February 2007 Entries
I thought I'd done this when Bill was kind enough to tag me, but I just found this post tucked away in my "drafts" folder... I know this is well beyond the life of the original meme, but I went through the trouble of writing it, so here are five things you probably don't know about me: I wrote my senior thesis in college on the role of etiquette in Tom Sawyer and Little Women. (I actually double majored in college and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in American Studies and Computer Science. This may have been the...
Well, I have to say that in some ways it's great to be back at work, and in some ways, not so much. Everything's going great at home, and now it's time to get back into the swing of things. Two links for people who might have missed them (but I doubt many people did): A series by Scott Wisniewski on extension methods in VB9 A post by Avner Aharoni on XML changes in the Feb CTP of VB9 More as I dig through my email!
Being on parental leave and not that up-to-date on the world, I wasn't aware of the disappearance of Jim Gray until this morning, when I opened my New York Times and saw a familiar face, much to my surprise. (The last and only other time that happened, someone who was in my class in college had won a Pulitzer.) I don't really know Jim well, but have crossed paths with him more than a few times in the past several years. The latest was my trip to Japan for the launch of VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005, where I did...