One of my biggest anguishes I've had about getting hit with a herniated disc has been my inability to participate in my town's annual half marathon. But as I recovered from this affliction and started to run again I began to think that perhaps my fears on that front were premature and I could at — Continue reading »
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Error
📆 September 13, 2008
Last week I stumbled upon this Gmail Blog post mentioning that IE6 (Internet Explorer version 6) now supports some of the GUI enhancements offered by Gmail. But in order to exploit these enhancements, one had to apply a critical update to IE6 from Microsoft. An interesting point cited by this post was that Google and — Continue reading »
DNS Vulnerability
📆 August 28, 2008
While programming is my main focus at my company, one of my side jobs at work is networking. I have no complaints as I'm curious and interested in the inner workings of computer networks. Our IT department handles most of the networking tasks, but I usually find myself getting involved in setting up connectivity in — Continue reading »
Herniated Disc, Six Months Later
📆 August 13, 2008
It's been nearly 6 months since I was diagnosed with a herniated disc. During that time I have had to make some lifestyle changes, but looking back, the adjustments haven't been as drastic as I might have feared initially. Or perhaps I am now just used to dealing with the condition. When I was in — Continue reading »
Yahoo Slurp Versus Googlebot
📆 July 19, 2008
As a part of my early morning routine at my job I scan a daily notification on our web site visitor patterns, specifically looking for abusive or abnormal page requests to identify rogue hosts. I wrote the program years ago, but it has become one of my most effective tools in identifying abuse. No surprise — Continue reading »
The ANWR Oil Debate
📆 July 7, 2008
Lately I've seen a number of Web sites and emails exhorting Americans to press their government to explore for oil in a parcel of land in ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the northeast corner of Alaska. The ANWR debate is nothing new and it was a hot topic back in the 1970's oil — Continue reading »
RSS/ATOM SyndicationFeed in .NET 3.5 Framework
📆 June 29, 2008
Among some of the new classes introduced in Version 3.5 of the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) were the syndication-related classes. While other technologies such as LINQ, extension methods and lambda expressions have been grabbing most of the attention the new syndication classes also deserve a nod. Part of the System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace the classes offer — Continue reading »
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