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Adventures with the Phone Company

Fun and adventure erupts when I try to cancel the land line to my house, and I learn some crazy stuff. [More]

By Hank on 5. September 2008 10:22 | Comments (0)
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Todd Wells Back in the Olympics

Just surfed by Todd's site ( for the first time in forever ) and caught wind of this little tidbit. Looks like he's back on the US Olympic team.  Very Nice. [imgbullet]ToddWells.png (15.71 kb)[/imgbullet]

By Hank on 16. July 2008 10:18 | Comments (0)
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Daily Tuneage

Found this little gem tonite via Twitter, I give you....the Daily Tuneage! I have mispelled Tuneage as Tunage 3 times now....is it just me, or is that another of those odd english words?

By hank on 3. April 2008 14:21 | Comments (0)
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Linq Pad

Found this little gem on the web this morning, a project called LinqPad.  It's a small app that will let you hook directly to a database and run Linq for SQL queries against it, without having to write any code or any sort of wrapper project.  It's an awesome tool for practicing,... [More]

By hank on 26. December 2007 04:53 | Comments (0)
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Good Explanation of Extension Methods

Found a good explanation of extension methods in .Net 3.0 on MSDN today.  It looks like a pretty easy way of extending your code in an intuitive fashion. Case in Point:  You have a 3rd party set of objects, and you want to send them out across the web to your page as Json strings, ... [More]

By hank on 13. December 2007 02:43 | Comments (0)
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CharterFishingGuide.com

I have been working on CharterFishingGuide.com for the last few days, quite honestly I'm finding it difficult to get engaged.  It's not really as sexy as some of the other work that I do, but I have hopes for a commercial success down the road.  It seems that there is a bit of a ... [More]

By hank on 2. December 2007 16:12 | Comments (0)
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VS2008 Tutorials

For those of you out there, like me, who are already running VS2008 in all it's glorious newness...here is a great set of presentations from Microsoft which will help you wrap your head around things.  They are pulled from the VS2008 Training Kit, and will fill your holiday weekend will all... [More]

By hank on 22. November 2007 06:13 | Comments (0)
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Amie Street

Free Music, like free as in beer, and free of DRM free!  Wooo Hoo! My day just gets better with the finding of http://amiestreet.com/.  Heres the deal, they price music based on popularity, so once it's new, and unpopular, it is FREE (as in beer), and then when it gets reccommended ... [More]

By hank on 7. November 2007 02:58 | Comments (0)
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PhotoSynth Tech from TED

I caught this clip while surfing this morning.  Simply freaking amazing, I'm seriously in awe of the things we can accomplish as developers and inventors.  I love being in this industry.  In any case, this is from Microsoft, and it's an app called Sea Dragon.

By hank on 1. November 2007 04:21 | Comments (0)
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The Water Hobo

It's happening, the geeks are on the offensive.  I Love this! WaterHobo.com

By hank on 17. October 2007 06:40 | Comments (0)
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