Anybody know how to fix it? Read More
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Share your OPML SDK

posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:06 AM by rrinaldi
Scripting.com has posted a SDK for it's new Share Your OPML site.  I would really like to see some aggregators include some functionality that automagically updates feeds.scripting.com whenever you add a new feed.  This functionality isn't available Read More
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Upgrade?

posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:46 PM by rrinaldi
If this appears then the site has been upgraded.  I still need to fix the aggregated blog page, but other than that the site seems to be functioning quite well.  If anything seems to be out of whack or straight up borked, drop me a line and Read More
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Want to rename the Junk E-mail folder in Outlook 2003?

posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:38 PM by rrinaldi
Well you can't. I just upgraded to Office 2003 today and so far I like it.  Outlook 2k3 is fan-freakin'-tastic.  Almost a lickable interface. (The shnozberries taste like shnozberry.) Since I use SpamBayes for Spam filtering I had a folder Read More
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Updates and upgrades

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 9:55 PM by rrinaldi
This is just a note to inform you that the dojo will be under going some minor maintenance in approx. 24 hours.  If things go wonky, don't act like you weren't warned. :) When the site comes back, it will have been upgraded to .Text .95 goodness.  I'm Read More
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Reviews and status reports

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 5:23 PM by rrinaldi
How do you do status reviews? At the office we currently have: 1.) Weekly status reports - These are 1 or 2 line synopsis's of what we are currently doing, estimated completion date, any extraneous info that needs to be bubbled up the management chain Read More
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.NET, dasBlog and Slashdot.

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 5:07 PM by rrinaldi
Scott Hanselman has a good writeup covering the Slashdotting that he received. From what I've always read Slashdotting seems to occur when you are limited by one of the following: Small pipe Large downloads Underpowered webserver As long as you're Read More
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MySQL == Real database?

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 4:57 PM by rrinaldi
In a press release today, MySQL AB announced that MySQL now supports Stored Procedures. *Cough* WHAT? It seems that MySQL will finally support Stored Procedures.  Also added in is server side cursor support, enhanced portability and migration. This Read More
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Tap. Tap. Is this thing on?

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 4:51 PM by rrinaldi
Wow, its been quite awhile since I've posted anything.  Unlike Rory, I have been on a hiatus.  This one wasn't really self-imposed but more of a I was “Really-Really-Really Busy”TM so I was unable to complete my bloggy duties.  I apologize for this and Read More
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