I was at a friend’s house a few nights ago and he had on the winter olympics. What the heck kinda sporting event is curling?! Next thing you know they’re going to have hop-scotch as an event.

Once upon a time there was a shepherd tending his sheep at the edge of a country road.
A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, and Jovial Swiss wrist watch, gets out and asks the shepherd:
“If [...]

This is one of my favorite demotivator posters

It may take months, years or even decades to get where you want to go. Yet you can begin moving toward that goal in an instant.
You are where you are right now, and nothing will change the path you’ve already traveled. Yet you can most certainly and most completely change where you are going.
Choose to [...]

It’s been a few days now since I last posted and I want to get into a regular schedule of posting whatever comes to mind.
We have acquired a dedicated server for HWG and have been moving the site over. I recently upgraded the forums to the latest version (after telling Michael to get it [...]

I was just remembering back to when I first got on the internet in 1994 and how I got interested in website design and development. I had my first domain name back in ‘95. I remember going to school and in my spare time during class I would get on the teacher’s computer [...]

The anti-spyware solution from Microsoft that is being included in Windows Vista known as “Windows Defender”, and previously known as “Windows AntiSpyware” has reached Beta 2 stages, and is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack [...]

I’ve been quite busy lately.  Just had another upgrade done to the house, and am busy with work along with the MBA classes so I don’t have as much time as I would like to post.  If you haven’t heard already, Michael, Maarten, and I have started MicrosoftHound.com. A website devoted to all things Microsoft: [...]

I took some photos of smoke rising from the fires close-by here in California with my Treo 650 today.  There’re @ Flickr.  What sucks is the ash flakes are flying all over the place..gotta wash my car soon or they’d stick to it

Why do hotels sometimes charge for internet access and sometimes don’t? My take is that most hotels figure that it’s mostly business travelers that use the internet and therefore it’s the guests’ companies who are footing the bill and since it’s a business necessity for them, the companies pay, no matter what the daily rate. [...]