January 2007 Blog Posts
This viral tagging thing must be almost burned out since it finally got down to little old me. 5 things you don't know about me:I would actually leave development and become a science and tech teacher if there was any money in it (there isn't).I dyed my hair green in college, got a tattoo of a dragon on my shoulderblade, and was a skater punk type. (Of course now I look like your average nerd)I can will myself to fall asleep anytime, anywhere, within 3-5 minutes.I took 8 years of classical piano when I was young. I recently acquired a piano...
Now if that title isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is. Anyways, this is something mostly for my benefit because I conveniently forget about this little trick and then have to go rooting through my code to remember and I'd rather have Google index it for me. =)So I have this nifty little status message user control in the master page of my current project. It basically leverages a repeater to show a list of status messages with icons next to them based upon the type/severity. The idea is to have a method in the master page that takes a...
Some humerous, some serious. Here we go!YouTube goes down in history as one of worst business decisions everAfter the **AA machines chew it up and spit it out, YouTube goes the way of the napster and other content providers before it. It will also then hold the record as one of the most expensive acquisitions ever. Vista is released, Slashdot kiddies claim "Year of the Penguin" regardlessUp until, and shortly after the release of Vista, at minimum there will be 10 "articles" a week claiming that Vista is flawed, Linux is better, and that Microsoft is the Sux0r. In the first...