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For those of you that have asked, here's what's different behind the curtain on the new site... I decided to distract myself with geek work on the personal site back during the first weekend of the NFL (a full three months into my blogging hiatus).  I'd been using .Text to power the site since it's launch in summer 2004, but since ...

I came across another obscure issue in T-SQL last week.  While throwing together a quick query, I came across a scenario where I needed to return a number formatted with commas and no decimal places.  I know most would say that logically you'd handle formatting in the calling application, but in this case it really needed to be ...

Some of the stuff on my radar screen the past couple of weeks... Local/RegionalSteve Eugster's Blog - A local lawyer and former politician. Got Mayo? Can Somebody Call a Wildlife Biologist AND an Electrician? Last-second shot gives UConn Beats Gonzaga for Maui title Montana and Eastern Washinton Fall in I-AA PlayoffsProgramming/ComputersUsing ...

Several of you seemed to enjoy my Links of the Week post a couple weeks ago.  Since it's a fairly easy thing to produce I'll try to make it a semi-regular thing.  I can't promise once a week, but we'll see how the rebranded Link-O-Rama goes.  Enjoy... Programming/Computers/Technology IntelliSense XML Files for ...

As usual, I've been too busy to blog lately, but I thought I'd try something new; I'll try posting a list of some of the things that caught my eye during my online travels during the past week or so.  Enjoy... Programming/Computers/Technology8 display computerPromptSQL Intellisense style help for Query ...

I've been doing quite a bit of skinning work lately, and debugging CSS and XHTML can be extremely tedious and frustrating.  Last night I happened upon a link to the beta version of Microsoft's new IE Developer Toolbar.  It sounded interesting enough, so I thought I'd check it out. To exercise it a bit, I ...

Raymond Lewallen wrote a nice piece today about the new INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators in the upcoming SQL Server 2005.  Microsoft is making T-SQL devgelopment easier all the time!

I'm trying to clean out a bunch of old links in my “Blog Fodder” category on Furl.  I'm not sure where I got it from, but if you're a computer geek, you'll appreciate this great list of Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument.

I know it's short notice, but keeping in mind that Microsoft's support for VB 6.0 is coming to an end, REAL Software is offering REALbasic 5.5 Standard for free by April 15, 2005. I'd like to think that in my spare time I'll be able to spend some time giving it a thorough once-over.

Targeted Advertising ConsortiumAs evidenced by my infrequent blog updates the past couple of months, it's been obvious that I've been extremely busy with work of late.  Last week we officially launched the Targeted Advertising Consortium (TAC), a partnership between CADwire.net and five other CAD industry sites, to co-promote ...