The Political Star Wars Connection

The Political Star Wars Connection

Is John Kerry Darth Vadar ? or is John Edward Luke Skywalker ?
An how about GW as Han Solo ?

Operation Free Speech

George W. Bush's 50 greatest accomplishments
Its getting harder and harder to keep him in office.

Yahoo! News - 'The Last Starfighter', the Musical, Beams Down Into World Premiere in NYC

OK Its official. I'm getting old. Movies from my childhood are being remade, Revenge of the Nerds, or being converted into Musicals.
Yahoo! News - 'The Last Starfighter', the Musical, Beams Down Into World Premiere in NYC

'Star Trek' Actor Doohan Receives Star

'Star Trek' Actor Doohan Receives Star
Scotty gets his star.

Farscape is Back

Apple's trailer website is now hosting the trailer for the upcoming FARSCAPE mini-series THE PEACEKEEPER WARS. Set directly after the final episode of the regular series, the four-hour mini wraps up all the dangling loose threads and also sets in motion a chain of events that will lead to open war between the human-looking Peacekeepers and the lizard-like Scarrans. The first part of the show will air October 17 on Sci Fi Channel.


Click here to witness the return of John Crichton.

Also check out http://ChicagoScapers.com

Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football season is upon us again. So far I’m in 4 leagues, like last year. Three on yahoo sports with computer draft, and one on http://www.fanball.com/ with a live draft.

I’m also running a pick-em league on yahoo. If you want in send me an email (in my profile), I’ll send you back an invite.

I’m still devising strategy. The live draft is a keeper league and I’m going to inherit someone else’s team.
I read an interesting article on fanball.com about doing a reverse draft. If your deep into the draft order all the good backs are going to be gone. So why not break with mantra and go WR or QB first. You could even pick up a good WR/QB combo. Dante and Randy were my sweet picks last year. I even had some luck with Kitna and Johnson.

Control Execution Lifecycle

Control Execution Lifecycle
Good cheat sheet on knowing how your asp.net page will execute

I've been Busy in August

Its been a busy month in August, so far.
I've bought and sold a house and preparing to move at the end of the month. I am so glad I don't move that often. My brother-in-law, Vinny, has sold his house. My sister, Sandy, has sold her house in Cincinnati.

I've started a new project working on ASP.Net in VB.Net. The downside is that its an out of town project. So I'm spending 4 days a week in Milawaukee, WI while Melissa preps for the move.

I'm also catching as much of the Olympics I can. Its tough to watch a delayed broadcast on NBC when you already know the results.

842242 - Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

842242 - Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2

if any of your programs stop working after installing sp2 check this list.

Whitbey Commands in Visual Studio 2003

Whitbey Commands in Visual Studio 2003
In case you can't install Visual Studio 2005, or if you've used it and have to swap back and forth
you can still get some of the functionality in Visual Studio 2003!

Happy Coding