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I put the finishing touches on Lab 2 late yesterday afternoon and then decided to take a brain break. I went flying with a friend who had a brand electric new plane he wanted to try out. It flew beautifully, and I took an electric plane of my own: Great Planes’ twin-engine DC-3. I had…

As an R/C airplane enthusiast, I sometimes hang out in the discussion forums at www.rcuniverse.com. One of the things you’ll find there is crash videos. Check out this video of guys toasting their expensive gas-turbine R/C jets. Hurts just to watch…

Whew! I’ve completed a draft of the slides and demos that go with my ASP.NET 2.0 course, and I just put the finishing touches on the first of nine labs and turned it over to my reviewers. I’m exhausted, but now’s no time to think about burn-out because there’s lots of work left to do–and…

Will somebody please write a tool that dumps a SQL script that not only creates a SQL Server database, but recreates its content as well? I spent hours yesterday writing a similar tool, but it works with one specific database, not ANY database. It’s a pain in the neck writing a SQL script that initializes…

John Robbins and I were chatting the other day and agreed that it’s not just spammers and virus writers that are threatening to render e-mail unusable these days: it’s also the network admins who configure mail servers to send bounce-back messages informing senders that their e-mail was rejected. Don’t these folks know that viruses and spammers use…

There it is, folks: Jeffrey Richter’s SECOND BLOG ENTRY EVER!

I enjoy the Amazing Race too. If I get picked for Survivor, I don’t know what I’d do. I don’t think I’d last the plane ride to wherever. I’m a 100% city boy. Sometimes, living in Seattle is pushing it for me. I’d love living in New York or London.

I’m stoked because tonight is the premiere of Amazing Race 5. I like reality TV because it’s mindless, and I need something mindless after working all day. Amazing Race is fun because of all the cool places they visit. Richter doesn’t know it, but I sent an application with his name on it to CBS…

I didn’t know Jeffrey was such a Rush fan. One of my favorite albums of all time is Rush 2112. I still have a vinyl copy of it I bought in high school. It’s one of the few albums or CDs that I like every song on. Another is Michelle Branch’s The Spirit Room. Rush’s drummer…

I received the RTM bits for the upcoming Whidbey beta yesterday and installed them last night. This morning I installed the documentation. Save for a glitch that required me to modify the docs’ Setup.ini file, the install went smoothly. The build process that Microsoft uses to produce Whidbey drops is very complicated. The doc folks…

Well, I’ve had several people ask me to start blogging and I’m finally breaking down and doing it. Recently, I started getting into RSS and I am much more of a believer in blogs now since new entries are pushed down to people who care about my comings and goings.   Since August of 2003,…

I’m in crunch mode right now writing a 3-day ASP.NET Whidbey course for Microsoft. The due date is less than three weeks away, and while I’ve written a ton of content over the past two months, a lot of work remains to be done. It doesn’t help that I’m shooting at a moving target, but…