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Entries for September, 2008

Sorry State Of My Blogroll

Doing some “Fall Cleanup” type stuff, I decided to hit the links in my BlogRoll to see the last time some of them have been updated. Boy, surprised me.
What happened? I don’t know, but the state of most of my buddies blogs is in total neglect.

Aaron Ballman - updates regularly, really techie, mostly Real Basic [...]

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Big Change #3 - New Job

Recently, in May 2008, I took a position with Stratagem. Though the summer I worked for 2 places as a consultant, KHS in Waukesha, and The Dept. Of Regulation and Licensing (DRL) in Madison.
A little history. I was full time for W3i around 2 years, and then went independent for about a year, then as [...]

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Big Change #2 - Baby

Yes, that’s right. We are having a baby. A baby girl (they think, you never know!) due February 5th. Everything is going along just fine. I am very excited!!
We haven’t done much as far as getting baby stuff yet. We hit some garage sales and got some neutral clothes for really cheap before we [...]

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Big Change #1 - Moving

Since moving to Madison, WI back in November of 2007, not much has changed as far as the living situation. The apartment we are in is ok, and I was planning on not moving for a while. I just counted today and I have moved like 12 times since 1998. Yikes.
The problem is.. our apartment [...]

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Why isn’t there a Web 2.0 Ajax Visual Studio?

Was thinking about this today. You can now write Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations and the like all online (Google Docs, Zoho, etc, etc). You can record video straight to websites through your webcam, you can video conference directly through the web.
Visual Studio in the Cloud:

Why can’t you code directly into the web? [...]

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Browser Wars 08

Now that Google has released its browser, Chrome, that leaves us 4-5 big players in the browser wars.
1) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (download)
2) Mozilla’s Firefox (download)
3) Apple’s Safari (download)
4) Opera’s Opera (Weird - their company name is the same as the browser name) (download)
5) Google’s Chrome (download)
Pretty much everyone has used IE, unless you are [...]

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“Leinie’s” Going Nationwide. Import or Domestic?

Now that I live in Wisconsin, I guess I have to write about this. Going to school at Saint Cloud State, which is a fairly good party school, you do end up going to happy hour now and then. At the bars there, they always have pretty good deals. “1 dollar for Domestic Taps” etc, [...]

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