Category Archives: Miscellaneous

I was browsing YouTube when I happened to notice that an aquaintance of mine, Ryan Lindstrom, has a YouTube channel.  So I thought I would have a look at what he might have posted.  There were only two videos, but … Continue reading →

On Saturday, 4 June 2011, they held the Nth Portland Code Camp.  I don’t know what N is equal to, but it was the 5th one I’ve attended.  It was quite good, all things considered, although I think I prefer … Continue reading →

My Ham Radio Technician license class practice exam app — that horrendous bug fixed — is now available in the marketplace. Actually, it was back in the Marketplace a few days ago, but I’m just now getting around to mentioning it.  If … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I got my new device via Fedex, thanks to the kindness and diligence of Chris Koenig, MS Developer Evangelist! I’ve been trying to get the attention of someone in the Mothership to beg and plead for a gratis WP7 … Continue reading →

I’ve just hooked this blog up with Facebook, and incidentally, unhooked my technical blog (https://cyberherbalist.wordpress.com).  The unhooking of my technical blog is primarily because I’m pretty sure it is waaaaay too technical for the venue.  How many people want to … Continue reading →

I just finished a knock-down drag-out battle against my own code.  And I won.  Finally.  Quite frankly, this was completely unexpected behavior, and I wasn’t sure if it was native behavior or introduced by something I did, or something that … Continue reading →

Well, that day has come and I finally buckled down and filed.  I use Turbo Tax, and as it has for several years, it enabled me to get this painful exercise over with the minimum of fuss.  Now, while I … Continue reading →

I initially posted a non-technical, music-related piece here earlier today, but then I decided that I wanted this blog to remain on-message as far as technology is concerned, so that post is gone.  However, I will continue to want to … Continue reading →

An interesting new construct in .NET 4 is the BigInteger. You may recall that the max value of the following integer types are: Int16.MaxValue = 32,767 Int32.MaxValue = 2,147,483,647 Int64.MaxValue = 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Now, it won’t be often that you will … Continue reading →

Word has come that Microsoft isn’t going to produce any more Zune devices, due to lackluster demand.  Well, though this is no surprise, I am saddened. I have a Zune HD, and I really like it.  I bought my wife … Continue reading →