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This is the last full week of training before I head to Orlando. My last double digit run was the 12 miles I did on Sunday and it felt great even though it was on a treadmill. I have found out that through this training that I can do a lot...
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I was checking this fun little video out of a talk delivered by Jennifer 8. Lee, and she talks about the mysteries of American Chinese Food. I found out an interesting fact that in the United States there are more “Chinese” restaurants than there...
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So the only question I have this week is when should I run on Thursday, I have three choices: Wake up before the kids and get my run in early Wait until the kids crater around 3 and get the run in the afternoon Give myself a present and skip it My preference...
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As I was on the tread mill this morning I saw this highlight. I remember hearing about this. So here is the situation there is a 1:30 left and Plano East is down to John Tyler by 10. The play by play call is priceless. So coach what...
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I just discovered that Doritos is sponsoring a free game called Dash of Destruction for download. The game is quite fun and I am sure my kiddos love it. The game is a fun little racing game. From the website: Doritos' Dash of Destruction...
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As you may recall I announced a contest Keith and I were having for MVP’s and creating a screencast that shows PHP integration with IIS. Unfortunately we did not receive any entries. That's right, 0, nada, zilch and for you developers...
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Every so often you watch a TV show and think I know that person. Well My buddy Zain, and believe or not the person who hired me for my first job in Texas got a great chance to do an interview on a Fox news station in Houston. He talked about...
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4 weeks to go and somewhere along the line I messed up the math in calculating my weeks left for the run. I am 4 weeks out but somehow I have only 3 weeks left on the plan I have been planning. So what to do, well I will just run a good week...
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Does anyone have a spare 10k that they want to lend me? Well if you do then I can buy the Kaleidescape System . This is a fantastic gadget that will allow me to digitize my 300 + DVD collection (Including the complete seasons of Buffy and...
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Tomorrow I will share a gift that will hopefully keep your loved ones out of your dog house, click on the picture to see what I mean: Share this post: Read More...
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I was checking out, Chris Koenig blog, who is one of the developer evangelists I work with, and I saw this great post: Windows 7 Beta 1 for MDC Attendees! In a nutshell all you need to do is attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you...
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This book of the month was a book I read based on a recommendation by Keith and Kai . The book: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell is an eye opening account about...
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One of my regular attendees from the Louisville made a wonderful blog post comparing TouchFlo and Spd, he provides some interesting feedback and overall a good post. Take a look at the post here: TouchFLO 3D vs. Spb Mobile Shell - why I think Spb got...
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Happy Monday and I am glad it is Monday. Last weeks schedule was the hardest to date and I was able to get through it. It was a total of 50 miles for the week with 30 of the miles on Saturday and Sunday but I made it! Surprisingly my...
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I was browsing one of my favorite sites espn.com and noticed they have a new online show called Mayne Street starring Kenny Mayne. If you like his humor and want to have a good laugh check out his show it is pretty funny. I have included my...
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I caught up with Pete LePage again, this in time in Barcelona. More importantly I caught up with him on my own turf at TechEd among all the wonderful IT Pros. Now he was the stranger in the strange land. We had a great conversation around...
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Last weekend was a great training weekend. I had a great run on Saturday and I ended up running 10 miles instead of the 6. Thanks Larry and Brian, I had a much better round trip run, I was basically running block to block. Helped break...
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I picked this month’s book on the way out of the store at the checkout lane. It is an eye catching title: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else . At first I thought it might been a book about the...
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Hey all you MVP rockstars are you out there? Are you working hard on putting together your screencasts to win some cool prizes? Remember the contest we started: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB? ...
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Previously I posted an article about how a divorcee killed her ex-hubby’s avatar. Well now it seems people love their avatar wives more than their real counterparts: UK couple in real-life divorce Share this post: Read More...
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Hola! Sorry I missed last weeks post but I was way out of town in Barcelona! I was asked to deliver a breakout session at IT Forum in Barcelona, it was my honor to do so. It was a lot of fun and my training took a back seat to this opportunity...
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Keith and I got to go to PDC well we decided to chat about what we saw after they announce Windows 7 launch: Share this post: Read More...
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Well the training is hitting the road for the next two weeks. This is a fun thing but also my travel schedule is going to prevent me from getting my long runs in for the next two weeks. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It is a good...
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I know most of you are like me and not developers, but wanted to get your opinion. Personally I think the new logo is Jazzy, what do you think? So what is the bottom line for the change? The original .NET logo was designed just before...
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Hello everyone, I was a bit of a stranger in a strange land today. I am attending PDC with my fellow IT Pro guru, Keith Combs. You might be wondering, why are we here. Well we decided to crash the party and we were able to get in the...
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