Hope Dave is over his Pneumonia… in time for Halloween. Sucks to be sick…
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Pneumonia for a couple of weeks?
Pneumonia for a couple of weeks? Sounds real bad Dave… Wow.
Grant posts pictures of their new Toyota
Like the look of Grant’s new car. Interesting that they got a Toyota – Jubak on moneycentral.msn.com just wrote about the future big 3 – toyota, chrysler, and maybe hyundai. Didn’t realize how bad off american auto companies were, but it looks like they’ve been losing on every car sale the last little while. I wondered …
Colleen’s midterms
From Mom "She finished her Anatomy midterm today and is REALLY excited! There were 85 questions and another 4 bonus questions for a total of 89 questions. She only missed 3 questions on the entire test. She tied with one other girl for the top score of 86/85!!!" Congratulations! 1:12 PM Updated with more details …
My Day Job
The presentations from PDC for WinFS just got posted. Checkout: WinFS Overview by Shishir: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/pdc05/DAT/DAT209.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1 WinFS Data centric applications using WPF and WinForms by Ramesh: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/pdc05/DAT/DAT310.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1 WinFS and ADO.NET: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/pdc05/DAT/DAT312.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1 Unless you are a developer, nothing more than the first 2 will be interesting. Fun times…
Grant and Rachel got a New Car
Very nice car. Though I don’t know how much of a trend you bucked – there are an aweful lot of Toyota Sienna’s around this area as well! New Car Well, we’ve come out of the dark ages of transportation. We are now an official 2-car family. To add insult to injury our second car is …
Talking about Congrats on Jack’s new calling
Hey, if you know how to finish a day or two early, I’ve got to tell me 🙂 Congrats on Jack’s new calling Now I suspect that Rachel and Aubrey will have much more to talk about during December and January. Although I suppose I could learn a trick or two and somehow finish a …
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Blizzard Entertainment Uses Spyware to Verify EULA Compliance
This is absolutely shocking that a company would think this is okay – Blizzard writes a popular game, World of Warcraft, that includes a program called the "warden" that does a bit more than you might expect: I watched the warden sniff down the email addresses of people I was communicating with on MSN, the …
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New Calling in Church
I was released last week from work in Elders Quorum last week and called to be the financial clerk. So far, it seems like a much easier job. Though for someone who is nearly paperless at work and even at home, the amount of physical paper work is shocking. I can see the purpose behind …
Wireless Broadband almost here?
I wonder if it’ll do any better than some other failed solutions… time will tell. The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Best Buy to sell Clearwire service